Practice Task 02: Planning a Music Video- Storyboard Task

Practice Task 02: Storyboard and Shooting Script 

Bad Girls Club- Falling in Reverse Storyboard

Shot 1, House Party-

 Zoom from wide shot to mid c.u. during the first 7 seconds of speech, lighting should be low-key with the lead singer (blue) in the middle sitting on a rundown couch. 8 conventionally attractive women (pink) surrounding him dressed in a skimpy but grungey way. The lead singer should look around with an anxious but seductive look, the women should be surrounding and crowding him whilst partying and laughing with drinks. The camera should reach just the lead singers face by the line 'bad girls club'

Shot 2, Morning After-

Jump cut to the same mid c.u. of the lead singer but with high-key lighting and without the women, sitting on the couch. His hair should look messed but and he should look hungover. He lip syncs to the camera 'I met a girl and I really thought she liked me' passionatly with direct address. He wears black and silver jewlery and has scruffy, dyed-black hair and has neck tattoos visible. 

Shot 3, School Corridor with lockers either side-

Camera cuts to a school corridor where 3 attractive girls (pink) dressed in alternative but fashionable clothing, walk down the corridor in slow motion. This is a wide shot, the lighting should be natural and the girls walk towards the camera without directly addressing it. there should be extras (green) dressed as normal school kids, to create a school atmosphere and they stare at the girls as the girls walk past. In the bottom of the frame is a cool nerd standing with a pile of books. This happens on the lines 'I truly thought that'.

Shot 4, Attractive girl waves at nerd in the corridor-

Camera cuts to a moving mid, p.o.v. shot following the nerds eye-line following the girls side profile. Camera is focused on the girls and the background is blurred, the camera follows the girls and the one on the end waves at the camera (the nerd). She waves on the phrase 'the one'. 

Shot 5, cool nerds reaction-
Camera cuts from the wave to a C.U. of the cool nerd looking shocked and this zooms out to a mid-shot of the cool nerd dropping his books. This sequence takes place on the lyrics 'it was fail' then zoom 'to no avail'. Then camera pans round for shot 6.

Shot 6, band in school corridor-

The camera pans around from the cool nerd to a shot of the whole band in the hallway for the line 'I'm just another victim of the bad girls club'. The band give a passionate performance like they were performing live. This long wide shot is similar to the one of the girls walking down the corridor but is just at the other end of the corridor. The lead singer (green) and band (orange) all have instruments and are dressed grungy. 

After the line there is a dramatic strum in the music so there will be a jump cut to the lead eletric guitarist strumming. 

Shot 7- House party, all drinking and socializing with low lighting-

P.O.V., pan from the perspective of the cool nerd. He looks around a wild house party and stops when he sees the group of girls (from the corridor), this is on the word 'hypnotising'. All the extras are dressed up for a high-school house party and are acting like conventional teens, drinking from non-descript red cups. 

Shot 8, the girl that waved, calls over cool nerd-

On the lyric hypnotizing the camera cuts from the P.O.V. shot to a mid C.U. of the girl waving and calling over the cool nerd. The lighting is still low-key like a normal party but the background around the girl is blurred to keep focus on her. 

Shot 9, Sequence of C.U. of the girl and nerd flirting-
There is a sequence of fast pace C.U. shots to give the idea of flirting. These consist of laughing, touching arms and generally interacting in a suggestive way. Any of these shots containing extras have them blurred out to keep focus on these two characters. This sequence plays over the lines 'she made me drink a poison just to fall in love'. 

Shot 10, Nerd goes to get a drink-

This sequence is similar to the flirting one with lots of fast-pace C.U. shots but showing the nerd going to get more drinks. The mise en scene is a basic kitchen with lots of empty bottles and cans. This fast pace sequence plays over the line 'she got me drunk, tipsy off her love'

Shot 11, The attractive girl makes out with jock- 

This is a mid C.U. of the girl that the nerd was flirting with, kissing another guy. The idea being that she was doing this while he went to get the two of them more drinks. 

Shot 12, The attractive girl wipes her lips-

The crush is seen wiping her lips on the line 'bad girls club'. The guy she kissed is behind her but blurred out. 

Shot 13, Full band at the party-

The chorus plays out with the same extras and the band playing. There is a sequence of fast moving shots to give a concert atmosphere and the sequence occasionally shows the cool nerd looking sad but everyone else having fun.