Story board animatic evaluation

The story board animatic task was set in order to help each group visualise their music videos in a more helpful way before the actual filming takes place. The process of this task was first, for each group to draw out their story boards on paper, containing each shot that they want in their music videos.
However looking at the stages of the music video on paper is harder to visualise as opposed to making a video, composing all the images together in order so that we have some idea of exactly how we want to shoot our music video.
Our group began story boarding with our initial idea. However what happened to us, along with many other groups is that our ideas altered here and there. This made it difficult to story board because some peoples ideas changed altogether. Initially our video concept was based around a typical teenage house party, dealing with the social views on drug consumption, but we progressed with other ideas to end up with a completely different concept which has turned out to be more complex.
After we had drawn out our story boards we stuck all our cut out images on a big piece of paper in order. We then took a camera and filmed each image for ten seconds or so, continuing throughout the entire story board. After collecting the footage we took it to the edit suite where we downloaded the content onto Final Cut Pro where we edited the shots together in time to the music.
The animatic helped our group progress further with our ideas because is allowed us to take a step back and make the decision whether we wanted our music video to be exactly what we were watching now. After the animatics were completed and uploaded onto our blogs we showed them to the class and teachers in order to get feedback. What's happened with our video is that, we have received feedback from our teachers which we have decided to act upon. We were given ideas on how to improve our video further which has now altered the animatic we have produced.
However i do not consider our animatic to be a waste of time just because it isn't going to be exactly what we film. Instead i think that it was a crucial step forward into finalising our music video idea.