Storyboard - Animatic

Here we have created our storyboard animation, which shows what we plan to happen in our film. In order to create this animation we made a story board on a storyboard sheet, which we had to draw each shot of what is going to happen in our film. After drawing out each shot. We then took individual pictures of each shot that we had drawn and and put them into the adobe photo shop to crop out the picture so they look more clean and tidy.

   When we were were using Photoshop we took each photo that we took and used the crop tool, to cut the photos to the size of our choice, taking out any boarders that showed up on the photo. After we cropped all the photos we saved them as a JPEG image in our own area onto the computer. To put together the animatic we used adobe to put it together. We started selecting the quality of our footage, so we chose to put it at 720p, which will give us the standard quality of our animatic. We then saved a new folder for this task, before we started. We then uploaded all the photos from the computer into adobe and on the right hand side was each shot that we took, in total we had taken 40 shots. With these shots we drag them all on to the timeline, putting them in shot order of how our opening should go. Then we started to crop the each shot, which would represent the duration of each shot that we intend to have in our film. Each shot was around between 3-4 seconds long. Afterwards we started to put in transitions which would show the change in scene and shot within our opening scene. We used the black fade into next shot for the first two shots at the beginning of film, which were the titles which compliments the film. We also had some of shot which directly cut from one shot to another, to show the journey of the protagonist during the day. This will allow the audience to follow through each scene and follow the protagonist through her journey to school, and this will make them feel involved.  After adding the transitions to our footage,  we played the footage back and we decide to add the the non diegetic sound over the background of the opening scene that we had story boarded. After adding the non diegetic sound, we played it back and we though we needed to put the volume down in order for the audience to hear the voice over (which we have not included in the animatic). But whilst editing our opening we will include the voice over in. After we started to fade out some of the music at certain points within the shots to represent awkward moment between the male and female protagonist, which is shown when they first see each other on the streets. This will allow the audience to a part of what is going on between the protagonist, leaving an enigma code for them knowing that there will be some sort of connection between them. After the introduction of the tow main protagonist the music is faded back into the shot and continuous through the rest of the opening scene. The non diegetic music stops as the protagonist meets the friend and the dialogue begins, after the music comes back as they travel together to next lesson and the opening scene closes along with the music as well

What went well about our storyboard animatic is that we were able to fade the music to where we wanted the music to stop to show the awkwardness between the two protagonist, and being able to crop the photo successfully through photoshop, giving a cleaner image.

To improve we could make the clearer image of the shot, this could be done by hold the camera still whilst taking the photo. We could also have the voice over included in the storyboard animatic to make that there was an outcome to see how the voice over would fit in.

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