Feedback from our animatic

After completing our animatic, we displayed this to Mrs Allison. We received both positive and negative feedback which was extremely helpful as we were able to adapt and improve our current ideas for our music video. Although our animatic did not give a clear example of what shots we intended to film and how we wanted to develop them, we spoke throughout the animatic to Mrs Allison to allow her to understand the full concept of our ideas.

• Mrs Allison suggested that we did not use silence throughout the opening of our music video. Instead of introducing the music straight away we decided to take on her advice and use strong effective sounds such as the suitcase rolling along the floor and car slams. These noises we will film separately.
• As in our animatic we showed both Emily and Joe in one shot, we decided that it would be better if we filmed shot reverse shot to allow us to experiment when editing.
• Mrs Allison thought our idea to include action shots was very good, she suggested we used more, especially at the beginning of the music video these would create a dramatic effect. These action shots will include facial reactions, the movement of the suitcase wheels and Emily’s lower body.
• It was also suggested that we use a point of view shot such as a hand opening the door, this would create a dramatic and unusual shot to the opening to our music video.
• Originally we were going to include only natural sounds at the beginning of the music video, after speaking to Mrs Allison we discussed that it would be a better idea if we purposely included these sounds to create affect, we would include these separately.
• We also thought it would be a good idea if we thought about shots including Emily and Joe which would reflect on how they are both feeling. One of the shots we discussed was to have one of the actors in the back and one in front. We could then use the effects on the camera to focus on one why the other is blurred, this would make the actor blurred seem insignificant. We decided we will film this both ways so we could decide witch looked better.
• Another effective shot we as a group could include would be to have Emily and Joe back to back or even better create a split screen effect. These shots could include the actors back to back or at either end of a setting such as the dining table.
• As we did not show clearly in our animatic the effects we are planning to use, Mrs Allison suggested we think about all effects possible include overlaying and blurring shots to create the look of movement.
• As we plan to film flashbacks of Emily and Joe in black and white, we suggested it would be more efficient if we filmed in colour, this way the effects can be changed around when editing but we would have a basic shot to work with.
• Another fantastic idea we all came up with was reverse play. We have now decided that we will use this effect near the end of the video when displaying shots of Emily and Joe. A great example would be reversing a hug, this would also give the audience a clear point of view that the relationship is coming apart as well as relating the actions to our lyrics.