R+P Post 12: Our Animatic

Following on from our storyboard, we created an animatic, which enabled us to put together the shots on our storyboard in a moving sequence, along with music and any sound effects that we wanted. We used lesson time to find a suitable location in school and actually took pictures based on our storyboard shots, using ourselves as characters, so that they were more accurate than simple stick-man sketches.

It helped refresh our memory on how to use the editing software, and forced us to think about whether the music track we had chosen fitted our sequence. It was at this stage that we realised the original music we were going to use didn't fit very well and so we had to find a new track which was better suited. Also, we didn't intend on using any sound effects but after we experimented a little bit, we soon all came to the same conclusion that a blurred out music and talking sound effect for the end of our sequence fits nicely and is actually quite necessary for our continuity.