Some examples of the pictures that represent the ideas are:
Each member of the group each did storyboards as we all had an idea of what the pop video should look like, ths way we would have lots of shots to choose from. We did lots of performance shots as it is their first video so they need to be seen playing a lot to introduce them.
We talked to the band to see what they wanted to have in the video and discussed our ideas with them. They said they wanted to be a local bend hence we put walking down the streets of guildford in the storyboards. They liked our idea of having it black and white apart from one colour on them however one idea they came up with which we had to explain that is not possiboe to do as they wanted to shoot out a window on the train but we would have to get permission for that. We started the storyboards by picking up money from the hat which is to do with them busking which they said they used to do. We got them to be walking in the street as that is how we are going to get the background of their local area which is guildford, which is what the band wanted in the video. We split the storyboards up into performance shots and concept shots, concept shots were the surroundings on the street and going into puddles which would lead to performance which is them performing with coloured rain. The coloured rain was to bring colour into the song as it is "what we see" and we thought that we would gradually bring colour in as we see colour. The puddle shots would usually have the band dissolving in them as we thought that would make a cool effect as it would be different and it is introducing the band. During the song we keep moving from performance to concept. Our performance shots are introducing the band and as it is their song and this is their first video so we have to make them the main view we put more performance than concept. We made point of view shots of each member to introduce them properly and made close ups of the band playing.
To sort the storyboards onto the order in which they are going to be in to match with the time line we got out everyone’s storyboards and then we dropped some and stuck with some and then we sometimes had to draw some at the time as we found we did not have enough shots of what we were looking at for example we had to draw more puddle shots as we found we did not have enough to fill in the time. This took a few lessons to complete and then we had one person in the group to film the storyboards using a tripod and a Sony Mpeg2 SD NXcam, we put each page which had 4 shots on on the wall and filmed it for 10 seconds each which gave us enough time to edit them. We uploaded them all onto final cut server and we had to save the file to the desktop and change the footage to edit proxy so we could edit it.
