Storyboards for Music Video & Narrative

I produced my story boards on a whiteboard with black marker, and took photos of these as i went along. I found this easier to demonstrate editing techniques (shown below the picture) and other simlple information about the shot (such as Animation vs. Real life, or the colour of the shot).

Animation:
The animation sequence we decided should come first, leading to the real life section.
It will contain the following 7 shot-storyboards, depicting a wolfs journey through a wood scene, made with stop animation and shadows.

These first 3 storyboard shots show the introduction of the music video, presenting the band name and song title. The band name will be presented as stars in the animation and will come across the screen. Then the shot moves down to show the title, on a scroll of parchment. The camera "zooms out" to show the parchment as it flies off with the cut out birds holding it up.

These next 2 shots consist of the wolfs journey through the woodland, with additional small generic details to make the shots more interesting. This includes the saxophone and the trilby hat plan on the 2nd picture. We also plan to add in additional features such as a squirrel, owl and birds.

These last shots of animation show the wolf encountering a special part of the woods, and entering inside a tree (which will eventually lead him to the real world, and consequently the real life section of our music video). We plan to end these with a shutter black out from the top and from the bottom, to give the appearance of the wolf blinking. This will then lead to the real life part as it is shot from the wolfs point of view.

Real Life:

The real life section of our video will follow the animation video, linking the animation and video with the style of camera work and the type of shots. We decided to use the camera as the wolf's eyes as "Wolf-cam" to continue from the animation.

These first shots of the real life show the wolf exiting into the real world, and encountering the actors that will be posing as the band members. This will be shot from the wolfs point of view with a hand held camera. The wolf will interact with the band members through green areas and down a sunny road.

These last shots of the real life will show the wolf leading the band back into a source of light, which will be the entrance to the other animate world. This will be done from a dark room to an extremely bright room so that the contrast is correct, letting the light engulf the band members as they exit the real world. The wolf exits last, and the doow closes to a blackout on the last beat of the song.