Storyboard Choices

Shot 1 - Band Setting Up

We have chosen to include a shot of our bad setting up the equipment before the music starts to give a sense of authenticity to the video, also the use of ambient sounds give it a really natural effect. The genre indie is all about live performance aspects so we wanted to get that in there early and set the genre.

Shot 6 - Guitar Close Up 

This shot is a close up on the guitar doing one of the solo's, we have wrote in big letters 'cuts on the beat'. We want to have the cuts on the beat to capture the energy and make the viewer feel apart of the video by giving it a real smooth professional effect.

Shots 8 - 12 - Facial Expressions

Shots 8 to 12 are 4 quick 1 second shots of the band members faces in the performance aspect and the actors face as he begins running on his journey to find his girl. We have chosen these shots as the calm expressions on the bands faces will contrast with the concerned male actor and emphasize his worry about his girl.

Shots 13-17 - Girl Moving 

These shots we decided would be ideal to show the audience how uneasy the female character is and also show that time is passing,and she is getting impatient waiting.

Shot 19 - Guitar Playing

We wanted to show flashbacks of the relationship between the two main characters and this is the first in the storyboard. As the lyric is 'beats are made for two', we are going to show on screen the two characters proportioned in the shot, while the male is effectively making 'beats' while playing on his guitar. The important aspect of this shot is the equality shown between the couple, that they both matter and love each other,

Shot 38 - Chest Out 

This shot was the one our group spent the longest debating over purely because we wanted to get it perfect, we had so many ideas what we could do with the lyric and it really allowed for alot of creativity. We decided on having a collision between the male actor and the bystander, with the bump of chests happening as the lyrics is sang.

Shot 40 and 41 - Controversial 

The lyrics which are in time with shot 40 and 41 is what almost stopped us from being allowed to use this song all together, with reference to drugs, sex and even swearing. We wanted to still use the song, with the promise we would play down the lyrics during the music video. So for the drugs reference of 'rocks and browns', we have used the shot of whiskey on ice, implying the rocks is ice and browns is the whiskey. The sex reference 'fu*king the whole town' we have played down subtly with a male walking out a room while the female is laying in bed.

Shot 59 - Rian's Idea

After seeing this edit in a two door cinema club music video a lad in our group Rian has been obsessing about it and to his luck there was a part of the song which would fit the slow motion edit perfectly. The concept is the lead singer singing his line in normal speed, with items in the background moving in slow motion. He even filmed an example video to prove to me and Jack it would look good in our music video.