Lyric Sheet & Storyboard

This blog consists of the storyboard of the music video project, component 3. This blog was made by our team member (me) Tisha. 

Storyboard 

A storyboard is used to plan how visuals will appear within a media product. It is especially important for this project because music videos often rely on a clear storyline to convey meaning. Creating a storyboard helps to organise the plotline and allows the audience to understand the message and feeling that is being shown more effectively.

I have created several storyboards in the past, including one for my previous documentary project, which can be found here:
https://tisha-regentsmedia.blogspot.com/2025/08/storyboard.html  (This is a link that will open my blog that consist my previous storyboard)

Draft Idea

Before I start on making the storyboard, me and my team decided to sit together while listening to the whole song to understand how the mood will change throughout the song.

1st draft idea that was made as a group

After this discussion, we decided to start creating a simple plotline that will happen in several places as we are planning to show dates from the couple. In which this is the final draft that I focus on to create the storyboard from.

Last draft idea of the music video discuss as a group

Lyric Sheet Idea

As music videos create their story / visuals that they want to show not in order, this would mean that creating a storyboard for this project would be different from my previous storyboard that I have made. So we decided to plan the whole music video based on the lyrics of the song.

Lyric Sheet by Jyotisha

From this lyric sheet planning, we can see how the draft ideas started to come to life by arranging them to fit the song lyrics, which eventually developed into a full plotline. Making this lyric sheet was very useful because it allowed different scenes to be planned even if they were not in order. It would have been difficult to draw scenes that jump between different moments without following a clear sequence, so the lyric sheet was extremely helpful.

This process in creating the lyric sheet made the overall idea of the music video become easier as I could experiment with how each scene connects to the meaning of the lyrics.

To create an even deeper understanding of the lyric sheet me and my team decided to create a whiteboard. This whiteboard purpose is to add visuals like photographs and videos that matches the idea from the planning inside the lyric sheets.

Lyrics Sheet Storyboard by Jyotisha

Online Storyboard 

Storyboard template that was given by my teacher

As my previous storyboard was hand-drawn, I decided to explore other methods to create a clearer and more easily visualised storyboard. That’s when I found an online application called ShotStager, which allowed me to present my ideas in a more organised and professional way. The platform includes useful features such as simple scene layouts and camera movement previews, which helped me understand how each shot would look in the final music video.

Here is how the ShotStager interface appears:

ShotStager interface appearance

As you can see, this version is much more complete and the process of creating a digital storyboard was very effective and I enjoyed working with it. The digital tools like the marker to draw the simple location and the camera movement and character placement helped me visualise the camera movement and camera angles that I have used in the scene which strengthened my overall planning.

Here is the final online storyboard I developed in the application ShotStager. I included the song in the background to help create a clearer sense of the mood and pace that the music video will follow.

The online storyboard with song

Final Storyboard 

Even though making the online storyboard was very useful with all the features, there are limitations like how the location and props look like in the scene. So I decided to also hand-drawn the storyboard as it allows a more in depth visuals of the storyline and plot but only the visual and not how the camera movement is seen in the scene. 

This is the final storyboard of the music video.

Hand-drawn Storyboard by Jyotisha

 

Reflection: Creating this storyboard was very fun and exciting as I was able to use a new application to explore my creativity in making this blog post. I believe in making this storyboard and lyric sheet was one of the ways for me to become closer to my new team members and understand their perspective as well. Overall it was a fun experience but at the same time it feels very tiring to do both online and hand drawn storyboard because it took so much time to finish it. But I was able to do both on time, but I believe my hand-drawn storyboard was not the best that I have done because I did it in a rush. The only problem when making this was that I didn't have a extension that has a pen to connect on my laptop to draw on ShotStager so I had to use my touch pad in which again it takes so much more of the time in creating this s storyboard.