A2 Advanced Portfolio - Storyboarding

After Alec completed the script for our music video last week, Ben and I have began constructing the storyboards. Due to the plot we decided to spilt the music video into two different sections. Ben is drawing up the storyboards for the pre-'bomb' section of the video and I am creating the post-'bomb' section. We have done this specifically to show a clear contrast in style of direction, thus emphasising the difference between the villain's controlling 'Mainline' and the youths explosion of individuality. Ben's section will strive to keep to the conventions and capabilities when shooting in a silent movie style, including shooting in black and white. My section however will be in complete contrast and represent a modern style showing the clash between the two genres. This in turn challenges the way in which genres are perceived, and also creates a symbolic representation of the class system.
Villain = Controlling Upper-class
Henchmen = Bureaucratic Middle-Class
Youths = Working-Class

These semiotic representations will help the videos appeal to our target audiences, the younger half of our key demographic will relate the the generational representation and also supports their view that black and white movies are boring and stuffy whereas modern movies are fast and eye catching.
The older half of our demographic will relate to the idea of the class system and controlling force (Government) behind our society. They will also relate to the idea of the mainstream media influencing public consumption.


I initially went about creating my storyboards by playing the track over and over again in order to create a strong visual in my mind. From this I made sure that all my original ideas were in keeping with Alec's initial script and though he was more than happy to allow us to develop our own ideas I feel that its important not to change the original script, but rather work compliment and enhance it.

Here are a few of my storyboard sheets: