Animatic Evaluation

Storyboard’s are incredibly important in order to find out what the video will look like exactly, and it also brings some potential problems to light.

This was apparent when I made my first animatic on Final Cut Pro, I made the mistake of cutting the shots together before syncing it to the track. This was problematic because each cut was not to the beat of the track, which made it look clunky and disjointed.

To overcome this, I started from the beginning. I put the track in, and then began marking the cuts in order to link the shots to the track. Overall, I was left with quite a successful looking animatic.  However, I could see that having some literal shots, that linked with the lyrics was not a good idea as it became muddled up with the timings, therefore would crop up in places irrelevant to the track. 

I would keep the majority of what features in the storyboard, in the final product. However, I would certaintly not keep the literal shots as they became disjointed and irrelevant to the track. I would change the shot lengths also, as some of the shots appear for far too long, and as it has quite a fast paced beat. This was another weakness of the animatic because as you can see in the video some of shots are too long, therefore I would cut faster in the final edit of the pop video. However, I think it would be good to break the pattern of the beat and have slightly different cuts away from the beat, and then slowly coming back into the pattern.

I think it is difficult to show a star image through a storyboard, and as amateur storyboard artists we struggled to get across all the canted angle shots we plan to use. However, with the boom box, colour wall, and DJ Decks I think that we created a brief window into the image of our artist. 

Doing the animatic myself has been very useful in learning what order we are going to do things, such as syncing the track to the shots before cutting the shots in order to match the cuts to the beat, breaking the pattern in structured and planned way. Futhermore, it has been incredibly useful reminding my self how to use different editing softwear, and especially in learning how to make my skills relevant to editing a music video.

The next editing related task will be how to create animated words, and colours to come out of the boom-box and to appear across the screen.