Animatic

Once we finished our storyboard, we could move on to make our animatic:

The orange post-it notes are the shots of the band performing the song. Originally these were scattered more randomly throughout the video but we realised in order to give it a better structure we needed to cut more regularly between the band shots and the era shots. 

0:00-0:18: The band are performing.

0:18: We cut to the 50s scene. Juliette is playing the male lead and Chrystal is the girl. The couple meets and he flirts with her. They start off standing on either side of a jukebox, to make the 50s setting obvious.

0:37: The footage cuts to the 70s, a disco setting.

0:45-1:00: Band shots again.

1:00: 80s. He dances (referencing The Breakfast Club), and tries to get her attention. In the video, we will have a bench instead of chairs lined up. He dances across them and throws the book out of her hand, before they both do the Breakfast Club shuffle.

1:18: 90s, coffee shop setting. Juliette is now acting as the girl here. They sit on the sofa, and she flirts with him, putting his coffee cup down so she can kiss his cheek.

1:44: This part is a dance sequence that cuts randomly between all the eras, including the modern era, which the audience haven't been introduced to yet. This brings all the different parts of the video together. We will film the couple doing the same choreography in all the eras and then cut between them, so it will still flow together continuously. We plan for the band to be in the same frame, in the background, while the couple are the focus. 

2:00: It starts to cut between the couple and the band. Cutting between them ensures that both the band and the era are consistently shown and brings the two parts of the video together.

2:15: It cuts to the modern era. We re-choreographed this scene after making the animatic because we weren't clear of exactly what happens. Here was what we choreographed:

The girl walks to the lead singer. Both are on their phones. We chose to use phones to represent the modern era because technology is a hugely significant aspect of our current culture and a stereotype of what life is like now, so it will be easily recognisable to the audience. She bumps into him, and then they look at each other before tossing their phones over their shoulders - an action that will create the sense of their love being strong enough to stop them being on their phones all the time. 

At 2:32 she then pulls him closer by his shirt and then pushes him back. Then they break out into another dance sequence, which goes on until 2:55. Again, this cuts between all the eras.

The video ends with three more band shots - the guitarist, drummer and bassist, to keep the band as a whole prominent in the audience's mind so they remember them as well as the lead and the girl - and then the couple walking into the distance.