Animatic

This is the animated version of our story board, created by both Billy and myself. I drew the storyboard whilst he filmed them and added the music, then together we edited the shots into an estimate of our video. Making an Animatic was beneficial to us in our planning, as it enabled us to imagine what our video would look like before we started filming. After creating this, I realised we had to reconsider our scenes as in some parts it became too fast paced. This was the initial reason for us reconsider the order of our narrative. Additionally, creating our animatic advantaged us as we were able to see the timing of our video and learn how long each scene needed to be when filming. Actually making the animatic helped us become familiar with the editing software, which we would later use for the real product.

However, when we initially planned our idea it was summer and a lot of our video was based on the summer weather, as a few scenes were to be outdoors. As it will nearly be/be winter when we start the production of our video, we decided to change the setting. We're now aiming at a more 'christmas themed/winter wonderland' music video, which will be conveniant because of the time of year. Due to these changes, some of our scenes have had to be altered. We have decided to swap the 'cinema scene' for an 'ice skating scene' and have the placard scene at the end, as the scene when he 'tells/shows her how he feels'. In the third verse of our song, we had too many ideas for the length of time so it appeared crammed and rushed. We've now changed it so that he leaves her at the beginning of the video and goes back to her at the end, then the middle will be a mix of performance and flashbacks to create the narrative.