Story Board

Before we can even shoot our music video we had to come up with a story board in order to guide us along when we come to film. The story board is mainly cut down into different sections of the song. What I have tried to do is make it easy as possible without the audience getting confused throughout the video. I have decided to keep the consistency of some scenes. This way it can flow easy when we come to film and edit the song. As shown above you ca see that some of these scenarios are not different. This is because they are kind of similar.

Scene 1:
Shot : Extreme Close up on guitar, quick cuts on strings, neck and finger picking (Boyce Avenue & Tyler Ward inspired) 
Lyrics: take me to that place again I wanna feel your breath all on my skin, The moon is creeping through my window pane... silver.

Scene 2:
Shot: Panning through the trees (make sure to catch sun rays) high angles, Slowly coming down to follow on performer, medium shot 
Lyrics: It shines between the spaces in the trees and finds its way right back to me, its like a million states of ecstasy...silver.

Scene 3:
Shot: Establishing turned to middle shot on two performers center stage. 
Lyrics: Oh, oh, oh, I've got a plan, come with me. Take my hand You are what I need tonight, I'm hypnotized  by silver lights

Scene 4:
Shot: Medium, slowly panning &zooming camera into a close up
Lyrics: oh, oh, oh don't question it, just close your eyes and pull me in. I know when something's going right, Oh i'm in love with silver lights. 

Scene 5:
Shot: Long, zooming and panning into a medium. Low angle looking up towards the performer. 
Lyrics: My shoes anticipate my steps, I'm  not sure where i'm going yet I spend a lifetime searching for silver

Scene 6:
Shot: Close up - Super close up on watch on (minute)
Lyrics: Its love and heartbreak all at once, its minutes, days weeks and months

Scene 7: 
Shot Long/medium zooming in on certain aspects of the section
Lyrics: Oh, oh, oh I've got a plan. Come with my, take my hand You are what i need tonight, I'm hypnotized by silver lights. Oh, oh, oh, don't question it Just close your eyes and pull me in I know when something going right, oh i'm in love with silver lights. 

Scene 8: 
Shot: Close up, low angle looking up 
Lyrics: Silver, Silver, Silver lights

Scene 9:
Shot: close up blurred background
Lyrics: Have got my hypontized tonight, I've been broken all my life but you're the one thing that feels right 

Scene 10
Shot: Close up, low angle looking up 
Lyrics: Silver, silver, silver lights have got me hypontized tonight I've been broken all my life but you're the one thing that feels right

Scene 11
Shot: Long/medium shot, Zooming in on certain parts in sections
Lyrics: Oh, oh, oh, I've got a plan come with me take my hand you are what I need tonight I'm hypontised by silver lights, Oh, oh, oh don't question it. Just close your eyes and pull me in I know when something's going right, oh i'm in love with silver lights. 

Scene 12
Shot: close up on performers face - giggle for outro
Lyrics: Silver, Silver, Silver lights x4

When researching into music videos I've actually started to notice that the music video itself has about 5 - 6 maximum different scenes. This is so the audience doesn't get confused throughout the song and keep up to what the singer is actually lip syncing through their lyrics. This is something i wanted to try to do to keep it up with professional standard.

I have broken the song down into its:

• Intro
• Verses
• Pre Chorus
• Chorus
• Bridge
• Outro

All of these aspects create the blocking to a song. With music videos they follow a similar pattern. They tend to use the same scene for each parts... So for instance looking at our story board you can clear see we have chosen to use the field scene whenever there is a chorus. This is because its the most happiest part to the song and beaty part. In addition to this whenever the beat slow down we tend to have a guitar scene.. for instance the bridge sings "Silver, Silver, Silver Lights" - We get the bridge twice in the whole song which is why we have decided to have it with the acoustic guitar sitting down because it adds to the tension just before it reaches its last chorus and outro creating the climax.

We have tried to add in different scenes depending on the kind of lyrics and visuals we would like too see in those situations. For instance Erica Hall had the idea of singing with the acoustic at the beginning to create this chilled relax vibe then slowly getting up and then moving into the next scene ready for the verse. Which is where i had the idea of bringing in our influence and summer vibes of walking and skipping down the streets dancing on the pavement in a free spirited way. Then we both decided on the chorus as being fun and cheesy just having a classic girls day out laughing in the fields.

Our actual story-line is based on the relationship of 2 girls being best friends. It starts off with just 1 girl singing and the casually going to the field to meet her friend for a while and from then on it just gradually builds into this fun friendship with happiness. Their teens their having a laugh and fooling around and being their typical quirky self. We hope after we have filmed the video and come to editing we can get aspects of the footage slow down on those parts. Which will create the more dramatic impact on the video itself.

One video we have seen that can help us create this free spirited vibe our from a band called Cimorelli. They are a group of sisters that sing on You Tube. When we first heard this song myself and Erica didn't know how it would fit in with out kind of theme but after watching it a couple of times we can clearly see that this is the kind of video we need to watch in order to get the bond across to the audience and the freedom and carefree attitude.

Cimorelli - Believe it 

Another video which is great to see the bond between the sisters would be "Made In America". When they hit the chorus is just cheesy and great to see them having fun and just being themselves. Which is exactly what we intend to do in our music video. Again the carefree attitude is something which makes this video have the feel good vibe too it. It makes you smile and want to join in with the fun which is exactly what myself and Erica Hall tend to do.

Cimorelli - Made In America 

Overall I believe that our storyboard/story-line for our chosen song will be good. It's cheesy, it's fun. It seems like its going to be fun to shoot because we can just have fun on camera with the props we are using and the settings. The ideas that we both have our coming out creatively which is why I think our music video may turn out good and how we actually want it too. The ideas that we are having our original and imaginative and they just keep flowing which is why I am keeping a diary of notes that just keep coming so if we do plan to change anything on the way through I can quickly type and update a blog post.