Q: do you just go by memory when you make the video or do you draw out the scenes of the video (stroryboarding, i think) while writing the song?
A: the song is the entire audio for the video. so even just that, is gonna be a hugely specific guide for what happens in the video. Some of the additional visual details might be obvious choices just from the way the song goes, and others might not be. Also, sometiems it can be a very good songwriting strategy to imagine visual scenes, to help propel the songwriting. however, this is mostly just to help the songwriting, and i don't necessarily need to use those scenes in the video