Designing Storyboard

The process of creating our storyboard started with the outline of the storyboard which I have posted earlier. The timing of each shot was counted and overall we got 45 shots excluding the quick switches between sets in two points of the video. Then, our storyboard artist Dora started to visualise our thoughts in pictures.

Organising casting

We decided to conduct a casting for the artist of our music video. We chose 4 people in our school which may fit the criterias we need. Then we sent them an emails about further details of our casting:

Research into similar products

Here is a presentation that I made after conducting a research into similarities in technical and symbolic conventions.

Casting ideas

For our music video, we need an artist, 2 dancers man and woman and one more man for shots with the artist.
For the singer, we still want to have a young girl, tall, blond around 20 years old. We want our artist to be confident on working on camera.
We tried to find a potential artist inside a school, here are our variants so far:

For the dancers we are not interested in a particular hair colour or look, the main thing for us is that they can dance that contemporary dance together and can kiss each other. 

For the second male in our video (which will be in a couple of shots with the dancer), we just need very confident and attractive man. 

Outline of the storyboard

Set Key:
Set #1 : White room, red couch

Set #2 : Red room, White couch

Set #3 : Red room, lights from ceiling, dancers
Set #4 : White room, red bed
Set #5 : Red room, white bed

(Set 4+5 only require new furniture, so are the same as 1+2)

List of the shots:

1. Set 5, Close up, artist lying in bed, sad, lipsyncing, looking at camera. Sound: “Two AM”, lighting, 0:10
2. Set 1, close up near the white wall, sad, lipsyncing, looking at camera. Sound “Three AM”, white bright lightening,

transition zoom out on 0:13 to wide shot - we see red couch on words “And made me lose my phocus” cut on 0:15

3. Set 1,close up of hand on red sofa, artist touches red sofa. Sound “I almost didn’t notice” cut on 0:17
4. Quick change of set 1 to set 2 many times till 0:19
5. Set 1, mid shot of an artist, lipsyncing. Sound “and I better know what to do”. Cut on 0:21
6. Set 3, wide shots of two dancers, dim lightening. Sound “Who’s gonna be first one to move”. On “I wanna get closer to you” background colour red starts to move towards white, man goes towards woman. Cut on 0:27
7. Set 5, close up, artist getting out of white sheets a bit aggressively (escaping from loneliness) cut on 0:31
8. Set 1, middle shot, artist sits down on red sofa. Sound “i wanna get closer to you”. Cut on 0:36
9. Set 3, wide shot of two dancers, they run towards each other, red colour in background covers all white, lightening becomes brighter. Sound “I was chasing highs” Cut on 0:39
10. Set 3, middle shot, dancing, cut on 0:44
11. Set 2, extreme close up, artist looking at camera, lipsyncing, zoom out and we see that room is now red on words “I was chasing highs till I found you” cut on 0:48
12. Set 2, close up (from different angle), lipsyncing, cut on 0:53
13. Set 3, wide shot, dancing, cut on 1:00
14. Set 1, wide shot, artist dancing near/on red sofa cut on 1:05
15. Set 2, extreme close up, lipsyncing. Sound “You are getting closer in slow motion” cut on 1:10
16. Set 5, mid shot, artist sitting on white sheets, lipsyncing, cut on 1:18
17. Set 4, same mid shot but other colours, artist sitting on red sheets in the same pose, lipsyncing, cut on 1:25
18. Quick change of shots 16 and 17 between each other till 1:27
19. Set 1, mid shot, artist standing near red sofa, lipsyncing. Sound “And i better know what to do”, cut on 1:30
20. Set 2, mid shot, artist standing near white sofa, lipsyncing. Sound “Who’s going to be first one to move”, cut on 1:32
21. Set 2, wide shot, artist sitting on the white sofa, lipsyncing, cut on 1:36
22. Set 3, wide shot, dancing, cut on 1:40
23. Set 3, mid shot, dancers getting closer together. Sound “I wanna get closer to you”, cut on 1:45
24. Set 2, close up, artist sitting on the sofa lipsyncing. Sound “I was chasing highs” cut on 1:48
25. Set 3, mid shot, dancing closely together, cut on 1:53
26. Set 2, mid shot, artist sitting on the white sofa lipsyncing, cut on 2:00
27. Set 3, wide shot, dancing further away from each other, cut on 2:05
28. Set 2, wide shot, artist dancing on/near the sofa lipsyncing, cut on 2:09
29. Set 3 wide shot, dancing together, most of bulbs lights up, cut on 2:14
30. Set 3, 8 different shots of lighting bulbs on each bit, cut on 2:19
31. Set 4, mid shot, artist inside of red sheets (white sheets with red lightening), lipsyncing, on 2:27 after “space between us getting smaller and smaller”, man’s hands hugs her from the back, cut on 2:35
32. Set 2, wide shot, artist pushes the white sofa out of the room, cut on 2:39
33. Set 3, dancers dancing very close together, cut on 2:44
34. Set 2, wide shot, artist sits on RED sofa, lipsyncing, cut on 2:52
35. Set 5, mid shot, artist throws white sheets out of the shot, cut on 3:00
36. Set 3, mid shot, dancers standing very close to each other, kissing, becoming silhuettes
37. THE END
    
    
    

Development of the main idea

I was thinking what if we will play with colours more. We'll add some kind of narrative and order to it. So we will start with shots of artist in a white bed: alone and scared, lost. Then we show the white room, her near the white wall for example like she tries to get out. The camera then zooms out and we see a red sofa. She notices it and sits on it trying to escape the loneliness through that red piece. Then the shot may change to the red room but white coach. She then quickly stands up and looking around continue lip-syncing. At the same time we can show the white bed again, how she throws all the pillows sheets and everything around.
Then the dancers. What if we also change it a little. I was thinking about less deep shot. So the wall will be exactly behind the artists. But not really the wall. So we leave the bulbs/light on the sides of the room, but the back wall will be a green screen or just a projector screen. And for example at the beginning dancers stay on different sides of the room and the wall behind them half white (where the girl is) and half red (where the guy is). Then, when he starts moves towards her, the border of colours blurring and white slowly starts to become red. Then, they start to dance together and the bulb thing starts.
The artist then becomes more confident and strong in red room. She may even dance there, showing that she is not afraid of white sofa.
Then, towards the end of the video, we see the last element. Basically it may be her sitting in the corner of that light bed, she couldn't escape or something, and then we see over the shoulder or whatever shot of the guy which enters this construction and in his hand there is a red sheet for example. He puts/throws this sheet on floor and the room/lights become red. Then we see them together in this red bed cuddling and everything.
At the end as we used to have we see the dancers becoming silhouettes.

Second draft of timeline