Group Storyboards***

After writing our individual narratives we combined elements in order to create a group narrative. Following this, each member in my group created their own individual storyboards portraying their ideas for our thriller opening scene. We then came together and collided our ideas to create a final group storyboard. We allocated the role of drawing to Jagoda whilst I filled out details on the storyboard so that the illustrations were explained. A storyboard is a graphic representation of how your video will unfold, shot by shot. It is vital to create a storyboard as this process makes production easier and quicker, as key elements are already illustrated, ready to be created in production. 

Did you follow your storyboards, or did you make changes?

We followed the majority of our planned storyboard as we shared a unanimous vision as to what we wanted the final music video to look like. For example, we planned to use a panning shot when the victim is going from her bedroom to the bathroom in order to create a suspenseful climax, as it suggests to the audience that someone is behind her. From the planning to production stage we felt this was an effective shot as it worked in the way we had desired. However we also made changes. In the beginning of the opening, we had planned to use a fade to go from narrative, to a black screen back to narrative. But when in the editing stage, this transition slowed down the narrative too much, and therefore the opening was too long. Also, it broke the tension that was created. Therefore we decided to have the credits over the top of the narrative so that the tension was not broken, nor was the opening too long. Overall the changes we made improved our opening sequence.