STORYBOARDING

Today, we began the process of getting our ideas down onto paper to help us with our shoot day as it will give us more of an idea on the day as to exactly what we wish to shoot. Since this is our first lesson, we each sat down alone and just started drawing out the different shots we felt we wanted, this was just to help get us into the right frame of mind and put us onto the right track. This way by doing this individually we could do whatever we wanted, as this was just our initial ideas. We each set ourselves the target to complete between ten and fifteen shots each so that next lesson we could begin with coming back and discussing our own ideas, and that way it will trigger and generate more innovative ideas and be more progressive next lesson.


We set off straight away today with a discussion of all our own ideas, as this helped with letting the whole group have a general direction as to where we all wanted to go. As one of our members of our group was away we split up again – each choosing one of the three different sections to our pop promo. I concentrated on the middle section, which was ‘the bikes’. In this, I just drew out a number of different shot types, ranging from mid to close ups of both the male and female singer. Also I drew close up shots, of different things to make the shots varied, e.g. a close up of the handle of the bicycle. Again, we set ourselves a goal of completing a certain amount of different shots; we each did between fifteen and twenty so we then had a good amount of shots to work with for our shoot day.


In the lesson today, we just began to make the finishing touches to our storyboards, going very them with a fine-liner and adding some colour to help give more of an idea as to what we want the shots to actually look like. Then we began to organise them into an order, the order in which at the moment we want our pop promo to look like. As this way we can immediately begin filming our storyboard in the correct order in tomorrow’s lesson.


Today, we filmed our storyboard to turn it into an animatic to transfer it onto a timeline in Final cut pro–this will show us a rough cut of. This will then be really useful when it comes to editing our final piece as it will help with getting the right shots in the right place as well as for the right amount of time. Although, it is likely many of the shots will change on the shoot day. Jay and I set up the camera JVC 1500E, we pinned each shot up and filmed each one for approximately 20 seconds.

Now we had our storyboards filmed, we began editing it. We have spent about two lessons on it, today and yesterday and we made a rough cut of the order and the shot lengths. As this, we felt would give us a clear vision to work with when it came to filming our finalised video. We used Final Cut Pro to edit our storyboard – we put all the clips down onto the timeline and then broke it up and made sure we put the right clip to the right piece of music. We used our timeline, which we had previously made to help us with this as we were then aware of when the three different sections were. As this was only a rough cut we did not do this too accurately as we were aware that after our filming day our shots were going to be very different so it was just an initial outline as to what we wanted our pop promo to look like.