Storyboards

We created a storyboard to help us prepare visually for what we want to accomplish with the music video.  This will benefit our group by helping us stay on target and on time. Also it will help us to be prepared when it comes to filming and will make the flow of the video much smoother. TTT-Train Track Tracie. Band-Oats.

Treatment

TREATMENT

“Train Track Tracie”

Locations:

-Crouch end (Northern Heights)

-Queens Wood (Forest)

-Metropolitan line train and station

This music video will be shot using a digital camera. The video will be performance/narrative with the performance scenes being shot through high colour contrast and the narrative being shot with a grey filter.

Scene 1

The music video begins with the lead singer on the train falling asleep to the rhythm of the train.

MS of the lead singer

SC to a CU of the lead singer’s eyes closing.(Diegetic Soundtrack of train passing. Natural lighting.

Scene 2

SC to a GRAPHIC MATCH of lead singers eyes closing then opening. The lead singer slowly opens his eyes to find himself lying on an abandoned railway platform.(shot out of focus, then gradually becomes in focus relating to the dream sequence, and the lead singer’s disorientation)

Scene 3

(Soundtrack fades into the band’s song ‘TTT’)

SC to the band playing in the woods

CU of drummer

Scene 4

SC to a LS of lead singer rising and noticing a female (Dressed in a white dress,slightly torn and muddy, illustrating purity and innocence)

SC to a MS of the female ‘Tracie’ gazing towards the lead singer

SC to a CU of lead singers face

Scene 5

Chase sequence, never quite catching the girl.

HA of Tracie gently running whilst looking back at the lead singer.

Series of Tracking MS of lead singer walking towards the camera (Editing will be fast forwarded to emphasise the dream sequence state.)

Scene 6

Cut away to LS of band playing. CU of band members playing instruments when they are prominent in the song.

Scene 7

HA of lead singer searching for Tracie. SA looking at the Tracie’s feet walking past.

Cut into a Low angle hand held shot, circling the lead singer.

Scene 8

SC back to the band; a selection of shots compiling of CU’s, MS’s and high/low angles etc specific to the register and tone of the song.

Cut in and out from performance to narrative of music video will continue for majority of song.

Scene 9

Lead singer nearly catches Tracie as she slows down to meet him however, Tracie becomes slightly transparent almost ghost like.

SC into the CU of their hands almost touching

SC back to the real world (lead singer is sitting down where the music video began)

A slow pan to the left to show the female reading a novel; she tilts her head up to catch the eye of the lead singer.

END.