A.M:Animatic response

What was your individual contribution to the storyboarding and animatic task?

>I drew the storyboard for the chorus. This included different shots of the dancers. Also I drew the shots for the green screen and a few for the rooftop.

>We then took pictures of all of our storyboard and I put them onto the editing software. We then ordered the shots and added the track to the footage.
We then cut the clips to fit with the song. This helped us realise how much footage we needed to film on shoots.

What have you learned from completing this process in terms of, camera - distance, movement and angle; editing - duration and transitions; sound - relationship between lyrics/sound and visuals, emotional colouring; Mise en scene - locations, character blocking?

 

>We have realised that we will need a variety of camera angles to ensure that we have enough clips to cut. As we want a very fast cutting rate we will need to have many angles of the same shot so that we can achieve jump cuts.

 

>We have realised that most of our clips have movement in them so taking a handi-cam and tripod to shoots is essential so that we achieve smooth professional movement shots.

 

>Clips on the rooftop are longer as there will be a slower cutting rate at this point. Therefore we will film longer clips at the rooftop whereas in London we are using a very fast cutting rate so long shots aren't essential.

 

>When filming on the rooftop we need to make sure that we don't have Isaacs full face ever completely in shot so that we don't see his gold make up on his face. Only the final revealing shot should it be seen. Also we need to ensure that the make-up is exactly the same in London and on the rooftop to keep continuity.

 

>When filming Isaac walking up the stairs we need to be completely silent so that we can use the diegetic sound of his footsteps, also we are going to record sounds of the cars and streets in case we want to use this sound over the top instead.

How else has this process fed into the development of your concept?

 

>This has helped us to decide how we are going to realise how we are going to reveal his gold make-up and gold bracelet.

How was this task more complex/different from the same task at AS?

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>t was more difficult to sync the cutting to the music. For the horror film we only had a time limit and it didn't have to sync to any music.

 

What were the challenges/difficulties of carrying out this task?

 

I>t was difficult to decide what angles we were going to film when shooting the dancers. We wanted a variety of angles and shot sizes.