Storyboard

The storyboard is the next step in pre-production. It helps us to build upon the timeline and elaborate the visuals. A storyboard is a much more specific way of placing element in time with the song. storyboards are used to visualise the images that will appear on the screen. you work out the types of shot, the angle, the camera movement, the mise en shape, the colours and shape, anything and everything.

Storyboards is where the real work happens. Storyboards are much cheaper to experiment with, to try things out than messing about on the day of filming. A piece of paper and a pencil and a storyboard artist, cost a lot less per day then the millions that would be spent on a movie.

Pop videos are just the same. You work out all the shots on the story board before you even begin to start filming. you spot the mistake, the things that don't work and put them right in the storyboard before you film. It is a bit like creating a puzzle or a plan, which you shoot to and complete the puzzle in the editing process.

In our story board, we have close up of typical girly activities that would be expected to be seen at a teenage sleepover, this is at the begining of our pop videos to establish the setting and what is going on.