Story board & Cast

The edits at the beginning before the stop motion will be fast paced like a montage. The shots before the stop motion are to set up the narrative and explain why the stop motion is being made. The edits also need to be fast during the stop motion in order to make it look like the characters are moving fluently. I decided to use a montage edit to set up the video because I think it looks really good and gives the narrative more depth. An example of a music video that has montage editing before the music begins is 'She's Kinda Hot'- 5 Seconds of Summer

Another video by them that uses this technique is 'Hey Everybody'. Like my video, it has a montage before it that sets up the narrative to the video. However, this video has dialogue and a voice over. I have chosen not to do this as I didn't feel like my video needed this in order for it to make sense. I think the montage will make sense without sound. 

The stop frame animation is of a band containing 3 people. It shows them practicing and splitting up. It also shows the main character performing to a crowd. For the stop motion, I need to make sets for the characters to stand in front of because it will look better than them just being stood in front of a wall like they are in my practice shots.

I have chosen to do mine about a boy because there are a lot of videos that have children in them. Even though the videos have children in them, they still appeal to the target audience of 16-25 year olds. This is because it allows the audience to look back to when they were younger, this means that they might be able to relate to it because of similarities between their own childhoods and the ones portrayed in the videos.

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