Planning: Storyboarding

My group and I made sure to create a good storyboard. Our blog fills up three pages of boxes with six boxes on each page. Each box represents six seconds, and we come up to one minute and 18 seconds total. The purpose of this blog is to thoroughly describe these boxes to have a clear understanding before we record. The video will begins with an establishing shot of all four members sitting together happily while the music plays softly in the background, allowing the music to emphasize the bass of the music. The second shot will contain the two other girls (Aaliyah and I) will comment on how good the song is. After this, there will be a shot of Lauren and Jahrvia singing the lyrics to a small part of the song found in the intro. This will be a two shot. A swipe transition will occur and the next scene is the transition from the introduction to the song. The shot will start in the sky where the title of the film will be displayed as well as our names in the bottom right corner.

It is at this point that the song begins, and the sky will begin to tilt down and then cut to a split screen in fours as opposed to two. This scene will have the four of us getting ready, and then a tracking shot of the four girls together walking to go into the car. There will be a point of view shot that will show either Lauren or Jahrvia driving to the location, after which we will have a ride shot of the girls dancing across the cross walk entering the Sawgrass Mills Mall, which will be a wide shot. The next scene will be a hand-held shot of the girls walking into the mall, and then another of us(the girls) in a cart, touring the mall. The first store we will film in will be hot topic. When in hot topic, there will be shots of us dancing and lip syncing the lyrics to the song. After this, we will enter Zumies, checking out the skateboards and shoes. We will rely heavily on pan movements for this scene. We will do a similar, less pan heavy shot of us in Foot Locker, after which we’ll do either a hand held or tracking hot in the food court browsing for food. The final scene will be of us playing video games in an arcade— there will be a full body shot of one person playing games, perhaps flipped, after which the screen will cut to black, quickly show us all playing video games again, and then conclude the video.