Storyboard Comparison

Storyboard Comparison

Now that we have finished making our music video, I thought it would be interesting to look back at our storyboards to see how they compare.

Generally, we have stuck quite closely with our original storyboard - this can especially be seen in the first few seconds, where our video almost exactly replicates the storyboard.

As the video continues we do mostly stick to the shots - however, our timing changes throughout and some shots get moved to perfect the timing. By the time we get to the letter, we are still mostly following the storyboard, although we are about 20 seconds ahead of time.

However, the end of our music video is completely different. Initially, we planned to have Crystal manipulating the footage and disrupting the relationship before closing her eyes in the projector room to wake up in real life. We liked this idea at first because we wanted her 'projector room' character to be mysterious, only revealing herself to be Crystal at the end, but we felt this might be too confusing so we replaced it with Crystal clicking her fingers and beginning a reverse sequence, where key points of the video are seen in reverse. We felt that this had the mysterious ambiguity of the first idea but was easier to organise and understand. Therefore, we completely changed this part of the storyboard.

The Music Video

The Music Video

Here is our finalised music video for 'Rearrange' by Biffy Clyro.

Editing

Editing

The editing process was finally completed on 16th March 2017, over 3 months after the start of filming. The editing was a long, occasionally frustrating, but ultimately rewarding experience. The timeline below looks relatively simple and light, which reflects the simplicity of the video: unlike a short film, there was no audio to worry about, besides the music, which made editing much easier. Also, the narrative is straight forward, and there are no complex scenes which required easy access to a lot of footage during the edit - that would have made the timeline look busier with a lot more layers. Because all the scenes are really brief, the video has a very quick pace. This also made the video easier to edit.

Sam took the most control during the editing because he is the most confident with the software and has had the most editing experience. However, it was still a very collaborative experience because every week we would watch the whole video through as a group and make comments about things we wanted to change. These changes were generally minor, such as reordering some of the shots earlier in the film to clarify the narrative. Another change we made was speeding up the footage of the silhouetted hand turning the pocket watch. We did this because the pacing was too slow, and it detracted from the flow of the video. Thankfully, it is not very noticeable.

When the editing was finished and we had checked through to make sure we were happy with the video, Sam converted it into a high quality video format before uploading it onto YouTube. We decided to make it public so that others could see and comment on our video.