Task Four - Understanding the Techniques of Music Videos – “The Pretender”

For this piece of work I created a short storyboard from a small section of the song 'The Pretender' by The Foo Fighters, for the small sequence we were told to do between 20 - 25 seconds and see how much shot variety there is in this music video. When it came to doing the storyboard we chose a starting point and drew it onto our storyboard, every time there was a change of a shot we would drew that down and do this every time it happened. Once I had done the time of 20-25 seconds I had to turn my storyboard into an animatic by taking pictures of my storyboard and uploading them to Adobe Premier Pro and making a video out of it.

When I was creating this storyboard I realised that shot variety plays an important part on when you are creating a music video especially if your music video is going to be fast paced. If you were to have a few shots and only changing them every so often it will leave your audience bored of the music video, however if you were to add a lot of different shots then you are more than likely to keep your audience engaged and get them to think what will come next. When it comes to knowing about your mise-en-scene, this also plays an important part seeing as it will need to match or make your music video look good.

With my storyboarding, for the music video I started to draw on the storyboard at 30 seconds and finished at 50 seconds.