Animatic

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Creating an animatic is a very useful piece of pre-production work as it gives us an insight into what our final film opening will look like when all our chosen shots are put together. Intitially I was responsible for creating the animatic, since I'm the editor, but because I was away for the crucial animatic lesson and Chris had already made a start on it at home, we decided that he should continue it and I would do a different piece of pre-production work instead. From the animatic I've learnt what our film will look like alongside sound, and as editor can begin to consider what order and length each shot appear on screen for.

After Chris completed the storyboards, he cut each frame apart and arranged it together to form a look-a-like of our final film, but in storyboard drawings. He then applied 2 of our music choices to add extra atmosphere and make the animatic seem more realistic and like the final piece. The music choices were from our final list of 4, but because we haven't made a final decision yet he decided to incorporate 2 of our choices here to see which one is best suited. The first piece by Jan Hammer ('Clues') is slow but spooky and more noir style, whereas the second piece by A R Rahman ('Mausam and Escape') is more for a running pace but sounds very Indian style. As you can see our animatic runs over 3 minutes, but in the real film the shots will be shorter and the action in each scene will be quicker than it's shown here. Also we decided after viewing the animatic that the name titles could appear at the beginning of the film and we would have no music, or very quiet background music on the final scene where the 2 people exchange their dialogue and get into a fight. This is because we want the dialogue to be heard clearly and the gunshot to shock the audience with a loud effect. At the end of our animatic Chris also added the gunshot sounds we wish to use. We found the gunshots on a sound-effects disc from the college library, and they have proved very useful as we wouldn't be able to create a gunshot sound ourselves.

You can also watch our animatic on YouTube...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9k4abKaKFDc