Producing A Storyboard For Your Opening

To visualise what our shots would look like and help us know what camera angles/movements/shots we would need, we have created a storyboard (with pictures taken from shots in the animatic I produced). Of course, the final product won't look exactly like the storyboards planned (as we might make last minute decisions to change a camera angle, for example), but working from the storyboards will give us a fairly solid idea. 

Along our storyboards, I also created an animatic - with very simple drawings using FireAlpaca (even though emailing the storyboards to myself lessened to quality) - which would help us visualise the shots in time to the music, most of the time having the scene change with every bar. Obviously the animatic will not be an exact parallel to the finished product, but gives us an idea for how much content we need to film to try and fit the shots into bars as best as we can (though the time may go over the bars at some points).

Markers put onto Danse Macabre to fit with the music.