Animatic Comment

We created an animatic for our music video to enable us to see how well our storyboard and ideas fitted in with the music. We created a storyboard for the narrative which set out how long each shot and where it would be placed in the song so to cover all possible timing problems we would have. We then storyboarded our performance based side of the video. However instead of setting it out how we would have in the video we just drew some of the shots we wanted to use and then slotted them in between the narrative storyboard allowing us to move them around when it came to the animatic and fitting our ideas to the music.
We then filmed both the storyboards and exported them into premiere. When filming we filmed each shot for twice the length we wanted to use them for in case we needed to stretch a shot. Once this was done we added the music track and began to cut down and fit the video and images to the music. We found that although we had timed it fairly well when storyboarding alot of tweaking had to be done to ensure the beat of the song fitted the images. In hindsight it may have been better to do the animatic shot by shot rather than edit the whole video at once because when stretching one shot it would put the rest of the video out of sync. However after a while of tweaking we managed to finish our animatic.
Looking back at our finished animatic i think it will have helped us to alot of the work that we needed to do for the actual shoot because we can now easily fit in the shots to the music knowing how long each shot needs to be and also what looks best when fitting into the track.