StoryBoard

Storyboard Analysis

After constructing our storyboard, we ended up changing what we wanted and went for different angles in production. This was because when it came to shooting on location we conjured new inventive ideas. For example our opening shot would have been a close up of our actor’s feet but when it came to filming it ended up being shaky and unprofessional. We came up with an alternative plan to do a long shot in the style of a CCTV camera. This really emphasised the narrow, long corridor and made our shot look far more creative and more genre related.

During production we were often restricted by our environment on location. Sometimes there would be walls or bookcases blocking our way or we could get the angle we wanted. There may have not been enough distance to get the long shot we wanted. So we had to use initiative and improvise on the spot the alternatives. We had a group of three and our casting actors which allowed us for more brain power to come up with alternative routes to filming.

As we went through our production we were constantly coming up with new ideas and although we kept the concept of our storyboard when it came down to editing we really felt like we hadn’t hit the psychedelic genre. This was mended by mashing up shots, in some areas of our video we had the mad hatters in the introduction, and this was also mainly to take away the slow paced and long timing of shots in our video to really make it a music video.

The storyboard however laid a foundation for what was going to happen in our video and gave us connotations to the angles we wanted to use. Not only that but it bought organisation skills into play because we had a storyboard we didn’t end up going on location with no idea of what to do. We got there and we had a visual image of what we aimed to do that needed to be digitally filmed.