We used the classic children's story of 'Little Red Riding Hood' as inspiration to create a storyboard for a music video.
The storyboard incorporates some iconic narrative elements of the tale but it is presented in a disjunctive and disjointed style, making it seem more like a music video. Whilst we were story-boarding, we kept the song 'The Pretender' by Foo Fighters playing on repeat in our minds, as not only do the lyrics relate to the story, but the technique helped us to envisage how the song would fit against our imagery and constantly reminded us that we were trying to avoid a logical sequence of images that made perfect sense and to aim for a disjunctive form instead. Furthermore, we added in various frames of band performance (e.g. - close-ups of musical instruments) and really thought about how to make our sequence as dynamic as we could imagine, so we sketched in line arrows to represent character movement and block arrows to signify camera movement.
By the end of this process we managed to achieve twenty frames of abstract, artistic imagery which constructed our storyboard for a music video. In addition, to make it seem even more disjunctive and detached from a conventional narrative, we asked one of our class peers to take away around half of our frames at random. We then arranged our shots back in order and we found that our sequence could still be shot effectively, due to the broken-down style and abstract nature of music video in general.
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