Evaluating My Storyboard by annabelhales

Letter to record company asking for permission

To Domino record company,

We are a group of A Level students working on an A Level project for a qualification in Media Studies. We are writing to request permission to use the following track ‘Mardy Bum’ by the Artic Monkeys.

With your permission the track ‘Mardy Bum’ would be used as the accompaniment to a short form video that is made purely for assessment purposes and will have no commercial usage. The video will be viewed only by members of the school community and the assessor of the examination board.

The artist and the copyright holder will of course be fully recognised in the pre-production and evaluation material that accompanies the project. We can also include a full copyright notice if required both in the planning material and on the video itself.

Yours sincerely

Annabel Hales
Hurtwood House School

Our Band Name

We have decided to call our band name "wonderland" as we think that it fits in with the theme of an ideal perfect world which corrosponds to the message that we are trying to portray in our music video, that everyone ants to be in their ideal "wonderland" but in reality this doesn't exist. 

STORYBOARD

Editing our storyboard

We used the footage that we took of the storyboards in the previous lesson to create a sequence, which we will put to the music to show what our music video will look like. We used the program "final cut pro" on the mac computers to edit the sequence. Firstly we uploaded the shots that we took the previous day and copied them into final cut pro. Then we organised out sequences into different categories by putting them into different log bins, for example we put the bands in one bin. This enable us to find the sequences that we wanted more easily. Then we inserted the track onto Final cut pro and listened to the track. Then we went through the track for a second time and found the areas which stood out to us from the beat and highlighted them with a red marker.  Then we cut the sequences according to the beat of the music. Our plan was to Place the shots in order onto the cutting area however as we began to do this we decided that we didn't have enouf footage of the band playing (as they are the star image that will sell their track)  so we changed the sequences around and found areas where it would be appropriate to put the band in instead of narrative.

Filming the storyboard

During a lesson, Francesca and I filmed the Animatic for our storyboard. We went into the studio and set up a tripod and set the camera up. We then white balanced the camera, focussed it and zoomed in on each individual drawn picture. We filmed each picture for 5seconds each so that we can cut the shots together in the editing suite. We have 89 shots in total which we plan to cut together as we will for the real thing.

Examples of props we will use when the furniture turns to cardboard