Storyboard for our music video "Heaven"
We didn't make this an official storyboard for our music video as we thought there would be too many shots to replicate therefore it would be more efficient choosing the main 6 scenarios that we will re-create instead of repeating the same shots.
Shot By Shot Breakdown;
Shot 1 is going to be set in a scenic setting either in a field of forest as we thought this would give the video some range in shots. We got the idea of this from Leona Lewis video "Run" which we thought look effective as it makes the artist look quite vulnerable and isolated which run with the theme of the song. To show these emotions we would use a wide range of shots and angles including close ups, mid shots, extreme close ups as well as long shots to include some parts of the scenery.
Shot 2 is set in a traditional church as we thought it would extremely effective. In the original video for Beyonce's "Heaven" she was shown in a church surrounded by few other people who looked upset. Beyonce is shown crying in the church and we thought it would be good to reflect a bit of her video in to ours to show that we thought about the original video and used it to influence our video. Some ideas that we thought of included having some kind of performance element in the church either the artist singing or another character dancing with ribbons perhaps to link the words of the song to the video.
Shot 3 will be set in a graveyard of some sort. We don't want one too dark as we don't want the whole music video to be really depressing. The clips in the graveyard will not be too prevalent throughout the video as we just want snippets of it throughout of the artist grieving or reminiscing. I think we will use mainly pans of the scene which include the artist.
Shot 4 will be the artist sitting on a stool in a dark room or stage. We got this idea from Whitney Houstons "I Will Always Love You" as we thought it would be simple and effective to just have the dark room and the artist on there own singing. This ensures we have the performance element in the music video. I think it would look most effective if we had the camera panning around the artist in the middle. This could be used with a tracking device or a dolly.
Shot 5 represents all the happy elements throughout the video, as we didn't want every shot to be sad so we thought it would be good to have flashbacks of when the artist was happy. We don't want it to be too similar to the original song so we are going to create a different flashback that we could use such as going to a party or being with a partner.
Shot 6 is supposed to be a scenic shot similar to the one in Alexandra Burke's "Hallelujah" where the artist is standing performing and in the background there is lots of candles or people holding handles/lights. The main reason for this idea was to bring some light into a dark situation and to show that there is hope.
