Evaluation of Animatic Storyboard

This week we have been editing our animatic storyboards in order to get a better visual of what our final product will look like. 

Storyboarding (in my opinion) is essential in any type of media related filming project as I believe it is an important stepping stone towards the finished product as it can give a better idea of what it should look like and can raise unknown factors/problems that previously haven't been brought up. By adding the extra layer on animation to it, it can really highlight what the product will like and is useful to see whether it looks good, if it's too receptive and whether you have enough shots.

The process was very helpful for my group and I as we were able to work together and edit which meant we each established a role and it showed us what it's going to be like in a few weeks.

I think we have done very well with the editing as a whole as I feel most parts are well edited and cut clearly with the beat. We worked well as a team and our final animatic storyboard is good. I especially like the parts were the beat drops for around a second and then it cuts to a closer shot within the shot. This was a new editing trick that we all learnt along the process and I feel it gives our animatic an edge and we can put forth this in our real product. 

However, there is one weakness myself, my group and Luke/Paul/Matt/James noticed and that was in most of the animatic we revealed too much of our set too quickly meaning that for the audience they may of seen too much by the first 60 seconds. We discussed that we will obviously change this in our real product by leaving some of the 'big, main' shots towards the 90 second mark.

We really liked most of our shots we put into the storyboard, however as I've mentioned previously, we will defiantly be revealing some of the more extravagant shots of our outside locations later on in the video in order for the audience to remain interested in our video.

I think we did well representing our star image and most of our classmates really enjoyed the song and video. They especially like the female lead and the relationship towards the male.

In conclusion, I would say that overall I really enjoyed editing the storyboard and it was so helpful to compare as it has given me a greater insight towards what our final product is going to be like when editing it. I have learnt a few new techniques for editing and am defiantly looking forward to the next couple of weeks.