Music Video Storyboard Blog

My group and I did a storyboard on the music video that we have been planning. We are going to film this later, but the point of the storyboard is to have an idea of what we want to film. We had fun coming up with ideas on what song to pick and what the theme should be. I did not draw the storyboard, but our whole team did contribute to the ideas. The storyboard consists of what props we want in the music video too, including a Publix lobster tank. Our song that we picked was "Rock Lobster" by B-52. We believe this song has the perfect combination of humor and a story that can go behind it. 

The storyboard starts off with a man sitting on his towel at the beach. He hears music and then realizes that there is a lobster with a boombox in front of him. He gets annoyed and gets up and walks away, but soon realizes that there is another lobster dancing in the distance. He gets nervous and splashes water on his face to make sure he is not seeing things. However, it happens to be sea water and not normal water. He spits it out because of the saltiness. The man is now feeling harassed by the lobster and runs away and tries to get help. Then the storyboard shows many shots of the lobster dancing to the song "Rock Lobster." We hope to include footage of the live lobster tank at Publix in our actual video. The beach goer comes back and gets a chef with him. The chef puts the lobster in the pot and the song turns off and the pot is carried away. 

We will use many camera angles that will make the scenes look better. At the beginning we were thinking we would have a medium shot on the beach goer and the lobster. When he gets up we will have a two shot because we count the lobster as a person. An over the shoulder shot on the life sized lobster in the back ground. A medium close up on the person drinking the salt water. An extreme or regular close up on the tag of the bottle that says "salt water." We will have a wide shot on the shore as the beach goer runs by. We will have a wide variety on shots when the dance/tank scenes are show. With the lobster tank, we will have a pan from one side to the other. Finally, when the lobster gets put inside the pot, there will be a close up on the pot and the lobster rand the music will end.