Storyboarding Editing Process

We had several initial ideas that we drew up storyboards for, one of which was set in a sweet shop. We had army men as the dancers and the 3 band members worked in the old fashioned sweet shop. We had the jazz club scene in with this idea. We wanted our video to have a retro feel, with the old sweet shop and the clothes they were wearing and the uniforms the soldiers had, we were then going to cut to the jazz club which was also set in the 50s.
This is one of the sheets from our storyboard for our original idea:




We came up with the idea of having the narrative being the 3 female jazz band members being 'Crazy in Love' and going round committing brutal murders. We have set our video in 2 main locations, a prison and a jazz club. Cut in between are the murders. We have 5 different murders and after each murder there is a 'cheeky' mug shot of one of the girls who supposedly committed that murder.
We decided to incorporate a dance break into the instrumental part of the song, this is done by the prison guards and prisoners in the prison scene. We filmed shots of each individual shot on the storyboard and cut them together to the timing and beat of the song using Final Cut Pro. Whilst drawing up the storyboard we included drawings, location, action, movement/type, sound, editing and timing of the shots. This will make it easier when we edit the shots together on the timeline. We had to change the length of some of the shots as when we played it back, we found they were not all keeping in time. Shortening the shots and speeding up the tempo, created a much more upbeat and energetic feel to the video, which is what we wanted to create.
This page below is showing how older women would want to see themselves as younger more dangerous, so the fact that these women in the band are portraying what they want to be, is inspirational for them.
This is our final storyboard: