Storyboard for Let Me Sign

This is our storyboard for the music video of Let Me Sign. This is an exact storyboard of what happens in our music video. However we filmed first and then created the storyboard from the video as our orginal idea was to film bits off all the group members individual storyboards and then keep what we liked best, which did work but then made it harder to create the final storyboard afterwards. Next time we will create the storyboard first and then film so we know exactly what to do and a rough idea of what it will look like. 

Let Me Sign- Robert Pattinson

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdIcP12Kd5k

This is the song we are using for our music video, we chose this song because our group really likes it and Robert Pattinson. We also chose this song because it is quite short therefore making it easier to make a video for it but also the lyrics tell a good story which is why we decided to do a narrative music video based on the lyrics. Also another reason is Let Me Sign doesn't actually have a music video so it now has a video made by amateurs.

Gadget Show Music Video.

In class we watched the gadget show music video to inspire us to create our own music video in groups, in the style of narrative, performance or abstract. The women on the gadget show chose to do a performance video and she had the use of a band and lots of professional equipment. Whereas the man chose to do an abstract video and he only had use of normal average equipment, which proved you don't have to have expensive, top of the art equipment to produce a music video. It was also a competition between the man and the woman and their music videos were judged at the end of it by two judges who then decided the winner, which resulted in the women winning it in the end.


http://fwd.channel5.com/clips/show/make-a-music-video-complete

Three types of music videos.

Narrative- A narrative music video is a video that tells a short story during the duration of the song. This can also be linked to the lyrics and a story can be built from a song and then shown in the video. 
example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4y-RzVGrHg 

Performance- A performance music video is where the band or singer actually sing the song in the video and you can see them doing this. 
example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76RbWuFll0Y 


Abstract- A abstract music video is where the video has no link to the lyrics and can be seen random to the viewer. 
example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrO4YZeyl0I 


However just like films having more than one genre a music video can have more than one type involved so it can be a narrative music video but also a performance, as it can be telling story but also the singer could be singing in it at the same time. 

Let Me Sign, Robert Pattinson

For the preliminary task we was asked to create a music video in either narrative, performance or abstract way. My group (Summer, Shelby and I) decided to do a narrative music video based on the song "Let Me Sign" by Robert Pattinson. This song also worked in our favour as it doesn't currently have a music video to go with it therefore everything we planned in our storyboard are our own ideas.  Our teacher, Rebecca suggested filming in the park nearby, Chantry park so that is where our location of our music is. The group also decided that we would like a boy to be in our music video as the song is a love song between two lovers, therefore meaning we needed a lover for Summer who is also in the music video. 


The group knew what kind of a boy we wanted to be the lover however finding one that fitted the match wasn't so easy! In the end our teacher, Rebecca yet again came up with another idea that we agreed with and that was to use my boyfriend Jack to be the lover in the video. Summer wasn't so keen complaining it would be awkward but with persuasion from me she agreed and Jack agreed to be in the music video. The ideas for the music video came quickly as we listened to the lyrics of the song and then came up with different ideas which fit the lyrics of the song. Such as when Robert sings "standing there by a broken tree" the location of the park came in handy as there was a tree that looked broken and twisted so we filmed that. Also the lyrics " I will wrap you in my arms" we agreed on a long hug to be shown while Robert is singing the lyrics. 


The day we filmed was a windy day so the wind was effective for the music video and looks great when we watched it. Also the sky looked moody and a little bit dark that day so that also fitted in with the mood of the song so I quickly filmed that and we used that at the start of the music video.