Storyboard

After we decided we wanted to do a narrative and had agreed our location would be Weston - Super - Mare, we knew we needed to draw up a storyboard as quickly as possible. Luckily both me and Amy know Weston very well, so we could write up the storyboard in very accurate detail. As a typical convention of indie-pop videos are the use of short quick clips we knew it wasn't going to be an easy task. It ended up being 10 pages long, and we didn't have time to illustrate it until after we got back. However this proved to be quite useful as it gave us the opportunity to recruit a local Bristol artist, Jonny Wilkinson, to illustrate it for us, as sadly mine and Amy's drawing skills are not really up to scratch. This means that it looks amazingly similar to our video and is a great end result. 

We took the storyboard with us on the day of filming for reference, so we knew the locations we had to definitely go to film. We will also have it with us through the editing stage, so we can match it as accurately as possible, and keep the style of the short, quick cut clips.

Storyboards are the best planning tool to use, as they simply go into as much detail as possible. Once the storyboard is created, the media product starts to come to life. They are essential for any media product, and all directors use them. Alfred Hitchcock was apparently  the first director to start heavily relying on storyboards, he was enthusiastic and consistent with his use of them. Since then, they have become a vital part of any media product's creation. 

Below is an example of his infamous movie Psycho and the storyboard he created before he began filming in 1960.