Animatics

We began our storyboard during a groups meet over the festive period. During this time we were able to finalise our ideas and began to conclude the length of the particular time zones as well as the relation to lyrics and time within the song. Mark focused on the practical factor of the storyboard and began to draw the start of the video as well as the final performance scene involved in our idea. We also discovered it would be easier and time saving if Sam and Ben were to draw their own ideas to create a clearer understanding. This meant by the time this discussion concluded everyone was clear of our idea and could add the finishing touches to our storyboard, we also regularly spoke using facebook to ensure everything was up to date and our level of understanding was still at an adequate level. This meant that when we came back to school our storyboard was effectively complete, however we found there were a small number of shots that had to be revised.
Once back at school we started to film the storyboard so that we could upload them onto Premiere Elements and create the animatic for our music. We are creating an animatic to ensure that our idea was suitable for our song as well as it allowing us to determine lengths of shots and to make sure that no shots were missing and there was no way to further enhance the video. It would also allow us to refine and modify our ideas efficiently so that the video would easy to film. It also gives us an idea of the number of shots that we have to shoot and the length of time we would have to designate to those shots. it was important that we could determine shot lengths so that when it came to the actual shooting of footage that we could ensure we had enough accurate footage for our video. It also allowed us to shorten particular frames ans stretch others, in addition to this we were able to visually see the speed of cuts in relation to the song tempo. This was particularly relevant to the performance aspect at the end of our video and we could see that our video analysis' were accurate in terms of quick cuts being needed throughout this sequence.

(Appendix 7b)