Storyboard

This is the first few shots that establish the concept of the music video. It begins with no music and a young teenager is seen in bed who is woken up by his phone. He then finds out he is dumped and is upset about this. It then goes into a quick montage of him getting ready, Shower, getting dressed tying his shoes and picking up his keys and iPod leaving out the door.

Then it continues with no music, he locks the door and presses play on his iPod the the song "Up in Flames". This is when the music begins. With an pan going upwards to reveal the depressed teenager walking away, in editing stages I intend to fade in and out with the beat of the drum. It then follows the teenager crossing some train tracks, still fading in and out to the drum. The teenager is then seen sat on a bench with an arching shot to reveal the singer deliver the first few lines. After that the teenager gets on the train to walk past the singer. Then to sit down with the singer singing in the background. He then has departed off the train ad the singer is singing in front of him but the teenager doesn't seem to acknowledge he is there. This is because he is his conscience.

Then the singer and teenager are seen at traffic lights waiting to cross. It moves to the singer following the teenager down the street with over the shoulder shots and tracking shots. When the chorus kicks in the singer still follows and watches the teenager as he ignores him completely. This goes on till the end of the chorus when the singer gives way to him to carry on his life and thoughts. When it fades to black and into the next scene of the singers lips. then of the drummer playing the beat.

Then the scene consists of a arching shot of the piano into a shot of the piano and singer through the drummer using depth of field. Moving on to a close up of the keys playing the song. Then it goes back to the chorus and into a slow motion shot of my idea of water on the drum effect. This will be for both "up in flames" lyrics possibly with different angles. Once that finishes it moves onto the singer singing the next lines through flames. Then an arching shot of the piano on fire with the singer playing it. then the piano will be fully alight in flames. Then there will be a shot of a guitarist playing with his body silhouetted against the fire.

Then a shot of the singer singing the final lines to the camera through the flames. Finally the final shot of the singer walking away and a slow zoom into the fire as the song ends. A dramatic ending to a dramatic song.