1-5 Feburary

This week was the pre-visualisation week for our music video. We had a look at different music videos and how many set-ups there were used apart from the performance set-up. We also looked at how the music correlates to the video and made our own storyboards and animatics.

We watched a music video by Caro Emerald:


and we were given set-up sheets to list our own set-ups and cutaways.
Elliott and I thought of different ideas for the cutaways and set-ups here are some pictures of the set-ups we came up with:

(sorry the pictures don't work at the moment I will try to upload them later.)

We also looked at how the music waves can correlate (but not have to) to the music video. Sometimes music video directors cut their videos to the beat on purpose to create a special effect to the video. But often music video directors do not cut to the beat so that the video is not so predictable.



This is Elliott and me working out the timeline.

Towards the end of this week I drew a part of the music video as part of the storyboard.
But before we made the storyboards properly we had to work out shot we want in our video to occur. So we made a post-it storyboard/shotlist:



The post-it storyboard.

After we done the post-it storyboard I drew the proper storyboard.
Here are the pictures of approximately 40s worth of music video as storyboard.



(Sorry you have to click onto the pictures to see them completely)

As you can see the storyboard contains colour as well as some camera directions to set the scenes and make it more enjoyable to look at.


On Friday we created the animatic out of the storyboard. First thing I did was to take pictures of every single frame I drew and upload them into final cut.
We then put them onto the timeline and set markers where we want to have the set-up changed. We then arranged a few pictures we thought would be better at this certain point and cut them to the length we wanted them to be.

Here is the finished animatic:

I think that I did really well this week because I have done so much stuff and helped to get this music video to a better standard. I can clearly see now where this project is going because of the pre-visualisation week.