Creating Animatic

• In order to create our storyboard animatic, we had to film every shot that we had drawn for our storyboard for several seconds.
• Once every shot had been filmed, we captured the footage onto the editing software.
• We then put the whole uncut version of our storyboard onto the timeline.
• We went through the whole piece and had to split the footage so that every different storyboard picture was seperate, allowing us to edit them individually more easily.
• We had to change the length of each shot to correspond with the music track and the time that we wanted a certain frame to appear on screen.
• Once every shot was at the correct length, we had to do some post-production work to certain shots. This included using the horizontal and vertical pan presets as well as the zoom presets. This gave us a better visual idea about how the final video would look as it created movement within the shots.
• We feel that we have planned enough for the video, with our only concern being the mid-8 of the song, but the tempo change allows the cuts to be longer providing we use movement within the shots.
• However, we will still film some 'filler' shots when on location just in case when we come to edit the final piece some shots do not work in the way we intended, meaning we have to delete them and fill the space with something else. For example, in the mid-8 we will film Hannah (the love interest) walking down the street at various angles to vary the shot (it seems a bit too long on the anamatic) but also it will mean that if one angle doesn't work (ie. too dark) we can just use another angle.
• The thing that we learnt most from our anamatic was the fact that we have to put a lot more movement into our shots than we originally planned, so that the video looks varied rather that purely static shots which last around 2-3 seconds.