Animatic

After finalising our storyboard, we moved on to make the animatic:

The structure of our animatic was inspired mostly by our storyboard,  however the order of events is altered slightly as we had a clearer vision of the order everything would go in once we were putting the pictures to music. The pictures show the studio shots and the black background with text explains the VHS footage. We plan the studio footage to be two artists in NTLS singing the song "Heart Skips A Beat" in a way which abstractly reflects the relationship of the couple in the narrative. The archived footage will quite like a montage the couples relationship and the breakup.

We received feedback from our teacher who really liked it but suggested adding visuals instead of the black screen for the VHS shots and to further consider the order of some shots which could help to improve the narrative flow, we revised the animatic and came up with this:

Our teachers gave us some tips and we expanded them into some ideas which we could transfer into our final video

Rough notes taken whilst watching

Rough notes taken whilst watching

MAKEUP
The makeup put on the actual artists has to be very interesting; since the shots are quite simple, the artists will have to become almost visual art which keeps the audience fascinated

"FKA TWIGS - Through Glass" very simple background but a very enticing look

NARRATIVE SECTION
The relationship needs to follow a more conventional structure so its clearer to the audience Therefore, the couple must be very in love at the beginning (so much grand gestures, proving they love each other) and then in the middle section they should've become more comfortable with each other (so doing more silly things, looks almost like a loving friendship) and then the relationship should break down. We also realised there must be a very reason for the breakup otherwise the audience won't quite understand why things went so wrong - we decided this would be the male character has grown bored and just wants to hang around with his friends again.

STUDIO ACTING/PERFORMING
The atmosphere that the artists create in the studio needs to be very intense. Both artists in NTLS (Josh and I) must be fascinated by each other - aiming to create an illusory relationship which is void of any sexual attraction (perhaps like two pieces of artwork admiring and intrigued by each other). This will keep the audience hooked during the studio sections.

SHOTS/EDITING
- Drawing inspiration from Carol Vanalys, we will challenge the audiences expectations in terms of rhythm and style; using jump cuts and snappy cuts quite unexpectedly in the studio.
- For the narrative montage, we could try out superimposing 2 shots by lowering the opacity to make it look more dreamlike and more like a reflection.
- We could play around with slow mo to make it look like the past, and the narrative montage can dissolve into each other as oppose to cuts.