Lyric Sheet & Storyboard

This is the lyric sheet and storyboard for our project. The lyric sheet is done as a group and the storyboard is done by me and Bagas.

Lyric Sheet

These are the notes that me and my team made in the lyric sheet to map out our ideas for the chronological events that will take place in the music video. We used brief descriptions to save time but it's enough information so we all know what will happen in that part of the song. We continued writing ideas throughout the lyric sheet and end up with a summary of how our music video would turn out. 

Note that not everything stated in here is final since we might adjust in the filming/editing process in order to produce the best results.

Storyboard

We then started our storyboard to further visualize the plan of what our music video would look like. This includes the type of camera angle/movement; the mise-en-scene used to convey meaning (such as the actor smiling to connote a happy mood); sound used to match with the scenes; and the edit. As seen that this is the storyboard that has the most details and has the least amount of boxes, this was graded therefore our teacher told us to draw any part from any scene that we have thought of and draw it on a storyboard. The scene we have chosen is the beginning ( where our star just woke up).

After the first drawings each paper has now 8 boxes. The drawing looks less detailed and there isn't much text , we chose this format because its easier to do and draw. It also saves time for the team as here we can make it less detailed.  In this part this is where the star will spend good time with the female actor.

At this part of the storyboard this is where our main star will have good times with the female actor while playing basketball.  However its started with the two actors then it suddenly became the main actor alone to demonstrate the isolation that bagus is feeling.

This is the turning point of the storyboard as this is where all the negative moments arise. from the breakup to our main star distancing himself from the female actor.  ( this scene was revised by my teacher and we all liked his idea ) Our old idea was to use our main actor breakup normally with our main star feeling sad. However my teacher said it lacks meaning and no message is given to the audience. He proposed the idea in which the same setting and scenes wll be used however with different expressions, this time with the female actor acting more angry towards our star to make them seem like they are about to break up. We all accepted this idea and thought it would be an interesting concept to do. 

Finallly this is the ending of the song where the main actor starts to let go of everything. ( Which was also revised by our teacher )

Self Reflection:

The lyric sheet helped us to lay out our ideas throughout the song so that it is clear what the end result would look like. Then we made the storyboard to further expand on the ideas and drew images to visualize the end product even more. This gave us a clear sense of direction on what we're trying to make and these 2 tools acts as way to convey the narrative to our teacher so that he can give us feedback about it. Speaking of feedback, he suggested that our music video should have a message at the end so that the video has a purpose for the audience to watch. Based on that, we took his advice and adjust our narrative accordingly. We as a group decided that our message was that: Don't be with someone who doesn't want you and you have to move on with life, no matter how difficult it is'. There are many ways I contributed in both the lyric sheet and storyboard. For the lyric sheet, I gave my thoughts and opinions about the chronological events that would take place in the music video. I suggested that we add some scenes to show the contrast before and after the argument with the girl (main actor wakes up drowsy, doesn't open the curtains, and overall looks messy for school). Then for the storyboard, I was the one who made the detailed version (with the description on the side) since I have experience doing it in my previous project. However I ran into the problem of me being a perfectionist and this leads to erasing mistakes after mistakes and result in taking way too long to complete 4 boxes in the storyboard. I knew this would burdened me too much so I decided to ask Bagas if he's willing to finish the rest of the storyboard, in a brief manner (pictures doesn't have to be so detailed). He then accepted my offer and he took over for the rest of storyboard. During this time, I improved my brainstorming skills which I utilize during the discussion about events that would happen throughout the lyric sheet and also learned that progess is more important than making everything look perfect, since it doens't take too much time and as long as my teacher knows what I drew, the details doesn't matter as much. Next time, I will delegate the storyboard making role to Bagas instead because I believe he gets the job done in a shorter amount of time and result in us finishing the rest of the project alot faster.