Editing Process of Animatic Timeline

We start to edit our Anamatic Timeline using the Storyboard we have filmed, each slide for about 10 seconds, by taking these, putting them onto the timeline and putting them in order with the right amount of time. As we haven't downloaded the song for the first lesson as it is very hard to get because it isn't that famous, we relied on the time that we wrote on the timeline in the process of storyboarding because we already listened to the music while doing it to make out storyboards as precise as possible. This helped us while producing the Animatic Timeline.
In this lesson, we finally got the song and stuck it onto the timeline. Then we had to adjusts the shots, because we had to make sure that editing cuts etc come and beats in the music. To make this easier we put a mark everytime there was a specific lyrics rythm or music rytyhm. This helped us starting the process of polishing our Animatic Timeline.

To finally get the music has helped us to look at our idea and storyboards again and we actually moduled them aroung quite a bit because you get a different view on the whole things once you see the storyboards moving together with the music etc. The idea in general stayed the same, however we simply switched storyboards back and forward to create a better version of what we want to produce. An example of this would be the shots of the girl getting ready. In the original storyboards, we had cut-aways to the girl getting ready for a long time while the singer is singing but now we actually figured, that we have to have the shot on the lead singer while he is singing the lines and therefore the cut-aways need to be shorter and quicker so that the break can actually come in the change of sound.

So far the first steps have been very easy but now that we have the music it is getting harder, because everything has to be extremely precise and perfect for the music as well.

In the last lesson we finished editing our storyboards and putting them onto the timeline. We perfectioned the bits that weren't good and played it over and over searching for possible mistakes. Then we proposed the idea and showed it to our teachers to figure out whether they were happy with the end result as well, as we changed the whole thing around quite a bit and also left some shots out. Luke said that there were some things he still didn't like, as for example the shots of her putting on make-up, the fact that we cut out the bit where she enters the club and there are two bodyguards in front of the door, the fact that the changing around of the band takes too long and the audience becoming modern because they felt it was too boring.

Basically they wanted us to have shots of Paula getting ready in colour, probably in over-the-shoulder shots, and more about in her bedroom than actually in her mirror. Furthermore we should think of a way how to change the audience more interesting than just touching them. An idea that had been proposed was that Paula could rip of the audiences clothes and underneath there would be colorful stuff and then suddenly, as we do not have enough time, the audience would start changing themselves and figuring out that they have colorful clothes underneath as well. Also, as the song is about 3 minutes they said that we should put in a break at 2:30 and then the first minute (up to the change of sound) would be in the 60's style with colour cut-aways - then 23 seconds in the break of changing the band around, however also the audience members would come on stage as well and help, as we don't have enough time and the instruments and everything else needs to be changed around as well as the styling make-over.
Then the last minute of the song would be completely modern.

Furthermore we thought of some more interesting shots, for example when she is walking through the black and white postered corridor, the door to the studio would open and we would have an over-the shoulder shot of the audience (black and white) looking at her when she is in colour and the corridor behind her as well. As well as this we changed the ending, because instead of her walking out, being happy with what she did, we will end with the modern band as a last image.

So basically the next lesson we will spend with doing these changes to the editing process of the storyboards to complete it.