storyboard for our media music video

1. Storyboard
By Rebecca Hay and Katy Marwood

2. Shot: 1
Shot type: Weather shot
Action: Starting the video
Camera Movement: Little
Sound/Dialogue: Instrumental of the song
Shot: 2
Shot type: Close up
Action: Establish the protagonist to the audience
Camera movement: Little
Sound/Dialogue: Instrumental
Shot: 3
Shot type: Wide shot
Action: Protagonist walking towards
something unknown, acts as a mystery
Camera movement: Pan
Sound/Dialogue: Instrumental
Shot: 4
Shot type: Over the shoulder shot
Action: Adds mystery, ‘who is she
walking too?’ develops storyline
Camera movement: Little
Sound/Dialogue: Instrumental then
“Straight lines”
Shot: 5
Shot type: 2 shot
Action: Establishing who she has met, he
hands her a brown mysterious envelope
Camera movement: Little
Sound/Dialogue: Continuation of lyrics
“That unwind you”

3. Shot: 6
Shot type: Cut in
Action: Displays what’s happening in close detail
Camera movement: None
Sound/Dialogue: Instrumental, then “She does a little”
Shot: 7
Shot type: Extreme close up
Action: Amplification – direct link between lyrics and visuals.
Displays an eye when lyric says “She does a little thing with her
eye”
Camera movement: None
Sound/Dialogue: Lyrics – “she does a little thing with her eye”
Shot: 8
Shot type: Mid shot
Action: Lip syncing
Camera movement: Slow
Sound/Dialogue: “We’re off soon”
Shot: 9
Shot type: Long shot
Action: Develop storyline, show character
walking away
Camera movement: Pan
Sound/Dialogue: Instrumental
Shot: 10
Shot type: Wide shot
Action: Develops the storyline, show she left the park
Camera movement: Little
Sound/Dialogue: Instrumental

4. Shot: 11
Shot type: Match on action
Action: Shows the character going home
Camera movement: Little
Sound/Dialogue:
Shot: 12
Shot type: Long shot
Action: Storyline development
Camera movement: Little
Sound/Dialogue: Lyrics “She says”
Shot: 13
Shot type: Close up
Action: Shows the effect of substance use, bloody nose
Camera movement: Some
Sound/Dialogue: Lyrics “the bleedings incidental”
Shot: 14
Shot type: Long shot
Action: Character fully entering house
Camera movement: Little
Sound: Lyrics “cos shes so cool”
Shot: 15
Shot type: Long shot
Action: Character walking up stairs, holding the
brown envelope – mystery
Camera movement: Pan
Sound: Instrumental/beats

5. Shot: 16
Shot type: Medium close up
Action: Character putting mysterious bag on table
Camera movement: None
Shot: 17
Shot type: Close up
Action: Showing bag of drugs on surface
Camera movement: None
Sound: Instrumental
Shot: 18
Shot type: Close up
Action: Character emptying bag on table,
showing of drugs which will be represented by
using salt
Camera movement: Zoom Cut
Shot type: 19
Shot type: Close up
Action: Lip syncing the lyrics
Camera movement: Pan
Sound: “Now shes doing it all the time”
Shot: 20
Shot type: Close up
Action: Character making ‘lines’ – doing
the drugs
Camera movement: Pan
Sound: song playing

6. Shot: 21
Shot type: Long shot
Action: Character doing drugs
Camera movement: None
Shot: 22
Shot type: Extreme close up
Action: Lip syncing
Camera movement: Zoom
Sound: “slow down”
Shot: 23
Shot type: close up
Action: Shows texts from ex-boyfriend
Camera movement: Pull focus
Sound: “I want you”
Shot: 24
Shot type: Medium close up
Action: Show expression of character –
sadness
Camera movement: none
Sound: instrumental
Shot: 25
Shot type: Close up
Action: Shows heart locket – key to
storyline, gift from ex-boyfriend
Camera movement: Zoom
Sound/Dialogue: instrumental

7. Shot: 26
Shot type: Close up
Action: Flashbacks of drugs – distress of protagonist
Camera movement: None
Shot: 27
Shot type: Medium long shot
Action: Character looking in mirror, distressed
Camera movement: zoom
Shot: 28
Shot type: Close up
Action: Close up of text messages saying ‘I miss you’
Camera movement: Zoom onto text
Shot: 29
Shot type: Extreme close up
Action: Showing eyes, closer look into
emotion
Camera movement: None
Shot: 30
Shot type: Medium shot
Action: Character getting into
bath, emotional demise
Camera movement: none

8. Shot: 31
Shot type: medium close up
Action: shows the character in the bath, developing the storyline
Camera movement: Zoom in
Sound/Dialogue: Instrumental
Shot: 32
Shot type: Extreme close up
Action: close up of face in bath, final expression of character?
Camera movement: Zoom
Sound/Dialogue: Instrumental
Shot: 33
Shot type: Wide shot
Action: Character holds the heart locket, this object links
the protagonist to her ‘older version’ as it clarifies to the
audience that they are the same person. The prop is
relevant to the texts she receives through out
Camera movement: None
Shot: 34
Shot type: Close up
Action: Shows character dropping the necklace,
ambiguous as it could symbolise the character ending the
love she has for her ex-boyfriend and could hint that the
character has died from drug-abuse
Camera movement: Pan
Shot: 35
Shot type: Extreme close up
Action: Shows the character shutting her eye, again
links to the previous idea that the character has
died(?)
Camera movement: None

9. Shot: 36
Shot type: Rule of thirds
Action: the elder version of the protagonist appears for
the first time, shes holding the necklace which acts like a
plot twist as it establishes the character is still alive, when
staged in the bath we believe she is dead. The necklace
links them together
Camera movement: None
Sound/Dialogue: Instrumental
Shot: 37
Shot type: Over the shoulder
Action: Shows storyline. Over the shoulder shot of the
elder women holding the necklace and looking at it.
Adds more to the concept that the character didn’t
actually die.
Camera movement: Zoom
Sound/Dialogue: Instrumental
Shot: 38 (final shot)
Shot type: Wide shot (weather)
Action: Sunset to finalise the storyline
Camera movement: Pan
Sound/Dialogue: Ending of song