Animatic Video

This is the final animatic that we created on Final Cut. It is only a very rough cut as it is simply a guide of what we are going to follow for when we actually do some shooting. I have tried to add in some different fades at the beginnng and end of the aimatic as this is an idea we wish to use in our actual video.

Animatic

Before we start filimng the video we had to plan our ideas so as when we go up to London we are not standing around deciding what to do and also so we do not mess our model around and waste his time!
In order to plan the filming, we had to storyboard our ideas. We had to delegate roles within the group to make this happen. Jay and Adam offered to do the drawing of the story board as I am not artistic at all. Because they were doing the drawings, it was my job to edit them all into the right places using Final Cut, a programme that I have used once or twice before.

After Adam and Jay had finished drawing a particular scene, we took a picture of the frame, uploaded it to the computer and I tried to fit it in to the right place within the song.

The picture on the left, shows me using the Final Cut programme and composing the animatic, and the picture on the right shows Jay and Adam creating the story boards.

Below is a picture of all of the storyboards that we created. As you can see, there are a lot of different shots that we have decided on!

The London Eye

The other idea that we had was to do with the London Eye. These are the two shots we got of the wheel. The shot from the front of the wheel was taken because we had the idea of filming the wheel front on and then speeding the footage up. Also known as over cranking we felt that showing footage of the wheel in a sped up motion would look effective to use at some point within the video. The picture below is another of the London Eye from a different angel. We were walking along a bridge and saw the view between some buildings and thought it was a very picturesque shot. We also noticed how the sun was positioned and thought we could take advantage of the different angels of the sun on different landmarks within London.

Leake Street

On Wednesday 30th November me and my group went to London to seek out a few locations that we could use in our shoot. We went to a few of the obvious places being all along Southbank and The London Eye and had a few ideas with these locations, explained in the next post. This post however is about a street that runs underneath the tracks and platform of Waterloo Station. The street is called Leake Street. Many people may know this as the 'Banksy Tunnel'. The walls are decorated with graffiti initially created during the 'Cans Festival' organised by Banksy himself. The graffiti along Leake Street is tolerated by the authorities especially as there is a claim that it is a legal wall. Below is a board of pictures that we took when we went to Leake Street to show the types of art that can be found there as well as what the tunnel actually looks like.


As you can see, the tunnel is literally covered in graffiti. There is literally not one brick below head height that can be seen. As I have said above, the picture above shows what type of art can be found. This is because the street was originally for artists to leave their work for others to see, but as you can see from the picture, this concept has been abused, probably by youths that just want to go out spraying walls because they think it is legal. A lot of the original art has been destroyed by peoples 'tags' and other art, such as the smiley face and the grey face that you can see in the mood board. When we were walking around the street, we noticed how one of the bits of graffiti said 'Life'. This gave us the idea to possibly spray our own line on the wall and film it to use in our video. we would like to have the line 'what a life' on the wall.

As well as the covered walls, the street itself was fairly busy and this is what we wanted for some shots of the video. We did not want our performer to perform somewhere with no people around at all.