Final Storyboard of Every Scene

When Sammi and I came together with our individual storyboards, we basicly had the same ideas due to the certain effect we wanted to come across in our music video. Outside of my blog, i drew this storyboard, as it is unclear I will translate the meanings of this sketch.


As the beginning of the song is a drumming part, we decided we wanted to use 8 fast flashshots of the rest of the music video. In the first part of the storyboard you can see the first four flashshots, including pictures of the girl (to show she is obviously appearing in the video), the main character Luke smashing a photo frame. This certain flashshot will lead the audience to question why is he smashing a photo frame? This will want the audience to keep on watching. Again the second part of the storyboard is the next four flashshots showing more to the video and of a different location (the woods). The last flashshot has to be a cliffhanger to create tension for the ending of the video. This flashshots will be a tease of what is in the video, using close up camera shots, extreme long shots and medium camera shots. The actual start to the video begins with close ups and medium camera shots of photographs of the two main characters to show their relationship status together. The appearance of the characters hands touching the photo's. Sammi and I didn't want to give too much away at the beginning, because we thought it would ruin the certain effect we wanted to put across. So we carry on the video by then showing the main character's face (who was touching the photo's), using a medium close up to show his emotion, which is angry and upset. The audience will then immediately know the relationship is over and that is what the video will be about. The next scene the second character enters driving past in the car, while Luke storms out the house with anger. Using an over the shoulder camera shot, the boy watches Stephanie drive off in the car. At this point Luke will be standing in the middle of the road. Luke then spooks Stephanie in the next scene by appearing in the road (as he followed her). We decided to use an over the shoulder camera shot again, placed in the back on the car so we will have a full view of the road infront (where Luke will walk out infront of her).

On the second storyboard, we have used an point of view shot from Luke looking at Stephanie getting out the car. As Luke walks out infront of her driving, she stops and gets out. This was connecting to the chase scene into the woods, the tension builds up due to the lyrics at this certain point in the music video. The chase scene starts when the audience is able to see the extreme long shot/tracking shot used focusing on the characters running through the woods/trees in panic (Steph) and anger (Luke). The third section on this storyboard is again a point of view shot from Stephanie. She slows down from running, and rests on a tree gasping for breath. At this point in the video, the audience feel for her terror. The next scene continues from the last, but this time we have used a extreme close up and a front over the shoulder shot showing Luke in the distance warming behind her/catching up. We plan to make Stephanie in focus at this point due to the last scene with her gasping for breath still. To make an effective chase scene we wanted hand held shots when their running. We decided to use both characters for this type of camera shot. The last scene on our storyboard closes the music video leaving a cliffhanger to our video, the audience are unaware of what happens to Stephanie in the end. Again to make a strong ending, we want to use a hand held shot by an surprisingly third character/s, going through the trees and then play in reverse.