Animatic storyboard

As the next stage of our planning, as a group, we storyboarded the video before filming our animatic. The idea of an animatic is to visualise the video with the track playing in the background of our storyboard. We split up the track into three sections as we all wanted an impact on the storyboard. This worked because of our clear understanding of the narrative of the video and we all agreed what we want and when in the song we want it. In addition to the storyboard, it is only filler shots which we will incorporate when it comes to filming the video.

We filmed each shot for roughly the time it was storyboarded as and sometimes longer in order to make sure we had enough film time to last the whole track. Many of our frames were a square shape therefore we made sure we framed the shots with the camera as best as we could.

After putting the film on to Premiere Elements, we firstly watched our shooting through to make sure that we captured all we needed to before beginning to edit it in time with our track. To begin with, we cut the captured video so that we had a cut of each shot. We then had to shorten shots in order for them to be in time with the song, when we got the hang of it, this took little time.

We then put our Animation for The Scripts' 'Before The Worst' on Youtube. We can refer back to this storyboard throughout our filming to double check that we are sticking to the narrative.