Planning

When first planning our projects we started by researching different videos within the same genre to get a feel for what was expected**. After this we used storyboards both drawn and photo to just get an idea of what we wanted to do and how it would look. The drawn storyboards just helped us get an idea of what we wanted to do, however the photo storyboard gave us more of a picture of what our ideas would look like and if we felt it would look like what we wanted. These storyboards did exactly what they say on the tin, for example they gave us a chance to play around with some different shot ideas, close - up, extreme close - up etc. And what ideas seemed to benefit our project, as these ideas were only quick drawings or photos this meant we could take down as many ideas as we wanted. Also, these storyboards acted like a script for the entire project, meaning that we knew exactly what shots we needed and when so if we missed one out or felt it didn't look right we could see exactly which one it was and what could in its place.
After we did these storyboards we took photos of drawn storyboards and uploaded them on to the Apple Macs and made a short video with the photos to see a very rough idea of what our video would consist of and if it made sense to us and other members of the group.

As regards to the photo storyboards we also uploaded these to the Apple Macs and again created what's called an animatic, a moving animation, to see in a bit more detail what we saw in the drawings which we uploaded. After seeing these we knew what we wanted to do and how we go about it. As part of the video making we also had to create a CD cover and a webpage, as regards to planning these we just researched and studied already published webpages and already selling CD covers, especially the CD cover produced by Athlete.

**I did try to embed 3 different videos from youtube to show what and where we used videos to help us plan our video, However when I tried to embed these it would not let me as it came up with 'embedding disabled by request', Athlete - Superhuman Touch, The Killers - Smile like you mean it and Snow Patrol - Chasing Cars.