Storyboard Overview And Storyboard Animatic

These pictures above are the storyboards for our title sequence that i have scanned in on to a computer and then put on my blog. I have done this so that everyone is able to see our full storyboard idea, such as the sound/dialogue we may be including or the shots we are planning to use. I drew most of the storyboards in our group however Mike and Dom did contribute to the work that i have done above so i cannot say that it was just me who done this by myself.  

The video above is the anamatic the me and Mike created on IMovie. An animatic is a series of photos that you have taken all placed together in a timeline which play consecutively one after another. When deciding on how long one pictures takes before it changes, you get to decide but editing the time limit on that specific image within he timeline. The reason we have created an animatic is to show an image version of our title sequence with the music that we are going to use in the background. We have done this to see if our idea for a title sequence works and whether it looks good or not. Mike took all the pictures of the storyboard's shots and then we both sat on IMovie and placed them together in order and changed the times to match the times on IMovie. We then added the music to the video and had to cut and edit the music in order for it to fit the title sequence and then we had to place the music specifically on the time lime so that it plays halfway through the first shot and also so that when the drumming and electric guitars really kicks in, it would be just moving on to the first shot. We found that moving the music to the specific points the hardest part of this as we had to make it inch perfect.

Sound/Music Final Decision And Locations We Could Possibly Use

We encountered a few problems when it came to our sound/music final decision as we had originally agreed to make our own music in garage band. Mike is currently studying the subject and has training in the software. However Mike had coursework due in for music that same week that we was due to make the soundtrack and so we was unable to make the track that would play in the background of our title sequence. As we couldn't do what we had originally planned, instead we had to use our back up plan which was to get our sound track from the copyright free music website. At the time of writing what we could do as a back up plan seemed pointless to me as we were certain that we wanted to do our own music from scratch and thought that we wouldn't need a back up plan, but now when we found out we couldn't make our own music, i was relieved that in fact we did make a back up plan.

The sound/music final decision wasn't a very hard to decision as we only had to search through a few tacks and we found the perfect piece to suit our title sequence. The music is from the american rock genre of music that uses electric guitars and drums to good use. When me and Mike started to look on the website we didn't expect to find the piece of music so soon and so was very happy when we found the track that we did. When we started looking for music we were going to use an instrumental soundtrack but we couldn't find any from the sort of genre music that we were looking for and so instead settled with a piece of music that uses minimal lyrics but still suits our title sequence that we are trying to create.

For the locations that we could possibly use i decided to not make it difficult in our group in finding the setting that we need for our title sequence and so instead of going out to find the perfect setting for our title sequence, i told Mike and Dom to take pictures of their living room and to then post them on their blog so that we could look at all of the rooms and look at which location would be best for our filming. In the group we will have a vote on the settings as to which one we think we should use and in each of our heads we will be voting for the one that is best for our title sequence, is in good distance for us traveling and if there is anything that could prevent us from filming our title sequences in the setting.

Locations We Could Possibly Use

These are some of the possible locations that we may want to use to film our title sequence in;

This is Dom's living room.



This is Dom's living room from a different angle.

 

This is my living room.

This is my living room from a different angle.

This is once again my living room from another different angle.

These are some of our possible locations that we would use because they fit the setting that we are trying to create in order to film my pre title sequence. We are only using one setting to film all f the title sequence in and one of these settings above is going to be the one that we will use. The setting that we are mostly likely to use would be the first setting show at the very top, this would be the best setting to use as it is at a good distance for Mike and Dom to get there and the room is exactly what we are looking for to use, however there maybe a change in opinion of the group and we may opt to go for a different location, so we haven't made a final decision just yet on which of the above locations to use.

Sound/Music Final Track Decision

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This is our final track that we are going to use in our title sequence as the background music. Recently there has been some controversy over what piece of music to use as Mike was going to create a piece of music for us in the programme garage band for our title sequence. Mike was unable to do this as he has had coursework deadline dates set for his music that are due soon and so he couldn't make this piece of music for us and so our group had to look for different ways in order to gain copy right free music. 

After searching for a long while me and Mike found a copy right free website that provides music from many different genres and it is on this website where we found our piece of music that we are going to use for our title sequence video as background music. Although we did want a soundtrack that was instrumental but we have had to settle for a piece of music that has lyrics in. The link to the music is at the top of the page and this piece of music is copy right free with no strings attached so we are able to use this soundtrack without having to ask for permission.

The music we have found is just like how we wanted it to sound, in fact i think finding this piece of music is better than making our own piece of music and i think the end piece that we now have would have been much better than if we had made it ourselves as this soundtrack that we have sounds professional and will mix in well with our title sequence vibe that we are going to create.

