Most of the comments were positive, which allowed use to feel as though we had accomplished something. The major weaknesses consisted of the black spaces in the video, the lighting during the strings scene, the alleyway scenes, and the end scene. So we will need to re-film these or edit them.
Name: Harry Painter
Name: Charlie the puppetRole: Puppet must torment main actor and embodies the lack of control he has over his life. The clown must be ominous but also sutble. Something that looks normal to people in a normal state of mind which in taken out of context and made sinister by the exaggeration of the main characters mind
An animatic is described as: a rough animated storyboard used to give some idea about the timing of a sequence. It is a rough animation used to get the feeling of what will take place in the scene. Typically uses a volumetric or wire frame 3D model with little or no texture mapping or lighting.
The purpose of creating an animatic of our music video is a means of planning and it will give a rough idea of what the video will look like. This allows us to see if certain elements of the video do not fit together allowing us to identify and solve the problem before filming it. It also allows us to fit the images in time with the music and to see if the cuts and images fit with the music. We all created the ias a group and carefully listened to the music making sure it was all in time.
Hulya was in charge of actually drawing the images. When our storyboard had been agreed upon within the group, as well as with our teacher, I scanned the images and cropped each one to produce the images for our animatic. This will enable us to have a clear view of how our video will/should look. This will allow us to be organised on set as we will be able to devise a filming schedule and what props we will need etc. There were still a few blanks which we have not quite decided on yet but we are continuing to think of ideas and hope that once we begin filming we will have some inspiration.
We first just started searching for 
puppets on Google shopping, but they all seemed to be very expensive; above £100. So we decided to visit eBay and Amazon scouring the net for a puppet to use in our video. This was very hard as the puppet is central to the plot and it had to look right or the whole video just would not work. We searched for ages searching puppets, ventriloquists, string puppets, scary dolls etc. After days of looking we still could not find a puppet that looked the part.
Eventually we found the puppet which looked appropriate; however it was a 'bid only' sale. During lessons we rung the owner to find out if there was any way he could make it buy only, however this was not an option, because eBay would not physically allow him to. When the day of the bid arrived, we were all at the ready with our credit cards, and in the last two minutes we went bid crazy! Luckily we managed to win the item and received the puppet just a few short days later and we were finally able to film our video.
