This document provides a detailed shot-by-shot storyboard plan for a music video for Coldplay's song "Fix You". The plan includes various camera shots and angles to depict gloomy, dark scenes as well as more positive scenes throughout different locations over the course of the song to help tell the story and match the lyrics. Specific shots include scenes in a church, graveyard, derelict areas, woods, by a piano and candles, of a train, car, bike, and more to help illustrate the song's message.

1. Coldplay Fix You Music Video Plan second Draft
This time I have looked closer into the plan and have added various camera shots to create a more accurate
perception of the video. I shall then create a storyboard by drawing images and then adding a few comments
about before getting feedback from that.
0- 12 seconds
- Church scenes
- Different shots of a church (a variety)
- Gloomy impressions
- Establishing shots
- Long shots and tilting up to the top of the church to show how it is quite scary and
dominating in the scenery
12- 28 seconds
- Walking down the church isle (despair), camera shots at a low angle following at the feet
(mysterious)
- Tilt up to the cross to show how it is important
- Walks to the end in front of the cross
- Shots to the church organs to link to the backing music at this point
- Low angles of the cross
- Person at different parts of the church cutting from one to another showing restlessness: shot
motion shot
28- 33 seconds
- walking through graveyard at night linking to the lyrics of ‘can’t sleep’
- establishing shots
- Long shots
- shots of the sky being dull and bad weather
33-39 seconds
- Car reversed in night and there are street lights or could also be daylight or a mixture flicking
between the two (reversing done through the editing) –‘stuck in reverse’ lyrics
- Long shots of the car and panning to show how it is reversing
39- 47 seconds
- ‘Tears come streaming down your face’ so will have someone with running makeup to create the
dull impression
- Shot of the church organ/ bell to show how it dominates and is scary
- Gloomy dark woods
- Extreme close ups and close ups on the face
47- 1.08 seconds
- Grey gloomy depressing scenes
- Mainly there will be establishing shots but the camera movements such as dolly trucking to
create a smooth image of the scenes and also panning around the scenes
- Sun setting
- Cross
- Graveyard
- Black and white scenery shots- establishing shots
- Graffiti derelict areas, this scene could be zoomed in on to show the extent and level of the
negativity and crime
- Shots which I have created which is artistic through spray cans linking the lyrics and words

2. - Someone walking through the woods, this can be medium closes or ranging from long shots,
extreme longs shots and then close ups to create different impressions
- Someone on a bike with unsteady camera
1.08- 1.44 seconds
- scene to someone playing piano with candles around possibly- any scene shot could be used
possibly close ups though, to emphasise the light
- lights (street lights, motorway at night, outside window, candles)
- ‘ignite’ ‘your’ ‘bones’ separate words artistically used (graffiti) – a slightly off angle, slanted angle
to show artistic imagination
- Starts to walk faster or run- there could be a mixture of unsteady camera and smooth
- Piano again – long shots, medium close ups and also zoom in or extreme close ups of
somebody’s fingers when playing the piano
- ‘fix you’: sunset possibly, woods becoming lighter from the early morning - establishing
1.44-1.50 seconds
‘High up above or down below’
- could use two differing scenes, one low angle and high angle on someone upset
- possibly an extreme close up on tears to show despair
1.50- 2.12 seconds
- Guitar kicks in
- Negativity
- Grey
- Could be a mixture of scenes, mainly scenes such as black and white sceneries using
establishing shots and long shots
2.12- 2.28 seconds
- Piano shots- medium close ups, long shots, close ups – as long as the piano is captured to
the timing of the music
- ‘lights’ scenes- long shots/ establishing shots
- Kieran standing before the night scene- a long shots or medium close up
2.28- 3.31 seconds
- smiling shots, could use many people from all ages- extreme close ups
- train scene sped up and at night time- establishing shots, the camera does not have to move as
the train will creating the movement of the scenery
- possibly a live gig on the electric guitar- any shots but zoom in or close up of the electric guitar
at some point
- motorway sped up scene- establishing, could move the camera panning from right to left or
visa versa for more interest
- car driving through the lights- establishing
- running through the woods- could be an unsteady shot or smooth or a mixture, medium close
ups, long shots and establishing shots
- holding hands in air in front of scenery- medium close ups/ long shots
- running through sceneries
- camera spinning in a field- establishing, may become blurred
- bike and camera in woods
3.32- 4.24 seconds
- tears streaming whilst smiling- extreme close up

3. - camera spinning at different scene or sunnier at same place- establishing
4.24- the end
- Piano to begin and at the very last shot- long shots or extreme close up
- Church scene- establishing and extreme long shots
- Shots not moving or in slow motion of lights: candle, streets at night etc
- Train in slow motion or slowing down- establishing
- ‘ignite your bones’ stuck down somewhere in a scene- close ups and long shots to show where it
is and what it says