Storyboard Version 2

Why I Changed The Storyboard:

I decided to change some of the scenes as feedback from my target audience informed that they thought some of the scenes didn't quite work well. This is because they thought that some scenes didn't fit with the pacing of the song. As a result I have changed those scenes with some new fresh ideas that will work with the narrative.

Storyboard:

1st scene – Cutting on beats in my pitch-black room of different objects, slowly getting towards myself on the computer, distorted angles. Slowly creeping up behind me effect.

2nd scene – Student in room listening to mainstream song, on vevo, close up onto hits, wishing I could sing. Room in pitch black, only light coming off the screen. Layer sequence of famous person over the top, close up of their face layered on top of my face – The famous person layered will have a low opacity on top so that my face is visible.

3rd scene – fear – fear of the dark - achluophobia. Long shot from eye level to show a guy walking towards a crossroads a night. Cut to a POV, first looks down main road pathway, then look right to a dark alley where Tomi appears in dark clothing looking sinister, low angle shot empowers him with aggressive facial expression, cut to a reaction shot of myself looking scared, followed by a medium to long shot of me walking down the main road pathway. Looking scared works with “My names Blurryface and I care what you think” – I will wear Wearing jumper, jeans, and jacket with hood up, don’t want to be noticed or to stand out, connote insecurity. Use high ISO, if doesn’t work use a torch/ flash.

4th scene – Close up of old pictures of myself + shelf of trophies from a long angle. Cut on beat to a close up tracking the fast movements of the drum sticks whilst playing the chorus. Quick cutting to show multiple close ups of the sticks movements hitting the drum, with a few medium shots to show that I am actually playing the drums.

5th scene – Close up of myself on a black background with black contact lenses in, tilting my head to the left saying “We’re stressed out.” Quickly shown, like a horror movie jump scare, foreshadows the ending.

6th scene – Close up of water rippling, leaves blowing then pan the camera to look up to the sun. Fade to black. Medium-close up reveals a match being lit, then light a candle. Blow candle out and record smoke coming off the candle to sync with “Probably only sell one.”

7th Scene - I shall be in my room, sitting at my desk looking at a picture of my “brother” and myself, the camera will be positioned so that it records an over the shoulder shot of me looking at the picture, followed by a close up of the picture itself, this connects to the lyrics “Give it to my brother”. (Extreme close up) Slowly zoom into my face then I close my eyes, fade to white, followed by a flashback of the brother and myself skipping stones across a pond, filmed from a long shot at a low angle, then fade back to white. This sequence links to the lyrics “a stone’s throw from creek we used to roam”. The Camera then zooms out from my face (Extreme close up cuts to a medium-close up recorded from a high angle), I put the picture down, sigh and look sad then cut to an over the should shot of myself browsing on the computer whilst I log into my bank account, followed by a close up of my bank balance on a computer screen, shows no money in my account, cut back to high angle medium-close up position, then my head falls into my hands.

Scene 8: On the 4 beats of the base drum, jump cut to 4 different close ups showing stressful facial expressions of myself, with my head in different positions, moving around sporadically whilst sitting at my desk pulling out hair and screaming etc, camera will be eye-level. Each jump cut will be on beat with the base drum in the song.

9th Scene – “My names Blurryface and I care what you think”, Long shot of myself walking at night filmed from behind me. The camera will be positioned in a bush to connote someone watching and following me. The long shot records me walking for about 2 seconds, then I turn around, then cut to an extreme-close up of my eyes to reveal an uneasy and scared facial expression (Eyes move around quickly and sharply). Cut to long shot camera again to show myself turning back around, cut to a medium shot of myself where the camera will be further down the alley but it will be in front of me to show myself putting my hood up, walking quickly and putting my hands into the jumper pockets – body language connotes fear. Fade to black to end scene.

10th scene – Close up of a clock showing the time, ticks for 3 seconds, then put clip into reverse and when reversing use black and white filter. Cut to a low angle medium shot of myself deconstructing the drum kit, play it in reverse so It looks like I’m putting the kit together. Need to use a wide-angle lens to record. Cut to myself playing the drums with lots of close ups of the sticks moving.

11th scene – Cut to myself lying in bed in my room, the camera will be at a high angle looking down at me filming a medium-close up, whilst I sing the words “We used to play pretend, give each other different names, We would build a rocket ship and then we'd fly it far away, Used to dream of outer space but now they're laughing at our face,” then a close up cut away shot will reveal my mum coming into my room and a POV shot will shot her saying “Wake up you need to make money” which will be synced with the song’s lyrics. Then jump cut twice on the two snare drum beats to show myself rolling over in the bed from a high angle medium shot. A close up will reveal me lying on my side and the camera becomes eye level with me whilst I sing the verse. When it gets to “Wake up you need to make money” cut back to a close up POV shot of mum saying those lyrics, then camera tracks my movement as I lean up out of bed, I then look directly into the camera (eye-level close up) and say “yeah” to sync with the song as it talks about finally waking up. Then fade to black.

12th scene – Multiple close ups of the drumsticks whilst I play the drums, ranging from high, low and eye level angles with fast paced cutting on the beat.

13th scene – (Chorus) Cut away shots of sunlight, rivers, playgrounds and swing sets – abandoned, filmed from low angles to empower them, stronger feeling of nostalgia. Cut on beat at the end of the chorus to next scene.

14th scene - Reveals an eye-level close up of myself on a black background, as I slowly look up and make direct eye contact with the camera to show my black contact lenses, then jump cut on beat to a high angle medium shot of myself rocking back and forth whilst being curled up in a ball, not looking at the camera, then jump cut on beat back to the eye-level close up showing sporadic head movements and the effects of stress, possibly screaming, then cut on beat, next shot shows myself slowly pulling up my hands into the shot showing a handful of money, I slowly look down at the money then back up at the camera whilst singing the final chorus, then cut to black. The money prop links to the song’s lyrics saying “wake up you need to make money” as it shows that I have made money but the effects of the stress culminated during the journey to reach this goal are evidently displayed.