Animatic Storyboard

Fortunately we were given  Mr Oswick's lesson on Thursday to carry on with our coursework, giving us the opportunity to continue editing as well as attempting to continue the animatic. Firstly we saved our file as an Mpg, which Sir said would render for several minutes, in order to allow us to preview our footage with smooth transitions [instead of the jolty footage which Adobe usually has]. Whilst this was happening we decided we would try to complete our animatic which we needed to get that finished. Our primary thought was that watching the playback showed us that the frame durations were out of sync, due to the long shots, making the transitions appear quite jolty - despite us wanting flowing transitions for easy viewing. So we decided that we should cut the shots accordingly prior to the events which are taking place for example: the panning shot around Ana in the grass was an estimation 16 seconds long. As well as this that shot would need to be shorter to create a snappy approach, quickening the pace of the film.  We also need to add a soundtrack which we feel will convey the theme of our piece. Maybe an instrumental solo which is haunting and melodic or a more sinister, jagged and surreal piece could work just as well. Secondly we experimented with several factors to see if they would be effective for our piece.This included image control ,where we used rotation transformations to align our frames. However it turned out that it didn't have much of an effect, instead being extremely subtle opposed to our wishes of a dramatic effect - perhaps a sense of irony? Next we tried the opacity fade out alongside the experimentation of the audio mixer balance alignment audio 1-0.0 on Adobe, realising that the mixers were unbalanced thus setting all the audio levels to 0 to maintain equality and to ensure the smoothness of our animatic. Our next job was to look at entertainment edit to start our animatic where we previewed the following: Showtime (use of the primary colour red which would engage the audience), Adventure (a vast green woodland which looked realistic) and night vision (quite simply a navy blue looking background with enhanced definition). Finally in this lesson we transferred over to YouTube where we looked at old fashioned countdowns to start our movie, making it seem more authentic and old fashioned and discovered an extremely good black and white reel which was actually used in black and white movies.