Planning for Music Video Including Memento

The first thing I did was brainstorm what I wanted the music video to look like, and then I made it into a storyboard. It was messy and disorganised as I was considering a million different ways the video would put together as well as the ways I'd do it, and then adding bits and pieces of other ideas. To be honest at first I had no clue what I was going for but within a day I had a plan for what I was going to make.

Ultimately, to explain my idea concisely: I was going to produce a music video of me playing the guitar singing two songs (Star Shopping by Lil Peep which would then segue into a song named 'nuts' by the same artist) with visual symbolic references - the main one being my necklace I got her last year. There would be other short clips such as messages we exchanged etc to give an idea of what our relationship was like.

Below is my storyboard in my A5 notebook I scribbled roughly as a summary of my ideas:

I roughly drew each scene corresponding to each song lyric in Star Shopping (the song), very roughly, might I add, it could not be any more messy than it is. The bit at the end was a part I hadn't had a chance to jot down in the notebook but I had a clear vision of what it would look like and sound like. The transition would be slow and gentle, a break in the music and then the chords and the beat come in for the final part, which would then trail off like an echo.

The orange strips over the storyboard panels represent bits which I would have to film with the assistance of other people. This was only if it was absolutely imperative, as I wanted to have full control of what the outcome would be like. My friend Natasha and her mum helped me with some of these shots.

On the second page, the final shot I was referencing was when the second song comes in, a shot of someone wearing the necklace I got her. The specific lyric that this was about was a line that goes 'Put it on me, that's the best part, baby, the trust, trust me, I've got nothing for you other than love,' wherein I would reference the necklace with those lyrics as a symbol.