Storyboard and Animatic

This is my first storyboard for my music video. As it was drawn by hand, it cannot be considered accurate to my final product or any forthcoming videos. This has given me some ignition to what I would like to create as my final product and has given me an idea for my first draft. I have included a lot of elemental features such as water and earth to give the music video a natural, raw texture. Therefore, this makes it more original and also slightly different to mainstream videos that tend to have lots of props and scenes. I have budgeted my music video to cater for my own financial tendencies. Therefore, making this video on a low budget means that the conventions of it being an alternative genre is upheld.

                              

The video below is my first animatic. This is taken from my storyboard to show me how I would construct my video and maybe what it would look like as a first draft. It has also shown me that some of my timings are not on queue with the music. Therefore, when creating my first draft, I can now take into account different timings and beat rhythms such as the chorus when there is distinct snare drums that have now been made evident when looking at my animatic.

As you can see from this animatic, there are two subject characters. This was a rash, last minute decision in which now, looking back, I don't think works. When creating this idea, I had not thought out properly who my subject two would be, therefore, there is no character profile in my work for this. However, I can still use this animatic to determine shot distance and shot types when creating my first music video draft. My aim was to contrast two different perspectives, confident subject two being an alter-ego to a subdued, conserved subject one. As you can see in shot number 33 onwards, subject two uses holi powder smoke in the air (taken from my research) contrasting with different elements such as the removal of clothes, the connection with the woods and earth. However, subject one is fully dressed, walking through a marina, like a normal day, however, the constant graphic and video matching between each scene, shown with subject two in shot 30 spinning with the smoke and subject one spinning in shot 31 next to the marina keeps continuity for over 10 seconds to really establish both scenes and the contrast between both characters personalities. It is aimed to depict the song's message of drowning within life and situations. Therefore, in subject one's mind, there is a trapped subject two wanting to express themselves but feeling trapped and confined. 

This animatic and storyboard has shown me that at the moment, my ideas are too complicated. There is too much going on within the mise-en-scene and even though i believe the cinematography is OK, it is much too complex for a low-budget production. Therefore, I have created a short animatic that I think would suite my ideas a lot more and help me achieve my first draft a lot easier. This consists of just one subject character, my original candidate 'Erin Miller'. It plays on a more literal definition of my chosen song 'Drown' as I think if I do this, I will be able to incorporate a more in-depth and detailed concepts later. But for now, it will be solely abstract.

As you can see this animatic only contains about 6/7 slides. This was taken out of my original animatic as I didn't believe it fit in very well. it has also given me more of an idea for my first draft music video. As you can see, the location would be in a bath, but I was to create a distorted view, almost as if it was not taken from a bathroom scene. I want to make my music video as less cliche as possible as I believe this will benefit my alternative indie genre.