One thing that is recommended when it comes to making a storyboard, specifically a hand drawn storyboard, is that you do not draw stick men to demonstrate your ideas. This is because the drawing of a stick man does not actually give a good enough or clear enough impression of how you should compose the frame. Therefore unless you are actually good at drawing then it would be a better idea to use and create a photographic storyboard.
Also on the storyboard you need to make sure that you have all the necessary information about the shot above it so that the people who will actually need to use to storyboard, (people such as: camera operators, the actors and extras that are in the shot and mainly the director) can understand practically everything that needs to be going on in the shot and also how the shot should be set up and look on the camera/look to the viewer.
The storyboard is a very useful piece of equipment and this should be taken with you when you go out on location shooting your film. It is specifically important so that you know the plan you had to set out each shot and what was going to be involved in it. This storyboard can be helpful to pretty much everyone that is involved in the shooting of the music video. It can help the actors that you are using to get into the correct position and also so that they know what movements and props they need to be doing or using. The storyboard, along with a shooting script, can help the camera operator as well as the director by refreshing their memory with their original ideas. It can specifically help them with setting up the shot as things like the shot type as well as camera movement and direction/action are written down on these information sheets.
With the storyboard for our own music video, I think that we are going to be using photographs to show the set up of the different shots that make up the video/storyboard, this is because if we drew if we wouldn't really be able to make clear enough images that would be easy enough for us all to interpret and understand when it actually comes to filming the shots when we are on location. I think that when we are first deciding things like the order and setting up of each of our shots, within our storyboard we will use little and rough sketches so that we can at least get an idea of how the music video will go and also how to approach it. We will fill in the image parts of the storyboard when we have found and shot the correct photographs, unless we think later on that it would be easier to demonstrate out ideas for the shots by using some hand drawn sketches.
With our storyboard we have changed and rearranged it quite a few times. We have had problems occur during our filming sessions that therefore have caused us to alter some of our ideas and we have then had to change our storyboard, this unfortunately had kind of made the last version of our storyboard slightly rough and more in note form than pictures as that was easier for us to get across our idea and figure our sequences and order of some shots within our storyboard and video.
Above I have scanned in the final storyboards that we used to help us create and film the shots that make up our final music video. As you can see we did leave space to draw sketches or stick photographs but didn't actually have the time to fill it in, this is because we decided to leave it in note form, for when we take it out filming with us as it is easy and quicker to read. I am now going to tell you about a couple of different shots that are shown/talked about on the storyboard so that you can get an idea of how it works, and how we used it.
The first shot I will look at is number 11, which can be found on the second page or storyboards, this shot would be where the song is playing and the lyric 'He's a wolf, in disguise', to which we have then written that during this we would like the shot to start off blurred and then come into focus (for when it comes to editing) and the shot would consist of a tilt or even a zoom that would reveal The Wolfman character. We chose to have the shot like this because we were following the lyrics or at least using them as a a base for our story and we thought that it would be good to follow them for this particular shot and have the wolf in disguise, not only in his costume but also in the shot and editing of the shot used to introduce him.
Then next shots on the storyboard that I am going to look at numbers 17 and 18, this is because these two shots are related and the kind of follow on from each other. For these shots the lyrics that run through them are: 'that boy is a monster, m-m-m-monster - repeated like 3 or 4 times' so during this time we thought that it would be a good idea and place to put in a dance sequence/routine. You can see that on the storyboard itself we have written that the action for these shots would be a dance, and that the camera movement that we would be using to film these shots would either be static or tracking if they were good enough. Again these shots would be long shots so that you could see all of the movement that the actor is doing/performing. Across the two shots you can see that I put down that this dance part would cover the whole of that verse of chorus (that is mentioned in the lyric part of the storyboard) and that we should use varied shots and angles when creating or filming this routine/these shots.
The next shot I am looking at is number 26 which shows Dracula and Lady Gaga having a scene together, during this one we were thinking of having them interact with each somehow, which if you look at shot 25 you can see that he bites her, therefore this shot is a continuation of that shot. For this one we again followed the lyrics which says 'Boy, now get your paws right off of me.' which allowed us to have the Dracula biting her and then at this point in the song she would turn around and then push him/his arm off of her. For this shot we were planning on having a static, mid/long shot, and we actually did film both of these and we went with the long shot for the final music video, as it looked better when you could the whole of the character's body.
Another shot that I'll talk about is shot number 30, which can also be found on the fifth page of storyboards, this shot would accompany the lyric 'he ate my heart, I love that girl', and the rest of that verse/bridge. During this we again wanted to stick to following the lyrics, as much as possible and yet still be really inventive. Therefore as you can see from reading the storyboard, we wanted the shot to consist of kind of slow motion shots of The Wolfman and Dracula eating hearts, which we actually managed to re-create. This shot doesn't actually have a specific shot type written down with it, which probably should have been done, but with this one I think that we needed to experiment with shot types and see how they would as we need to be able to see all the necessary information and acting going on.
And that is how our last storyboard was put together and how we worked from it and used whilst filming our music video.
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