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.