Storyboard - Safwana

This is the rough storyboard of our initial ideas for our music video, we had a change of ideas for our music video, we started off with looking at the psychological affects of dreams and the meanings behind them, we were going to portray these in our music video and have reference to Inception the film, however during the process of story boarding, we began rethinking out ideas as they looked very complicated. Therefore we started from scratch and we came up with the idea of having a girl suffering from anxiety and depression, we did not want to remove all the ideas that we had previously, hence why we decided to keep some of the shots and change the narrative.

previous idea 

previous idea

At the beginning of the Music video, we will have a black screen which then fades into a time-lapse of the sky, this will represent the change in time, this will symbolise the world and everyone in the world moving on in comparison to the girl who is stuck in time as her anxiety and depression is holding her back from moving forward.

We will then have another black screen which fades into another shot which is of drawings in the girls bedroom, showing she has an interest in Art. Art is a subject that allows one to express their emotions creatively, we want to show that the girl has nothing but art, and she expresses her feelings through art. The camera will be a close up, with one image focus while the rest are unfocused, the camera will pan to the next shot which shows the girls hand putting up another painting on her wall.

Then we will almost have an establishing/far shot where it will feel as though the audience are standing behind the girl and seeing what she is seeing, what we can see in this shot is a wall full of paintings and she is looking at her work, feeling very depressed and then this transitions to the shot of her putting on a jacket and leaving her house, the camera here will follow the girl leave the house, so throughout the video, the audience will feel they are behind her watching and seeing everything she does, making us a part of her life and reality.

We may then have a black screen once again, this may change, but we will have a creative shot of which will be on the floor, the camera will not be in focus at first but it will slowly go into focus, where it will have an object such as a leaf in focus, we will change the subject from the leaf to the feet, and we are able to see people walking in the foreground but it will be unfocused and blurry.

After we will have a shot of a puddle, and again we will be making use of the focus, this will allow our video to look professional, this puddle will show it is a rainy day, and be an example of pathetic fallacy, is this will represent the gloomy, depressed feeling that the girl feels. We will then have the girl step into the puddle, and there will be a far shot of her in the same location.

The girl goes out to explore the world, while she does this she will encounter many couples, and children, everyone seems to be happy, we will have shots of what the girl sees, as we can see above in the story board, she will see a couple holding hands, and she realises she is alone, she then encounters a child who looks very happy, but she is unable to feel that happiness as she depressed. This will be done in an open green park, and this will allow us to have many creative close up shots of tree barks, and have a time-lapse to show the shadow, again showing that time is moving.

We will have light flares, and the camera will make the light look blurry which then focuses into a silhouette of London bridge, this shot will consist of the sunset, the colours will look very vibrant, and if the camera is unable to capture the full depth of colour, we will enhance the colours on the computers. There will then be a time-lapse of the girl looking directly at the camera, while everything will be moving around her, this shot will be the most important as this will portray exactly how she feels, and what effects anxiety and depression has on a person.

Finally we have the girl at home, she takes out a canvas to create another piece of art from what she has learnt from the day, we will have a few cuts and close-ups of the paintbrush, the girl begins to pain but she is unable to paint, as she has flash backs of what she saw today, it all becomes too much for her to take, and these shots will be fast distorted shots of the previous shots of the couple holding hands and children swinging etc, at this point we have a very distinct beat in the song which gets faster and the shots will be in sync with the shots. Lastly the girl will drop her paint brush and this will be in slow motion and then she begins tearing down her work due to the anger and pain she feels of being alone. Then we will have a birds eye view of all her torn work around her and her sitting in the middle, crying. The camera will show a close up of the torn up art work and it will pan to the right, off the screen and we will finish with a black screen, and credits. This will leave the audience to wonder what happened next.

These ideas may change over the course of creating the video, we considered using photographs instead of paintings to make it more relevant to contemporary society, however we understand there is more meaning when drawing art, also we wanted to make use of intimidate cuts when she has flashbacks.