R + P Post 13: Our Animatic

We decided to make an animatic as it allowed us to see, for the first time, how our sequence would flow to make a film opening. It was an opportunity to realise the good points and the flaws of our planned sequence. An animatic is a preliminarly version of a film, produced by shooting successive sections of a storyboard, adding a soundtrack and audio effects. Our animatic can be seen below:

We started by taking still photos that represented all of the shots on out storyboard, we took these shots in our classroom. At first we thought we realised an issue, due to our large cast we didn't have enough people in our group to take the pictures that we needed to. We managed to avoid this by changing our clothes in some shots to easily differentiate who the different characters were.

After taking all of the shots, we had to edit the shots into a basic sequence. We created an Animatic edit schedule to make sure that we were well organised to edit the animatic.

Animatic Editing Schedule

The edit was very smooth, we worked effectively and efficiently to produce the animatic video. Making the animatic was very useful as we were able to see what the narrative flow of our video would be like. There were some limitations of the animatic such as the fact that it does not accurately show how camera movements will work within shots but overall I think the animatic was very useful and helpful.