Storyboard Blog

 

Writing a storyboard for a music video was far more different than I expected. This took around 20 minutes which was way longer than I intended. The storyboard is a pretty straightforward chronology for the song. The storyboard begins at the start of the song where the main character Yon Yonson is introduced. He says "my name is Yon Yonson, I come from Wisconsin". This immediately shows what kind of story is going to be told throughout the music video. The second scene shows what the character does throughout his daily life. The second line in the song is "I work as a lumberjack there" which has a very simple meaning. This scene will be acted outside and the actor will chop wood.  The next scene takes place on the street where Yon Yonson is walking by. This once again is directly from the song lyrics. Going around to all these different places for recording is certainly going to make things take longer. In the fourth scene Yon Yonson comes across someone who then asks for his name. Yon Yonson then leads into a never ending loop that is shown in the last two panels. The final panel is exactly the same as the first further signifying that this song can loop forever. Of course it wont be looping forever but it could. With that all 6 storyboard panels have been explained. Together they weave the tale of Yon Yonson which loops forever. For each time in the video it might be fun to add a slightly different effect for the loop. The storyboard below is simple but it gets the point across pretty well, the person in green is Yon Yonson.