Storyboard

One of the first things that we created was the storyboard, this was one of the main parts of planning for the music video, it allowed us to plan out the structure of the music video and it allowed us to design how we wanted the shots to be filmed. The story boarding of the Music video was how the final idea was established.

Luke was the main artist for the storyboard and he would draw the shots that me and Ryan came up with, we all contributed to the whole structure of the video and to the narrative of the storyline.

We decided to have an introduction to the narrative of the music video, this introduction would make the situation a little clearer for the audience, hinting towards the two of them being lovers and then showing the audience that they are just friends.

Page 1 (Below) of the storyboard involved the two friends sitting Cara's bed watching a film, this intimate setting will suggest to the audience that the two are lovers, Cara will look into the boys eyes and smile showing that she is in love with him (as seen in shot two), the boy will receive a text message from an unknown person and then will tell Cara he needs to leave (shot 3 & 4). The boy will then give Cara a friendly hug (shot 5), Cara will then be seen playing her guitar and the music for the song will start.

Storyboard page 1

Page 2 starts off showing a hidden transition in the video, it will be initiated with the boy walking past Cara, he will be very close to the camera making the shot turn black (shot 7), he will then move out of the way of the shot revealing Cara singing on a wall (shot 8). Shots 9 and 10 show Cara sitting on a wall playing the guitar, as the boy walks off Cara follows behind him. The next two shots show Cara following behind the boy as he walks towards his friends that he meets on a pathway, these shots will be shown as the pre-chorus plays (see the lyrics post).

Storyboard page 2

Page 3 starts with a shot of Cara circling the boy and his friends, this shot will be projected behind the band for the warehouse shots (shot 13). 

Between shots 13 and 14 there will be lots of shots in the warehouse of Cara and the band playing the song. This hasn't been story boarded as a lot of the shots will be the same and we decided it would be too time consuming to draw each individual angle for all of the band shots. These shots will last for all of the first chorus.

Shot 13 marks the start of the second verse, the shot shows Cara and the boy walking on a path and pushing each other in a teasing way, a girl will then come into shot waving towards the boy who will start walking toward this new girl. Cara will carry on walking without realizing the boy has left her side, she will then turn back and look for him (shot 15). There will be a shot of the couple hugging who will move out of frame to reveal Cara playing her guitar behind them (shot 16 & 17). Shot 17 will end with Cara nodding her head to her left which will initiate the whip pan that will end with Cara playing behind the couple who are on the swings (shot 18).

Storyboard page 3

Page 4 starts with shot 19 as Cara kicks the boy off the swings, we thought this would make the video a bit more light hearted and fun for the audience. The girl who is on the swings with the boy will jump off and go to help him (shot 20), this shot will be another that is projected on the band but this time it will be for the second Chorus.

Again we will go back to the warehouse for the second chorus.

Shot 21 shows what we will be filming for the slight instrumental in the music video in this shot the boy will be standing in the middle of a rock formation (resembling stone henge hence the name), Cara will then walk anti-clockwise around the boy as she sings at him, as Cara is walking around the boy, the camera will be moving clockwise around Cara. I thought that this concept would look nice on camera as it is a bit different and could look visually nice.

For shot 22 see the Coda Page (after the picture below).

Shot 26 will consist of Cara telling the boy off as she sings at him, this will be filmed against a white background to make it look as if it isn't real and to make it look a bit dreamy.

Storyboard page 5

A coda in music is a part of the song that repeats itself, this coda consists of 4 repeated lines. For the coda we thought it would look good to have Cara singing a single line in each of the locations of the music video ending with her in the warehouse.

Storyboard Coda page

Changes to the storyboard

Before filming the introduction, Myself and Ryan decided to make a few changes so we added another page to the storyboard, this page contains 3 more shots that will be added/replace other shots to the intro, the first shot we added was to have Cara already playing the guitar while the boy was behind her on the phone. 

Ryan thought that it would be nice to have an extreme close-up of the guitar while Cara played it, as this would be a better way of starting the music.

The third shot that we added to the storyboard was of  the boy on the phone as we thought that this would make him look rude and insensitive towards Cara's feelings because he is on the phone to another girl while he is supposed to be 'hanging out' with Cara.

 

Storyboard changes

I thought that it would be a good idea to have the text that the boy receives to come up on the screen, rather than having a shot of the boy with his phone out, this would be easier to read and would look nicer on the screen, this would be similar to how the television series Sherlock does it (see video below).

We also decided that we would change from Cara sitting on a wall  in shot 8 to her sitting
on the back of a bench as we could get a much nicer looking background. On the bench we would be able to see a lake, which we agreed would look better than having her on a wall with cars behind which is what we would have seen originally.