The document provides a shot-by-shot storyboard for a music video depicting a protagonist experiencing mental health issues like hearing voices. It begins with establishing shots of an indie rock band performing. As the song plays, the video cuts between scenes of the protagonist going through their daily routine and becoming increasingly distressed, interspersed with shots of the animated band. During the bridge and climax, the band and hallucinated members disappear from the protagonist's reality until only they remain, holding the microphone at the end.

1. She’s Hearing Voices – Bloc Party
Intro:
The lighting is low key, with a light source from the side
illuminating the band. [Note for editing: black and white
colour grading)
Screen fades from black to reveal a band of 3-4 people
standing in formation, the only member playing is the
guitarist (plucking one string).
The camera cuts to a close-up of a volume knob on an amp being
turned up
When the drums comes in on the track, a shot of the snare
being hit is shown. [Note for editing: repeat the same shot]
A shot from on the floor shows the band moving and getting
into the song
A close-up of the mic on the stand with the singer holding it
Mid-shots of the band members, particularly focusing on the
protag
‘Hey…’
Low angle shot of the band, the singer is now shouting into
the mic
Singer upside down leaning against the bass drum
Mid-shot shows the singer sat cross-legged on a stool staring
into space (or looking at the protag)
Shot of the protag (in the band) [singer still sat]
Verse:
Flash cut reveals a change of location, a street.
The camera tracks the protag on their way to school. They are
wearing school uniform, backpack and watch
OTS shot (tripod) of the watch (reads 9:47)
A close-up tracking shot of the protags shoes
Sound FX signals a message
The protag pulls their phone out of their pocket –
Superimposition on the screen of a text from a friend reads,
‘Where are you? Are you not coming into school?’

2. Location change - Bedroom- fairy lights, books and a clock
Protag rubs their eyes and then looks at the clock, they sigh
and roll away from the clock in the bed.
OTS shot of one of the band members sitting facing the protag
[Note for editing: the band member(s) glitch or have a blue or
red glow]
Chorus:
Cut back to the band in a long shot, the lighting is now done
by glow sticks (red and blue)
Various shots of member of the band at different angles,
perhaps a few canted angles
Close-up of red guitar pick
High angle shot of the protag wearing headphones (blue)
Location change – dark low key lighting
Close-ups of the band members looking soulfully into the
camera [Note for editing: red and blue glow, and last shot
merge all the faces together]
Guitar shot when it plays on the song
Verse 2:
Location change- school corridor or classroom (around 1:15)
The protag walks to meet their friends. A mental health poster
in the background which the protag briefly looks at before
continuing
Shots of the friends talking and laughing. While the band
members sit there bored
Screen splits into two showing the friends on one side [Note
for editing: a 1:2 split that fades into each other, protag
alone in black and white, and the friends in colour]
In the protag scene for this set of footage they are covering
their ears at one point (a montage of them unable to sleep and
hearing voices)
Location – protag’s room – Laptop open on bed showing research
on mental- specifically schizophrenia – band member still sat
in the room
Protag has a notebook at the side and is writing lyrics and
chords

3. In the band setup scene, band members are now jumping about
and jamming; the colours are changing in time to the music
Bridge: 2:07 ish
Slow motion: one member of the band jumps in the air [layered
shot in editing]
A shot of the effects pedal (wah)
Shots of the band
One shot pans to something black
2:33
Starts with something black (graphic match) and shows the
protag walking near graffiti, the band members appear and
start to shove the protag as they walk. The protag doesn’t
take any notice and continues to walk with their head down.
‘Burned by the light’ – a light shone in the protags face and
they look away (cutaway shot) – like Jeremy music video
Burning something perhaps?
Location- Bedroom
A text from a friend ‘Hi, how are you doing?’ – vibrate sound
FX
Protag pauses and then replies ‘I think I keep hearing voices’
[all this is superimposed]
‘I was never alive…’
– just before this, the screen cuts to the band where the
singer says this into the mic and then drops it- the singer
then falls at the same time
Close-up of the mic falling and of the singer on the floor who
disappears
The video goes backwards in time- Showing the protag walking
past the graffiti alone, the band member disappearing from the
friend group and from the protag’s room while they glitch red
and blue. While this is happening the band and instruments are
also disappearing until the protag is the only one left.
The last series of shots is a reverse mic drop by the protag,
showing the mic to come into the protag’s hands.
Text at the bottom of the screen reads ‘If you have been
affected by anything in this video reach out’’please’-fades in