Animatic

An animatic is a simplified mock-up of what we plan for the video to look like, made out of still images taken from our storyboard. We created the animatic to see what our storyboard would look like with the music, and to see what we may need to change. Also it showed us what was good with our initial ideas.

Planning 04/12/09 - Storyboard/Animatic

Since the last post on planning we have thought of many different ideas to what we are going to have in our video. We have scrapped some of the initial ideas, as the further we understood our song, the more we feel what is right and what is wrong to include in out video. For example, I wrote about having an animated section of the video for the chorus, we have since decided that that is not the correct thing to do as it clashes with the feeling that we are trying to create for out production.
We are keeping the idea of a woman playing a piano, but the style and setting of her playing it has yet again changed. We are going to create a stage for this woman to stand and sing on, after the initial shots of her on the piano. This will change the type of video that we are shooting to make it mainly performance based. We have also changed the idea of keeping the setting the same throughout the video, and as in the Black Eyed Peas video we are planning to make a trail to where the 'rave' will be held, and capturing on film people making there way to the event. We are hoping to have Glow Paint on the trees while the people are walking through the woods, to show them directions to the party. We have created storyboards for what we expect and hope our video to turn out like by taking several shots and drawing out what we think they will look like. We have imported these seperate shots into Final Cut Pro and have made an Animatic, which is our storyboard shots, in order, with effects added to them to look like an actual video. This is to give us an idea of what the video will end up like when it's completed.

Below are pictures of our storyboard:

This is the first three shots we thought of for the beggining of our video. Here we have an establishing shot of the barn, people being directed there, and a high angle wide shot of people entering it.

Digipak

Digipak is a patented style of compact disc or DVD packaging. Digipaks typically consist of a gatefold paperboard or card stock outer binding, with one or more plastic trays capable of holding a CD or DVD attached to the inside.
We had to analyse three artists from the same genre as our chosen artist and then compare our Promo Pack with theirs.

The first artist that sprung to mind when talking about Drum and Bass was the widely renouned Pendulum. Pendulum have been running the D&B scene for the best part of 10 years and are still going strong. This makes me think that they may be the biggest Drum and Bass band in history, so therefore the perfect people to compare my own artist to.

This is pendulums front cover of their album 'Hold your colour' which reached number 29 in the UK charts. It is a very artistic cover with a strong pattern including green and yellow colours. This is also seen in their music video where the same coulour scheme follows on. They also use the same colours in their live performances, as seen below.