Storyboard of my music video ideas

1. Panama Wedding
all of the people
Storyboard
key shots

2. The opening of my
music video will
establish the
narrative, showing
my protagonist
reflecting on his
emotional state. It
is suggested that
this character has
been melancholic
previously, but is
now having a
change of heart.
The setting is
urban, in
Manchester City
Centre. A long
shot, the
protagonist is
moving on from old
problems and
starting anew.
After a moment,
the character
begins to walk
towards the
camera and out of
the shot.
The shot is
necessary to
introduce
character, setting,
and themes.

3. Filling around the
narrative will be a kind
of performance shot of
the protagonist singing
happily to the camera.
He is optimistic, and the
bright shot creates a
positive vibe which will
be reflected on the
audience.
The mise en scene will
be either bokeh and
unfocused or urban with
regular people moving
around him. Sunny
weather during shooting
would act as a
connotation of
happiness, in a similar
manner to the
iconography of the
sunglasses. Murkier
weather would
conceptually relate to
the character’s deeper
thoughts which may be
less happy. Through the
use of pathetic fallacy, a
viewer can garner that
although he appears
happy on a basic front,
the weather suggests
that perhaps it is a
façade.

4. Using bokeh filters,
I can shape the
out-of-focus light in
the mise en scene
and foreground to
create shapes.
Footage of moving
transportation is
symbolic of journey
and moving on,
emotionally as well
as semantically.
This bright bokeh
effect will create a
dreamlike effect
which should lift
the viewer.
There are different
basic bokeh
shapes, but for this
shot I plan on using
an almost ironic
heart shape to
convey a love of
living. The irony
would be the
moving on from a
break up and loss
of typical love.

5. Another idea I have uses
out-of-focus light and a
bokeh lens, likewise.
Two shots, one focus
and one not. The first
that the viewer sees is
unfocused and shapes
the light of the rain into
hearts, creating a very
pretty aesthetic in line
with the
dreamlike/positive half
of the video. However,
the same shot can
change and focus on the
rain splashing in the
puddle, looking dark,
grey and bleak, as
pathetic fallacy.
Placed at the end of the
video, this could thrust
the viewer from an
uplifted and dreamlike
state of mind and back
into the harsh nature of
reality. For any viewers
who haven’t got this, it
causes them to question
what they have seen
and re-think the context
of the video. If they re-
watch it, they may be
more likely to notice the
subtle hints of sadness
injected in many of the
shots.