Storyboard

Here is the process of making the storyboard for my group.

A storyboard, defined by Teachfloor, is said to be "a visual representation of a story, often in the form of illustrations or images, arranged in a specific order to show the sequence of events in a film, video, etc."

 

I had taken the time to learn a little more on storyboards and what is expected through this blog by the BBC - https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/guides/z2vrhv4/revision/2 - however my teacher had ended up providing us templates to aid in our storyboard process. It included 2 templates, one wth 4 large boxes for detailed and another with 8 smaller boxes. Our teacher had suggested us to draw out the scenes from a singular location rather than planning the cuts between a performance to a b-roll, with the intention of reducing confusion in the narrative. Because of this, most shots did not have a defined duration, as it can vary depending on where it will be placed in the editing phase.

In these first few pages, I had used 2 pages of big boxes to draw out my ideas in detail, however, I will be switching to the pages with smaller boxes moving on to be more time-efficient. Since I would focus less on detail, I will be able to spend more time in ensuring the ideas all throughout the video will be comprehensable (due to the limited space to write descriptions) to both my team members and my teacher. This is the continuation of the storyboard.

There are still some scenes missing, which include the scene from the bridge as my team and I had not been able to have the time to properly discuss our next plan of action and realign our vision. Thus there will be more to come. However, for the sake of the due date, this will be all to submit at the current moment.

Reflection : This is my first time making a storyboard for a video and I found it so incredibly fun to work on. I enjoyed taking part in what will be the first few steps to get to the production phase. Although hearing our teacher suggest a different approach to our narrative due to its confusing timeline was soul-crushing initially, I think I was able to make a storyboard that can easily be understood even without the music because of the change. I believe this storyboard will be useful in the future to reference during our production so we don't stray too far off our original plan.

Problems : The significant shift in plans regarding the narrative that caused us to alter our proposed visuals was the largest issue. We had to delay doing our tasks to quickly recap our teacher's comments and discuss what direction to go from there. This meant spending more time to reorganise our scenes, find ideas and inspirations from other music videos, suggest filler visuals, etc. The only other problem was the lack of paper provided by my teachers since my storyboard took 4 pages plus, yet I was only given 2.

Solution : The biggest helped my group received would definitely be our teacher who sat and suggested ideas for specific scenes, which I believed became a foundation to how I had built our storyboard around. Regarding the amount of paper needed, I simply photocopied more copies of the templates.