This document provides information about storyboarding for music video production. It defines a storyboard as a sequence of drawings representing the planned shots for a video production. Storyboards are created during pre-production and used by the director, cinematographer, camera operators, and lighting technicians on set to plan shots and ensure continuity. The document instructs students to begin creating a storyboard for their music video by drawing the planned shots and including relevant information like framing, camera movements, and shot descriptions.

1. Music Video Production
Storyboarding

2. Last week
You continued to work on your pre-
production for your music video idea.

3. This week
You will be learning about storyboarding
techniques before applying them to
create your own storyboard.
You could also begin to understand the
role a storyboard plays in a successful
production

4. By the end of today, you
MUST be able to identify the information
required to create a storyboard
SHOULD be able to use illustration
techniques to begin creating a
storyboard for your video
COULD explain the importance of
storyboards to planning and production.

5. Visual Planning

6. Storyboard
What is a storyboard?

7. A storyboard is
a sequence of drawings, typically with
some directions and dialogue,
representing the shots planned for a
movie or television production

8. What do we use storyboards for?
The director and
cinematographer will use
them to plan
• how each shot will look
(called the composition or
framing),
• and to devise how the
sequence of shots will flow.

9. Anatomy of a storyboard
What information do we get from a
storyboard?

10. The drawn box
represents the
frame
You need to
know your
aspect ratio as
this will
determine the
shape of the
frame

11. Camera
movements are
shown using
arrows which
describe the
move, eg/ pan

12. Some shots will
be drawn over
more than 1
frame where
there is
complicated
action.
Instead of cut it
will say CONT’D

13. When it cuts to a
new shot it says
---- CUT

14. All your shots
should be
numbered, eg/
1, 2, 3, 4,
These numbers
will also be on
your shot list /
shooting
schedule

15. Shots that are
drawn over more
than one frame
should be
numbered and
lettered
eg/ 1A, 1B, 1C
etc…

16. The storyboard
will have brief
descriptions of
the action
unfolding in the
shot.

17. When do we create storyboards?
Storyboards are part of our
pre-production planning as
we will need them on set.

18. Who needs storyboards on set
- Director
- Assistant Director (1st AD)
- Director Of Photography (also
known as a cinematographer)
- Camera operator
- Lighting technician

19. Director / Assistant Director
Why might the director need the storyboard

20. Director / Assistant Director
To check that the camera operators have
framed each shot in the way they want and
to check that they don’t miss any shots out
during filming.

21. Director Of Photography (DOP)
Why would the DOP need the
storyboard?

22. Director Of Photography (DOP)
To plan the lighting design for each shot
and check that camera operators were
getting the right shots.

23. Camera Operator
Why will the camera operator need the
storyboard?

24. Camera Operator
To check they have framed the shot in
the way that the DOP & director want

25. Lighting Technician
Why will the lighting
technie need to a copy
of the storyboard?

26. Lighting Technician
Lighting technicians will
have to recreate
specific lighting styles to
maintain continuity (or
for effect) so it helps to
have a visual aid of how
the lighting of each shot
is meant to look.

27. Task
You will need to create a storyboard for
you video.
Using the template on Moodle begin to
draw your storyboards.
What information do you need to
communicate to the viewer?