R&P post 12: Our animatic

We produced our animatic by taking live still photos of the events that would occur in our film opening. We referred to the drawings that we did on post-it notes for our storyboard, bearing in mind shot types and framing. We used Adobe Premiere Pro to add the shots to the timeline, cut them down with the razor tool, add music, voiceover and titles.

Our animatic:

The animatic made it easy to identify continuity errors which we corrected by adding new shots to make the sequence continuous. After viewing the animatic as a group, we made notes on what to change and also got feedback from staff that would improve continuity in our sequence.

Our target audience pointed out that it was very out of the ordinary for teenagers to be walking in the forest when typically, they'd be indoors on their phones. We decided that we would give our characters a sense of purpose when they are walking. For example, Craig has his notebook and wants to be alone and contemplate in solitude, David is just strolling through the park on his phone and the bullies are loitering and being loutish.

Overall, I found the animatic very useful. However, because it is composed of still shots, we could not convey the movement that we had planned for and so some shots linger for a longer time than is necessary.