Animatic

Once we had made the storyboard we had to put the shots into a sequence with the track in order to see how the track and visuals will fit together. This meant that we had to figure out the exact timing for each shot.
In our animatic we have used the following colour coding to represent each set-up:
Green for forest
Pink for performance
White for white studio
Blue for balloon studio
Black for neon

We have produced a sequence of our main shots as well as smaller ones that we definitely want to include. Due to the nature of our video being incredibly dependent on the footage that we get on the shoot day, we weren't able to include every single specific shot. In addition, we have re-used images various times as our video is highly based around cross-cutting between set-ups. We intend to film the whole song in each set-up and camera positioning so that we can use the best shots from each one.

After having found our storyboard incredibly useful, the animatic was even more crucial to our planning process. It enabled us to be more specific to each part of the song and see how long each shot would last. In addition, we were able to edit the animatic in order to make the video illustrative of the music. Producing the animatic gave us a realistic visualisation of the music video, and meant that we could now move on to the shoot-board and planning for the actual filming.