Animatic Feedback

Because of the music video nature, we needed to play the track over the animatic. This was difficult to do as a music video needs to be very dynamic. As a result there are several shots such as a scene in a garage, and of the two girls sitting on a bed which needed to be referred back to a multiple of times. It would have been pointless to draw out each of the small changes for every few seconds passed, so we panned the camera to different shots to fill parts such as the chorus and instrumentals whenever nothing of significance was in shot.

It was mentioned that the animatic wasn’t clear enough in areas and the group and me agree. It’s difficult at this point to offer precision above that of stick men and simple sentences. Whilst we have a good idea in our minds of how the video will turn out, we’re unable to fully get the idea across without more detailed text and imagery. The scenes are explained in text boxes next to each image, but for the short amount of time each image is in shot, it wouldn’t be very helpful to see unreadable text fly by.

For shots where their are to be many quick cuts and invisible editing, we wrote down next to each frame ‘Shot compilation, quick editing, etc.’ Although this isn’t majorly demonstrative, not even we know yet of all the ways we will be filming on the day. Judging by where we are filming, we will undoubtedly find many different angles and camera positions that were not known of before-hand, and we shall use this to our advantage.

The animatic also failed to include a few more recent ideas that we came up with after filming it, and so these will be explained closer to filming. It was not uploaded straight away because of errors uploading the file, and so with the fourth time in trying, it successfully uploaded.