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Planning : From Treatment to Storyboard

Once you have committed an idea for your music video to paper in the form of your treatment, you need to move on to the process of storyboarding.

We know that the exam board are very keen for evidence of this stage of planing to be provided in a more complex and detailed way than for your AS production work. This means that you will need to dedicate quite a considerable amount of time to it.

The storyboarding process is vital as it shows your journey towards the creation of a finished product. There are, however, no set rules regarding how your finished storyboard should look and we will not be using a template like we did last year.

Here is a guide to how to go about storyboarding a music video provided by Independent Music Advice.

If you are not artistic enough to draw your storyboard you could consider taking photographs or, perhaps, using one of the web based storyboarding tools such as Storyboard That.

Animatics - Yes Please!

I would like all of you to be able to produce an animatic as the end product of the storyboarding process.

Here is an explanation of what an animatic is taken from Robert Safir's book titled 'Make Your Music Video and Put It Online'.









Here is the animatic and completed music video for Gorillaz and their song 'Dirty Harry'.







Here are a selection of animatics produced by Media Studies students.