Our Storyboard - Evaluation

As a group we worked really hard for about two weeks on our storyboard and did it in insane detail. Most groups supposedly have about eighty frames, we have a ridiculous hundred and eight. Granted we have some issues where we need to insert some extra shots because having a wide shot directly after a wide shot isn't the most aesthetically pleasing.

It was really important that we did this storyboard in detail, so we were able to visualize our music video. This was helped further by turning it into an animatic.

We also have decided that the order of events is not right in this story board, so when editing our animatic we will have a play around with the order of scenes.

Sophia shooting the story board.

Annotating a story board is very helpful, and so there are frames on our story board where we have written "shh" as someone says it in that shot or we draw an arrow to show the movement of a chair. All this annotation will help loads on the day of shooting.

I think if we were to redo the story board we would have maybe tried to spend a little more time on the images. Although it's not about being a great artist (even Steven Speilberg draws his storyboards with stick men!), it does help quite a lot to have a bit more detail in the images.\

Shooting the animatic was a great way to help us see the direction our music video is going. We went into the studio and shot each frame, whilst the page was laid on the floor. From here we then took the footage up to the editing suite where we began to cut and edit, into the order that we think we might want.

Our many pages of the story board.

Charlie working hard, editing the animatic.