Story board and songs

What is a storyboard?

Once a concept or script is written for a film or animation, the next step is to make a storyboard. A storyboard visually tells the story of an animation panel by panel, kind of like a comic book.

Your storyboard will should convey some of the following information:

• What characters are in the frame, and how are they moving?
• What are the characters saying to each other, if anything?
• How much time has passed between the last frame of the storyboard and the current one?
• Where the "camera" is in the scene? Close or far away? Is the camera moving?

Why make a storyboard?

Creating a storyboard will help you plan your animation out shot by shot. You can make changes to your storyboard before you start animating, instead of changing your mind later. You will also be able to talk about your animation and show your storyboard to other people to get feedback on your ideas.

Here you can see our ideas for the story board, we thought of ideas and drew them as they came to us, then as you can see we have numbered them in the order that we will aim to film and put them together in.

These are examples of other story boards for a variety of things, I found them very useful and a good source of research, they show a number of things such as:

- Structure

- Images

- Wording

- Planning

We tried to base our own story board on this, however as you can see, not as higher standard as these. 

The story board on the left is a very detailed and high quality story board, it shows camera angles and even facial expressions, although doing a story board to this much detail would be very time consuming, I can understand why it would be useful for when creating the final product as it would save more time when deciding what they wanted. However, the story board on the top right is more like our own, where it has simple drawings and short hand notes, however it also has much more detail such as saying in places where they would pan and zoom etc.

However we are also aiming to hopefully entwine more songs as we film and think of other ideas. So far we aim to use the following songs:

Leaving on a jet plane-

Umbrella- Rihanna

L.I.F.E.G.O.E.S.O.N- Noah and the whale

All of the lights- Rihanna ft. Kanye West

Bright Lights, Bigger City- Cee Lo Greene

Buzzin'- Mann Ft. 50 Cent

The Fast Food song-Fast Food Rockers

Frisky- Tinie Tempah Ft. Labrinth

The Lazy Song- Bruno Mars

OH NO!- Marina and the Diamonds

Smack That- Akon Ft. Eminem

Hello- Martin Solveig Ft. Dragonette

Rain on me-

Friday- Rebecca Black

Next we need to find approx 10 people to appear in our video, and begin filing using a 'Panasonic HDC-SD60 Full HD'

Preliminary Task

We watched this video called 'Songs in real life', which is a video made by a group of teenagers in America. The use normal conversation but with song lyrics and the song to make a video. We have decided to make one of these video ourselves as it will help us prepare for making our actual music video.
I hope to learn how to lip-sync which making this video and will therefore be able to complete my own full music video to a higher standard.
I think that this video is very well made and the lyrics to the song fit perfectly in time with the words being said/sung.
In preparation for making our own 'songs in real life' we will first create a story board with a number of ideas, then once that is completed we will ensure we have all of the required songs and then begin filming.