Planning the Video

These are photos from the storyboard we drew for the music video. They include timings and annotations, as we wanted our planning to be precise, so when it comes down to actually filming the video we'll know exactly what we need to shoot. Also it helps with getting ideas for how we will edit some of the shots, with various effects and transitions.

The first frame, starting at 0 seconds is an overview of a darkened room with a stool in the middle. The shot is taken from a balcony above the room, and looks down as the man walks across the room towards the stool. The shot was chosen because it sets the scene, showing where this part of the video is taking place. The second frame is a cut to the man, this time looking up at him from just beneath him and to from the left. This shot gives a close up introduction of the man, and starts at 7 seconds.

The first frame is a return to the first shot, this time having rotated slightly. The man has now sat down on the stool with his guitar. This shot comes in between 8 and 9 seconds in. The second frame is a shot of the headstock of the guitar as it's being tuned. This is to give a focus on the musicality of the artist and is at 12 seconds.

This shot is still of the man setting up his guitar, but focuses on his face rather than the guitar. This is to give a personal feeling to the man, to help the audience associate with him. This is at 14 seconds in.


The first frame is a mid shot that shows the man start to join in with the music, at a melody which starts at 16 seconds and ends at 21 seconds. The second frame is when the music starts to build up, at which point the camera will start rotating around the man playing in sync with the new rhythm in the song. This shot is so that the video picks up pace at the same point as the music.


The first frame describes the camera panning over a collage of pictures of female models with common sayings pasted over them, all in a collage fashion. This forms an association with the lyrics, which conforms to forms of music videos as shown in Goodwin's theory. This happens at 26 seconds. The second frame is a cut back to the man playing guitar.


This frame is a cut to the man in a different room singing. It comes in at 34 seconds, at the same point that the singing in the song starts, and shows association between the music and the video.


The first frame describes the man looking through a selection of guitars of bizarre and unusual shapes and designs. This shot happens at 41 seconds and will then fade to black. The second shot at48 seconds shows a snare block being hit in time with the music. Each time it is his it will flash up out of blackness, with an edit changing the colour of the shot. After each hit the shot will quickly return to black. This sequence will start at 48 seconds.

The first frame at 50 seconds is a close up on the face of a different man to previous shots. There will be a perspective change, an effect created by zooming the camera in as the camera physically moves away and vice versa. At 55 seconds he will put a mask on his face.

At 56 seconds a plume of smoke will come up in front of his face. This will be done using a smoke machine to fire smoke just in front of his face, then in the editing stage we'll speed up the shot to make it appear very fast.

At 56 seconds it will cut back to the artist singing in a small room, in sync with the song. At 1:01 there will be a cut to the masked man taking his mask off. While he takes it off there will be several jump cuts, to help add an appearance of motion to the shot.

At 1:01 the masked man puts a different mask on. When he lifts the mask up there will be an edit of the colour. At 1:05 there will be a cut back to the singer, this time a close up looking at the left of his face.

At 1:09 there will be a cut back to several pans over the collage of models, possibly with love letters resting on top of it.

At 1:12 there will be a cut back to the close up on the left of the singers face, as he continues a line from before. At 1:19 there will be lots of fast jump cuts between the masked man switching between masks. Between each jump the colour of the shot will change, giving a fast motion to the shot.


1:24 shows a cut back to the man playing guitar in the first room. The room will now be full of smoke, created by a smoke machine. The camera will rotate around the guitarist, and then get lost in the smoke. While it's in the smoke it will cut to the shot shown in the second frame, pull out of the smoke and come to rest in an over the shoulder shot looking out over a large room, as whilst the camera was in the smoke, the room that the shot is in has changed.

As the snare block is hit again, at 1:33, the last shot will flash into different colours, aiding the rhythm of the song.

At 1:34 there will be another cut back to the collage of models, this time with one of the masks used in other shots resting on it. The next shot at 1:41 will return to the singer in the room, this time with the guitars from an earlier shot in the background.

At 1:44 there will be a cut to the guitarist playing guitar, this time being a close up on his strumming hand. This will be in sync with the strumming of the song. At 1:45 there will be a cut to the guitarist playing a different guitar, and again at 1:46. These shots will be cut to the beat.