Planning meeting #6

Today we started to plan out the content for our animatic storyboarded sequence. We wanted to make a succession of brief notes first, before creating the artwork, in order to have a clear structure and basis for the visual elements. We began by discussing  possibilities for our opening sequence (intro) set in the modern day; timing the pre-lyrical instrumental piece at the beginning of 'If Ya Wanna', we found that we had 19 seconds to play with & decided that in this short gap of time a compressed montage of snap shots / small snippets of film would create a better overall view for the audience of our protagonist & the artist's (lead male in the video) relationship. We felt that if we started the piece on an extremely sour note breaking of their connection straight away that the passion and emotion of the relationship would be entirely lost & that some brief hint at their history would create a much more rounded video. Additionally though our lead singer takes A-level drama & music (something which will benefit us greatly in relation to their over-all performance and believability) we knew that stilted romance acting may lack authenticity and take away from the enjoyment of the rest of the video. We went on to list the serious of shot lengths, angles etc & discuss props / locations designed for each specific shot. We then worked through the rest of the era's finalising the location & casting for each & deciding on which shots to include in bullet form to then later bring to life on our storyboard. Finally we finalised email agreements with possible venues & rang up 'Frank B's Diner' in Kingston to speak to their manager about hiring out the restaurant. We managed to secure Tuesday the 27th of November to use the diner privately after hours to create our 1960's scene. We knew it was so vital to secure this placement as the location is perfect & authentically decorated and we we aware that needed as many high quality filming spaces as possible to have an overall watchable piece that didn't look sub-standard and completely amateur. 

 

     

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