Learning to Storyboard

Creating a Storyboard for our Music Video Filming

For our final project we are to work in groups and film our own music video to the song of our choice. I am in a group with Jenny, Brittany, and Jamie. We are creating a music video to the song "Rocket Scientist" by the Teddybears. 

Last class, after we deciding on our song, we had to begin to develop a storyboard. A storyboard "visually tells the story of an animation panel by panel, like a comic book." Usually storyboards are sketched depictions, but we learned that we could also write it out. My group decided to print out the lyrics to "Rocket Scientist" and write what we wanted to film for each line. This gave us a general guideline to follow when we went outside to shoot and made it more easy to organize and note the different shots we wanted to incorporate into our music video.

We began filming last Thursday. Most of our shots were taken at the intersection of Coldspring Lane and North Charles Street. We worked with different camera angles and movements until we got the shot we ultimately were trying to achieve. We took a lot of footage, going off the principle that the more we have the better it will be when it comes time to cut and edit. 

We will be filming more next class in the GreyComm Studio located in Dorothy Day Hall. We want the chorus to be filmed in the studio so we can play around with different lighting and other shots.

"Rocket Scientist" is a pretty random, fast paced, fun song. Our plan is to depict one character, Jamie, who is pretty much having his own party and the camera is following him around. We are excited to see the final product. Day 1 of shooting was a ton of fun and a huge success!