Filming Storyboard

Foundation Shots

In order to film our video we had to create a storyboard. We wanted to be able to have a vast variety of shots to use, so decided to film the entire song from a varying number of angles and areas in each setting.  

 We went on to decide that as a foundation of stock film from each area we would film the entire song at a close-up/mid-shot and possibly extreme close-up also. This would provide us with plenty of footage to cross-cut with when we began our editing process.

Location Shots

We then went on to think about our locations and how we would like to film certain parts of the song in each place.

We decided that as the song is split into three verses and the chorus at intervals we would set each verse in one of our three settings. The first would be in the Model Village, the second verse in Cliveden's Water Garden and the third simply in front of a plain black background.

Verse 1 (as seen to the right) is how we plan to begin the song. We were going to start with a close up of the singer after the musical introduction of the song and then open out into a wider shot to see more of her surroundings as she sings and stands before returning to a close-up once more to complete the sequence.

As we planned to film the whole song in each different setting we also planned how we would film the first verse in our blank setting. We decided that the use of an instrument in at least one of the sections of our video, however brief it may be, would be very much in keeping with the conventions of a pop music video.