Storyboarding: do's and dont's

This week, we began storyboarding our ideas for the shots we would like to include in our music video. 

The storyboard for our AS film opening was not very detailed. It had quite a few written annotations on it, especially between each frame on the paper, to show transitions. When filming, we found it really difficult to visualise what we meant in the annotations. However we did find it extremely useful to have the storyboards with us, even if we did  end up straying from them. Here are our storyboards from AS:

Music videos tend to have fast paced shots with a smaller duration and quick cuts, meaning there is a lot more camera movement. This means that our storyboards this year will be much longer; it is evident that we will need to storyboard in much more detail, as we need a clear visual idea of what each shot will look like when we go out to film. Hopefully this will make each shot easier to frame and position, so our time spent filming is done efficiently. Here are our storyboards from our A2 prelim, which we rubbed out and edited several times before we went out to film. All of these boxes were used for just the first 30 seconds of the song:

We have decided to use post it notes and pencils to storyboard our ideas, so we can easily change the position of our shots if our ideas/ narrative structure changes, as they did at AS and in our A2 prelim. Here are some pictures of us in the process of storyboarding, and our current storyboards:

Here is a quick vlog we did during our lesson, describing what we have included in our first few post-it notes and how we are finding the process of storyboarding: