STORYBOARD

By Sofia Baluch, Vickie Hoyle and George Hage.

For our music video for “Feeling Good”- by Muse we wanted to create a video with

high impact because the dramatic sound of the song. There were many different

ways in which we could make our music video as dramatic and after much

discussion we finally came up with a plotline that we wanted to do for our music

video.

We decided as group that we wanted the story to be based around a newly engaged

couple who have a incident with a mugger leaving one of the seriously injured. We

thought that the context of this story would fit in well with the song, and would be

interesting narrative to follow.

Our music video was inspired especially by the work of Michelle Gondry and his

effective use of split screen. Because we really admired his work we wanted to try

and recreate this in our piece. To incorporate this in our music video we decided that

we wanted to have the perspective of both the couple and the mugger to give an

interesting viewpoint on the story, instead of portraying form one side of the story.

BASIC PLOTLINE

Because we were also portraying the viewpoint of the mugger we wanted to add an element of surprise to the story. Instead of portraying the mugger as a completely evil character we wanted the audience to fell a bit a of sympathy for him. We decided that we would do this by portraying the mugger as a father struggling to pay the bills and being forced into crime to provide of his family. We wanted to reveal that the muggers true intention wasn’t actually to hurt anyone he just needed the money.

To make the video more visually interesting we also wanted to have the muggers perspective in reverse so that we could see the event which led up to the mugging.

Because we had a split screen we decided that would we differentiate the different perspective by having all of the couples shots as odd numbers on the left hand side of the screen and all of the muggers shots as even numbers on the right side.

It was quite difficult to draw to story board because I had double the amount of shots to draw because of the split screen. Also because the perspective of the mugger was in reverse I had to write all if the shots backwards and make sure that everything made sense, otherwise the story would not make any sense to audience and be very confusing.

Overall I am very happy with the storyboard and think that it clearly shows the

story that we are trying to tell the audience. Because we have been so thorough

we the storyboard and the descriptions of the different camera shots I think that it

will be very easy to film when it come to the production part of the project as we

have a clear direction as to what we should do.

I'm very pleased with the way in which our project is heading and hopefully this

will continue through the remainder of our project.

Left Side- Couples Perspective Right Side- Muggers Perspective

*Here we were going to have a scene of the

mugger outside the restaurant looking at the

couple the window however after discussion we

decided to go against this.