Story Board - Creating Animatic

After settling on the setting of our music video and picking the various actors/musicians for the video, we vegan to work on our storyboard to understand where we would be going story-wise/performance based. Originally we didn't think it would take us that long but this process actually took a lot of time and we didn't believe this until we got down to doing it.

We started to continuously listen to the song, sometimes only a second at a time, and then write down what cuts and shots we should use. We had the idea of having a live band perform inside a church. The idea being that it would work with the theme of confessions and secrets. My group and I also thought about incorporating a confession box into our video so we was preferably looking for a church with a confession box, but we soon found out that many church didn't have one and that the idea was mainly incorporated within America.

As we began to create a storyboard in sync with our song, we realised that we needed far more cuts than we first planned. Also when reviewing our confession box idea it was unlikely to work well with the rest of our performance. The first reason for this was that the churches we had looked into did not have a confession box, also when we had began working in final cut, we found that the video was working well without the confession box.



As we progressed through our animatic, ideas came from all over the group about what we could incorporate into our story board. There were many disagreements during the process but eventually we found something that pleased everyone, which was setting up the background with candles which spread around the scenery. With this the mise-en-scene keeps to the natural flow of the music, which is calming at first but ends with the dramatic build of which we associated with the singer blowing a singular candle. It'll be much like This.

Within the group, Jamie and I listened to our song, and Elliot worked on listing shots and idea son a rough piece of paper. I used Elliot's notes and started asking Jamie to draw the angles and shots that i was describing. I also made note of the timings for each shot and their duration. I also began taking pictures of the shots and placing them into our final cut animatic. Elliot then listened to the song along with the images that we had drawn and pointed out flaws or weaknesses within it.

The image on the right shows some of the progress we have made with storyboard. as you can see the images we have put together and the piece of paper we used initially to record ideas.After we made it to around halfway through storyboarding the song, we took photographs of the images we had drawn in-case we lost any sheets, and then began to upload them onto the computers. We then began to edit them into final cut along with the music, to see how it was looking so far.