evaluation of story board and animatic

The reason for a story board is that it gives a clearer and more realist picture of what the video will look like in each clip/ The story board also should consist of an area where the clip has an explanation of what is going on, the length of the clip, movement, sound and lighting. The story board is used during the shoot day to help organise the shoot and so prompt you on anything that you might have forgotten as it includes everything that you need to do. Story boarding is an essential process that they use for every advert, film etc even in the real film business.
The story board allows you to really see how your video is going to look like which is also why annotating the story board is important as you can add even the most irrelevant things in it which could give you a reminder on the day, it is almost a neat note book.

For our story board we had to re-do it about 3 times as we did lay it out well enough and we also wanted to add other movements and clips in. We wrote down every small detail that we needed to remember on the day like, close ups mid shots, or even the colour or clarity that we want in that specific shot.

We also created a digital animatic of our story board were we filmed every clip we had drawn out and written and then used final cut pro to cut the clips we wanted to the time of our song.
This was equally as useful as we could watch it and see if there was any other clips or anything that didn't fit in as it is easier watching the imagining it.

Both these part play a really big role in our music video as now we can really see if our concept works with our song and that the clip lengths and style connect together.

This is our finished animatic, you can see how the structure of our idea has come along and that the shots fit in well with the song and ideas.
Obviously there is a weakness of an animatic because they are only rough drawn pictures and therefore can be hard to understand what is going on unless you have an artist that can draw really well, we tried to split the making of the animatic up, drawing and description part, shooting part, and editing the final clip, this meant that we all new how it would end up. Although you may not understand the images it becomes clear when you read the description on the edge which means that every clip should be clear to any reader.
We only had one slight problem to our animatic which was that we did not have enough shots which lasted long enough for the length we wanted out of our video. This meant that we had to add in clips that we had already put in for other section, we realised that this can be sorted out easily as on our shoot day we can add in the shots after we had planned what else we need in.