Animatic

When we filmed the animatic we used an iPhone camera as we found that it was easier to handle while taking the different shots such as the tilt down shot rather than a camera.
We made sure the shots we filmed were cut to the beat of the music to ensure the video will have a clear flow to help the narrative get through to the audience. We found out that the close-up shots took too much time from the song, therefore we decided to have less close-up shots and more mid-close up and long shots to help the viewers get a better understanding of the storyline while taking less time. Therefore filming the animatic helped us to see which shots worked and which shots didn't for various reasons, such as not having the narrative portrayed the way we wanted to, or that the timing of the shots didn’t work as they took too little/ too much time out of the song.

Furthermore it gave us a better idea of how the different scenes would look taking into account the timings of the different shots as well as of the different scenes, as some scenes had higher significance to others as they helped the viewers understand the narrative and therefore needed more time out of the song. Moreover it helped us decided what kind of camera techniques we would use such as the 180 degree rule to help the viewer get a clearer vision of the location.Overall we feel like our animatic was able to capture the different locations well, as through the animatic you are able to tell we have a range of locations.

One thing we did well in our animatic was speeding up the shots when it was getting to the climax so you can see the storyline progressing, up until where the breakup is portrayed. We tried to match the pace of the shots to the beat and tempo which we did well considering an animatic is hard to portray this. Then as the breakup occurs you can see we tried to show that we will slow the pace of the shots down to mirror the slower pace of the song. An issue that we thought about was during the bike scene we have make sure that each time we film them on the bikes, they start from the same place each time; as we want to be able to film the bike scene using a range of shots including wide shot, mid shot and close up. This could be overcome by putting markers on the street to indicate where the bike ride will start.