Evaluation of storyboard

The story boarding has been a really good and helpful way of planning my music video. I feel as if I can picture the way the music video looks more and more and see what works and what doesn’t.

We have changed our idea a number of times from 3’s a crowd to synergy due to the fact that you me at six have more than three band members and 3s a crowd is already the name of a band. This meant we had to find more people to fit in our band to make them learn the music. We chose stay with me as a song as it is very narrative based which drives our push and pull relationship story between our two dance lovers. By doing a storyboard it made us see the timing for real and made us see which shots worked in certain places and which shots didn’t. We have had to change some elements about our music video and rearrange shots to make it work which has helped me a lot as it has shown me a problem before shooting and editing the final music video saving time wasting and has created a clear image in my mind. I also feel that by editing and cutting our story board I have reminded myself of all the tools and equipment in Final Cut pro and made mistakes with editing that I have learned not to make for the really thing. The main element I have found useful from the story boarding is timing, it has really given me a feel for the amount of time each shot is meant to be on for, which has made us change our mind about lots of timings making some shorter and snappier such as the close up montage and some much slower such as just before the first chorus ‘Stay with me’. I have found this very useful as I now feel much more comfortable about elements such as timing and shot positioning in my final shoot of my music video.