Essay for Mr Seal

My essay is on a powerpoint presentation, which it wont allow me to post on here, it is on a USB stick which i carry everywhere, if Mr Seal/ Ms Barton could help me put it on here it will be seen :)

Music Video Story Boards

This is the first of my rough Story boards.

It basically shows our main character sitting around and waiting for someone. He then turns and sees a girl saying something, this reminds him of his girlfriend, its 'the kind of thing she'd say' in relation to the song title and lyrics. Then theres a flashback of the main character and his girlfriend having fun together, laughing and looking lovingly at eachother.

At an instrumental he plays the guitar looking depressed and thinking about his girlfriend.











This storyboard shows our character looking depressed and avoiding and ignoring the friends who try to comfort him.

This ties into the lyrics, "What you leave for? Everyones here."
He leaves his friends and family, walking through recognisable area's of Norwich, which remind him of his time with his girlfriend.



He goes to a graveyard, where he lays a rose on his girlfriends grave as the sun sets.




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This is my more detailed story board. Again it shows him sitting in the park and time going by. We can show how time goes by with the movement of the sun and lighting, so the light is going to be ambient. We want a high angle shot of him and the tree, this shows he is a sad, character who hides himself away. The high angle emphasises this as his hair will cover some of his face.

He see's another girl saying 'The kind of thing she'd say" in relationship to the songs lyrics, which instantly changes to a flashback of his girlfriend saying the same thing. We want a close up of both girls' faces, and preferably in exactly the same location/position to emphasise the similarity between the two girls. We also want to have it as a tilted shot, so that it looks more distorted in the flashback.

The scene changes to a party, which we'll shoot in the Hewett common room, where a group of friends are having a great time enjoying themselves, and our character cant stop thinking about his girlfriend not being there, and is standing alone. We want a pan/ high angle shot here to show the amount of friends enjoying themselves, in contrast to our character who isnt.

He looks up as someone is leaving out the front door, which reminds him of the same situation of his girlfriend leaving, cue another flashback. We will have a tilt shot of the distorted flashback, again we want the flashback to look as similar as possible to the reality, so same shot type, location and movement.
It then cuts to our character playing guitar in the instrumental, in his room, alone, with low lighting. This shows he's cut himself off from the world and wants to stay in the dark. This will either be a close up of the guitar to fit in with the instrumental or a low angle shot, almost as if we are watching him as he plays on stage.

He looks in the mirror, and thinks he see's his girlfriend waving at him as she once did, and turns to see noone there. We want a close up of his face as he realises he's alone, which we hope will make our audience feel for him.

In our last scene we have an extreme close up of his crying eyes, which cuts to him putting a romantic rose on his late girlfriends grave. We hope to do this as the sun sets as it signifies here spirit leaving and will fade the light out for the ending.