R+P Post 13: Our Animatic

Shown below is our animatic, which was a way to help us visualise how our final opening sequence would look. It contains the exact timings and shots we are planning to use, but uses still photos instead of footage and doesn't use the correct actors, costumes, props or settings.

An animatic is a far better way to visualise the sequence than a storyboard or timeline, as it not only combines these two aspects together but also made us think about the realistic framing choices we have for each shot.

To make the animatic we used our storyboard to create our drawings of shots in real life using ourselves as the actors, taking still photographs rather than film footage. Once we had every shot we had drawn up originally we used the timing written on the timeline to edit together the photos in the correct sequence and for the correct length of time we plan to use in our real sequence.

This benefitted our group, as it made us think about hat we had planned previously was realistic - for example whether the shot of the main character exiting her bedroom was too short. It also helped us decide on what our credits would say, since we had to type them up and add them to the animatic.