Lesson 15 And 16

Lesson 15 mostly helped our group with its storyboard as we was given feedback regarding what we had drawn so far. The criticisms about our storyboard were that there weren't many shots and that there had to be more title communicated through the storyboard as we had only 7 when we drew it for the first time. This lesson helped us a lot as it gave us a chance to make those necessary changes to the storyboard in order to correct that feedback we was given in order to make it the best and most detailed storyboard possible. We as a group thought that doing a photo animatic of our title sequence would be the best idea for us but as we couldn't get to our setting at that point, we had to do the photos in a different setting with different props and costumes . The animatic did not go well and so we decided to get rid of the idea of doing an animatic as it wouldn't work unless we had all the props and the setting and costume that is required for our storyboard. Instead i think we shall just photocopy the whole storyboard and transfer it to our blogs so that we have a version of it on here and i also think we should attempt to perhaps do an animatic but instead of taking pictures of our real life character, i think we should go back to the original idea of photographing the storyboard and adding the soundtrack that we are going to make in behind it to get an idea of what our title sequence will look like. The reason we didn't do this type of animatic before is because our storyboard didn't have enough detail and shots in it before but now we have drawn the more detailed one we can photograph this and possible make the animatic.

In lesson 16 i re-drew the storyboard for our group with more shots and more detail, including 4 extra titles on top of the titles that we had already made. I used the comments that we got back on our storyboard as positives as i thought that not many comments were given about the storyboard lack of quality or the idea in fact and so i used that as a good point and made the needed corrections to the title sequence storyboard. This lesson helped me very much as it gave me a chance to make those vital corrections to the storyboard and finish the storyboard in that lesson so that we are ready to film our title sequence. We then made a Gmail calendar which helped out a lot with organising our work and making sure that we all know the deadline dates for specific pieces of work so that we never get behind. The calendar helped out with many different aspects for example, it helps by get the group organsied and having a deadline date for pieces of work, makes the work get completed that all more bit faster. Also have deadline dates set shows me if the group is doing the work and if they are concentrating on the tasks that are due in. Finally with this calendar it shows you who is making creating the events and deadlines on it so we can see who is contributing to the work and who is not.

Re-Drawing Storyboard And Making A Gmail Calendar For Deadlines And Other Important Dates

In this lesson we re-drew the storyboard that had corrections to make it look more neater and professional. Re-drawing the storyboard didn't take long as we already had a version of it with corrections on it, so when i was drawing it this time all i had to do was include the corrections that needed to be made and then that would be our final storyboard ready so that when we had dealt with all the other aspects of a title sequence we could then go out and start filming our title sequence wherever it needed to be filmed.

In this lesson we also looked at how to make a Gmail calendar for our title sequence group. A Gmail calendar is an online calendar that each member of the group have access too and are able to change any dates as they please. The reason why we are going to use the Gmail calendar is so we can record our deadline dates in the calendar if ever we get some and then we can use this to stick by so that we do not get behind with the work and so that we meet the deadline date that is set for this title sequence.

The idea that we had for our Gmail calendar was to call it JaMiDo Productions after the company and logo that we created. I then thought in order to tell apart which deadlines we had each added to the calendar i thought we should colour code it and so each deadline that person had added it to the calendar, they would change the colour so that the group could see who added what and then we can see that everyone is participating in the groups work and taking this title sequence coursework seriously. Mike is the colour red, Dom is the colour Grey/Blue and i am the colour green on our Gmail calendar (JaMiDo Productions).

Editing And Making Corrections To Storyboard And Possibly Doing A Photo Animatic

In this lesson our group was given feedback on the storyboard that we had drawn for our pre title sequence. The feedback that we was given was that there had to be more shots included in the storyboard and that there had to be more titles communicated in the storyboard to the audience. So as a group, in this lesson, we went back to the drawing board and made the neccessary corrections to our storyboard so that the feedback that we was given had been altered in order to make it better.

In this lesson we was also given the task of possibly preparing an animatic version of our title sequence idea in order to show it to the class to see what they thought of our title sequence idea and to see if it fit in with our film. An animatic is a photogrpahed version of your storyboard that runs from on frame (shot) to another and the time that you have at the bottom of that shot determines how long that shot is on the screen and then you add any dialogue or music that you plan to have in your title sequence to the animatic so it is like a drawn version of your title sequence. You would usually do an animatic to see if your storyboard idea works and it also gives others a chance to review your idea and give you any feedback on how to improve it.

When it came to preparing to do an animatic for our title sequence idea, there was a problem as our title sequence was just one shot which was a 360 degree angle of the main character sitting on a couch with his feet up, this was a probelm for us as the storyboard that we had drawn up didn't have the qualities that would be need for an animatic so we resolved this problem by deciding to do a photo version of this animatic. So instead of taking pictures of our storyboard we would take pictures of the actual scene with a person acting like our storyboard states. Once again we encountered another problem as at first we thought of having the titles appear on actual paper in the scene, meaning that the titles were propps in our title sequence but after doing a mock up of these titles it turned out that doing them on paper looked very cheap and you couldnt quite see what they said. Also as our title sequence would be shot in a living room of a home, it didnt quite look right being shot in a school without the propps that we needed and so the animatic didnt quite look right and when this happened we decided not to do the animatic any more as it was hard for us to accomplish this.