Seeing as I plan to produce an entirely conceptual, montage style music video for Static (Get Out My House) I found it difficult to design a traditional storyboard because there isn't any real narrative (apart from change in visuals following change in music). So I decided to divide the song into 3 sections, depending on the sounds, lyrics and speed of the music, and construct a mood board for each section (each section is around 1 minute long). The mood boards contain found images of location and shot types that I am planning on using in my music video. This will give me a reference to look back on as I go along and is a useful way of visually producing my ideas. Also, as I have created these mood boards virtually (using thinglink.com) it will allow me to edit them and add new ideas as and when they come to me. Hover your mouse over each individual image to read the link.
The first section is the introduction and build of the song, it is mostly instrumental and the pace is slow and light with a calm mood. Section 1:
The second section of the song is a lot louder, faster and has heavier bass than the first section also it contains a lot of repetitive lyrics. To link this music change with the visuals I want to speed up the pace of editing and use a lot more visual effects in this section. Section 2: 
The third and final section of the song slows down again and the music and instruments slowly fade out. To form a relationship between this and the visuals I want to make the shots last longer and editing pace slow back down. Section 3:
I think this is a perfectly acceptable way in which to visualise your intentions, especially as you write about shot type, camera angle, etc. It would be a good idea next to the post title to say (hover of images for text) so that the external examiner will know to do this - just in case they are not familiar with "thinglink". Well done.
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