Changes to story and the storyboard

The initial story we decided to go with centered on a day out with a group of young friends, the teenage group was scripted as drinking and partying and then falling out. However as we progressed in the production of our music video a general consensus was met by our group as well as others that we asked to look at our base footage, that though the performance pieces were strong, the story was weak and not at all interesting to watch. With this in mind we went back to the drawing board and looked at different possible story lines for the music video to follow. Having looked at many videos by similar bands to our own, we settled on the idea of our main character trying to rebuild his life. Team member Conor Taylor bought the interesting idea of having a structure, made out of scrap, to represent the protagonists life and in turn, his success. We re-shot all of the narrative scenes to ensure that the story and mise en scene were consistent throughout. 

Below are the changes to the story that we made:

The stills attached show the changes in theme and story that we made to our music video, the first still shows the use of effects in our video. Initially we stuck with very basic effects such as Monochrome and Sepia, however, we decided to use effects in the scene that invlolved the protagonist using intravenous drugs to help clarify the unfolding story and to also make the internal effects of the drugs visible to the audience. This is in my opinion helps extend the idea of the struggles that the protagonist is going through. Though a large proportion of the audience will have never used intravenous drugs recreationally, I believe that our audience will be able to relate to his position as many people go through rough, low points in their life. I would like to note that after having researched drug use in music videos, I have determined that it is unlikely that the full version of the video would be allowed the appear before the 9pm watershed with an edited 'clean' version running beforehand.

 The next still I have chosen to attach is of the structure that we decided to incorporate into our music video. The structure was intended to act as an element of our semiotics to act as a symbol for our protagonists quality of life, as his life spirals our of control, the structure begins to crumble and vice versa. We decided to insert this as a plot point mainly due to the fact that we believed as a group that it would help explain the narrative the audience more clearly, something we were lacking in our original video. The structure also is in keeping with the construction site that we filmed our performance sections in front of and helps maintain the idea of structures and stability throughout the music video, in my opinion.

Storyboards

Here is just half of the storyboard we see that the storyboard is very detailed and edited we did this purposely so that there could be no confusion if we needed to go back to this and look for anything we missed out

Here is the other half of the storyboard again we see this is very detailed as we kept this consistent throughout the whole making of the storyboard through doing this it was also easier for as to realise the potential to add new and good ideas in the storyboard to make the music video better.

Here is a full size picture of the finished storyboard. Although its not visible in this picture we did have more stills that where added under certain ones as it symbolised an effect that we where going to do with those particular two shots and half a note to remind us what to add in when we came back to look at the storyboard to see what was next.

Evidence Of working

Here we see two members working through the animatic of the stills of the story board. We had taken pictures of each step of the story board, uploaded them and then played the music in the background to see if the ideas we had produced matches the songs at the right time as we aimed to get it in sync with the song.

Here we see a team member finishing off the final parts to the story board. The story board is what is going to happen in the music video broken down in the stills that we had drawn we then placed them in order so we know what would happen in the video and at what time in the video.