Analysis of storyboarding

Drawing our storyboard overall was not too hard but did have some difficult aspects to it. Drawing each shot was quite easy as we had already planned out already what shots we were using and the scenes in each shot. This demonstrates the fact that advanced planning of a timeline helped us formulate our ideas in advance and helped us work out what we wanted to draw for each shot in the storyboard. However, what was particularly difficult was trying to portray exactly what we wanted to show just through a simple drawing. It was hard to capture exactly what we wanted in each scene. For example some of the pictures had to be drawn in some detail in order to show this and this we found quite difficult. Therefore rather than going into detail for some shots we decided to draw stick men as this enabled us to speed up the process and also replicate some of our images twice for different parts of our song. One of the most useful aspects was being able to visualise our ideas on paper as we could see the images together that we had in our head. As we developed our storyboard we changed some of the narrative element in our shots which was quite easy to change however we had to make sure it fitted with the shots we already had and the timings for them. We also included some images to show drone shots which we would like to use however these may have to be changed later on as we have to assess whether they will work well or not.

The next target is to film the storyboard and see if we have enough shots to last the duration of the song. In order to do this we will create and animatic and cut the storyboard to the beat of the song. We have 70 images so far. To cut to a song that 3.5 minutes long therefore the average shot duration will be about 4 seconds which may be too long, we will see when film this.