My music promo animatric video

This is my completed animatric of my music promo video. The animatric is a rough design of how my video will hopefully look once filmed. This has been such a strong learning curve for me basically because of the idea of continuity not making any sense, it's taught me what i need to be aware of when I'm putting my clips together on the editing suite and also how i want my character to act. It's taught me how difficult editing can actually be, and giving me a rough idea of how sharp and precise i would like my editing to be. I didn't use colour within my animatric unfortunately however, i certainly do know where i want to leave the clips in colour and edit other clips into Black and White tone.

Creating a story board allowed me to create a shooting schedule, prop and cast list as it made me realise what i need to create my promo music video a success. It also made me think what shots will suggest emotions and feelings to the audience, such as planning where to use High Angle shots and long shots, and also the mise-en-scene such as the surroundings and the costume. It allowed me to think about the cuts, dissolves and fades from shots to shots. It was a very good idea in terms of planning as well as developing the story and the character further, I then remembered the entire concept of a music promo video was to advertise the track and promote the singer, therefore i feel i need some advertisement for Damien Rice as an artist, as in my video the main character is female therefore it's not as if the audience can suggest that Damien Rice is playing that part. Also, i don't have much mickey miming from characters within my music promo video therefore it's not as if i could place 'Damien Rice' in the scene, mickey miming and performing his song with an instrument therefore the idea of him being Damien Rice is suggested to the audience: therefore failing to promote the artist is breaking the basic concept for creating a music promo artist. However, artists such as David Gray has been able to do this, by using a well known artist to mickey mime and act in his music promo video as his iconic voice creates the audience to identify the artist who's the song is.