R+P Post 13: Our animatic

We made our animatic in order to see if the shots we had planned from our storyboard and shootboard would work together in the narrative we intended to create, as well as making sure they all flowed smoothly together.

First we took photos that represented each of our shots well, and in some cases we took 2 photos in order to accurately portray the movement, as our opening sequence is mostly lingering shots full of camera and character movement. We then edited all the shots together in Adobe Premier Pro and added inter titles to the sequence. We also had to add a wav. file of the dialogue that we recorded during our editing time, which took the majority of our editing time. After this, we finally edited in our sound effects such as the rustling of bed sheets and an alarm clock. Here is the animatic for our film's opening sequence.

Our editing schedule for the animatic consisted mostly of lunchtimes (as well as our timetabled lessons), where we were both editing together. We found that this was the best way of editing the animatic, as both of us working on it at the same time meant that we could both make important decisions, and less time would be wasted in catching up what the other person had done while the other wasn't there.

Animatic editing schedule

Our animatic helped us to see which parts of the storyboard we needed to revise before the test shoot. We only really needed to change one thing, by adding an extra inter title at the beginning in order to explain more to the audience. We also had to change a small part of the dialogue, from "what's it like living with your brother's condition?" to "how do you cope with your brother's condition?". This fit the time better, and it helped the story to flow much more freely. I am pleased with our animatic, and I think it helped us both visualise the opening sequence better.