Story boards

Farzana Begum.

In order to ensure that this final storyboard will be a success, I decided to analyze it as i would with any real music video.

As you can see my music video starts with the main artist walking through the door, I want this simply done , as I want her to walks right through the camera, and then her back towards the camera of a very long shot, this is to show the audience what she is wearing as this covers the RnB codes and conventions of fashion, she is wearing a tight hot pink and black dress witch leggings and matching black shoes. The color she will be wearing have been chosen by me deliberately as they emphasize my artists feelings, black present the darkness she is in as she is having problems keeping her marriage together. In other words, from the start of the music video I will try and show the audience what the video is about, as I will try and prove this by making her walk tiredly when she is walking through the hall way to show that she is tired of life, and everything she is going through.

This is then followed on by her walking up the stairs, towards her bedroom, as then she finds a note stuck on her door which says her name on it. This is to show the audience, who is going to sing the main song, which is her, the artist. which was from her husband, however normally the next footage will be of her reading the note, which I don’t want her to do, as I want the audience to wonder what was written on that note.

As she then opens the door, we then find out this is followed by her lip-syncing that introduces the artist into the scenario, as it dissolve into a flashback five minutes later, this may confuse the target audience, therefore to not get them confused the flashback will be in black and white to emphasize it is from the past, something that she is imagining and reminiscing while she is singing the song. This is clearly demonstrated within the Raxstar music video - ‘Jaaneman’. The flashback are laid out as 2 minutes each and then put back to the artist singing, this is simply because I do not want to bore the audience, by putting all the flashback together and all the lip-syncing scenes together, therefore I have mixture the scene to give some excitement to the music video and my audience when they are watching it.

The first flashback is recorded in the bedroom, to emphasize the love, however the story line is twisted as the female artist is trying t get her husband’s attention, however he doesn’t seem so bothered and is not interested as he is too busy reading a book. even though the female artist tries her hardest to get his attention, where their is a point she gives up and throws a pillow at him, and tries to run away, before she could he tries to grab her hand and bring her closer, the camera will be zoomed onto the hand to show the love. Lastly my featured artist pushes her husband and runs away.. this will be done on the part of the lyrics were it says ‘so sad, you’re hurt..’ which emphasizes that his hurt when she pushes him onto the bed.

This follows on when the next shot is of her lip syncing again, this time in a different room which is the kitchen to show the typical stereotypes of an female in a marriage relationship always being in a kitchen, the lyrics fit in as she tries to emphasize that her husband is not caring for her, this will come back around as he will be the one that regrets loosing her.

After another flashback starts, as they present and are an evidence to show why she decides to leave him at the end, they show that she has been abused, constantly hurt and isolated, as one of the flashbacks show, the husband on his laptop, just came back from work, and she enters the room asks if he wants coffee, he told her nothing and to leave, later she tries comforting him however he tells her to get out the room, this then leads to an argument were they are screaming and shouting at each other. I want my camera movement to be chaotic to emphasize the anger and hatred between them, as then she cant take it anymore and leaves the room with force.

The camera is now cut to reality again, as she is sitting at the corner of a sofa, waiting for her husband, as they planned to go out and enjoy the night and try and work some issues out, she looks at her phone and is very frustrated as her husband has not called her, this shows that she is now tired of waiting. This scene is only 10 seconds long, however it is very important as this is the part of the video, she decides that she wants to leave her husband.

The camera transitions used in the next few scene are mainly zoom in and out, this is to show the facial expressions on my featured artist, after she left the room, the camera has zoomed in onto my artist ready to leave, it shows her ring which she is planning to give back to her husband, therefore the camera zooms in and out of the ring. After this, the camera shows a long shot of my female artist, and if you notice at this point she would have changed her clothes, this is to emphasizes that she is leaving all her old things behind to presents her past, and the tears she had dropped for the love she deserved. She slowly walks through the hallway, to show as she walks she is walking away from her past and walking closer to her future.

when she leaves, her back is towards the camera, as she shuts the door right onto the camera, and then the camera draws to the ring left on the table for her husband to see, which shows that she has left his life forever, as she cannot take anymore of the pain.

To end the video, it was important to leave a message, and it was as the husband walks into the house, him seeing the ring and getting all worried as he realizes what he has lost, his wife. the camera shows his facial expressional as he walks into the sitting room, and sits down, showing the ring to the camera, as the camera ends up to a black background to show that the music video has ended.