Animatic Evaluation

A storyboard is a set of drawings which outline what is going to be seen on screen for either film,tv or in this case our music video. This is done normally so that the people know what they need to film, how it looks on the camera but for us it was especially helpful for practicing our editing before doing our real music video. 

Storyboarding is a very important process because it allows people to organize all the shots, how they want them to be shot, how long for and outlines what needs to be done for the day. It can also be helpful when editing the real thing because it is always something you can look back to refer too. 

I think that the key moments which represent our animatic are all of the people auditioning with the expressions of the judges mixed in. One of the really positive things i thought about our storyboard is that even though our group are not the best at drawing people seemed to get the concept of our video anyway. 

The good thing about our animatic was that we had plenty of shots. The media department said that once in the editing suite we wont have any problems because there will be so much film we will be able to use. Another positive aspect of our animatic was that generally we were always cutting to the beat although this could be improved on a little bit. Although I think that one thing we need to work on is having a wider variety of differently shot types because they are mostly all the same. 

The main elements of our storyboard that we will keep in our music video will be the collage of all the different acts happening throughout the video. Seeing only quick shots of peoples auditions throughout the music video leading to the build up at the end. Also most importantly another aspect we will see throughout out music video is the performance of our group which will mainly be the female singer. 

One of the lessons that I have learned through doing this animatic is that it is important to have a plan. For example when putting together our animatic we had our timeline help us and I think that when we are editing our animatic will be really useful.