Music Video Storyboard

For the production of our music video, we have to sketch a storyboard to give a brief layout of what the video will look like. The most important feature is not the drawings themselves but the description, since I need to include as many camera shots, angles, compositions and any camera movements from one cut to another.

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Last night I did my filming of the performance part of my music video. I met the band at 3pm and we set all the equipment up on the school's hall stage. However we hit quite a few problems which we managed to eventually solve: we kept setting the school fire alarm off because of the smoke machine (which we were going to use since it makes the lighting more effective) so eventually I forgot about using it and did without. Also, the PA speaker system wasn't loud enough for the band to hear (since all the speakers were facing inwards to the hall, away from the stage) so we had to get a small monitor linked to my iPod and play the music full blast to them from behind.

Despite the problems I got about 50 minutes of filming done with many camera shots and angles that I can use to put together a full performance video. The band also helpfully gave me some good ideas for the narrative part of my video, so I can start working on that while I edit this work together.

Meanwhile, I have started drafting digipac Cd covers for the song, which I will upload to the blog and can develop them from there.

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I have now finalised a time for my filming and so I can get that work done with the band shortly. I have also added my own photos and explanations of digipac music albums, as part of our research and eventual creation of our own digipacs for our music videos. I am now going to draft up 3 digipacs on paper, so I can experiment with any of ideas and get the designs sorted.

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This Pendulum's album In Silico, with the digipac cd case it comes with. It comes in the conventional plastic see-through case, but insiead of just a front cover, it has this fold-out double sided leaflet. On one side there is the band information, song listings and lyrics, while on the other there is this large image of an alien spaceship, which fits with the theme of the album of extra-terresterial visits.

This third type of Digipac again shows how you can get the same results (displaying all relevant information and additional photographs/images) but with a different layout and style.

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This is the ACDC Iron Man 2 album, another official soundtrack to a movie. Again it comes in a shiny smooth cardboard case but without any pages this time, only two slots where the cd and booklet are kept. The included booklet though contains 16 pages of band information, track listings and high-quality photos of ACDC and screenshots from the film Iron Man 2. It also follows the same conventions that all music albums do with the track numbers and song names included on the back cover.

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For our music videos we also need to create Digipacs for them- i.e. the cd cover and contents which comes with the CD itself. This is any information and photos which are related to the album, and here are my 3 examples displaying different types of digipacs on offer.

Here is Michael Jackson's This Is It album, the official soundtrack to the King of Pop's same-titled film. It comes within a card case with over 18 pages containing detailled pictures, the track order on the two discs and information on who wrote and helped produce each song. the Cd's are located in tight holders at the front and back appropirately. The cd listing is also located on the back of the case so that customers can see what tracks it contains, allowing to see before they buy, a media convention that every music album confines to.