Animatic

The storyboarding stage may be followed by simplified mock-ups called "animatics" to give a better idea of how the scene will look and feel with motion and timing. At its simplest, an animatic is a series of still images edited together and displayed in sequence. More commonly, a rough dialogue and/or rough sound track is added to the sequence of still images (usually taken from a storyboard) to test whether the sound and images are working effectively together.

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We have a created an animatic for the opening of our film. We have used the same images from the storyboard in order to link the two perfectly. This animatic has given us the chance to truly imagine what our final film will look and sound like and how it is going to come together. We have also used, what we believe to be, the correct timings for each shot. The timings are mostly from what we visualised the film to be like in our heads, but by adding rough sound effects and dialogue we have been better able to appreciate the timings how the final piece will come together upon completion. This will also be very helpful during the filming and rough editing stages of production. I feel that it is important to note that some of the timings and shot lengths may change slightly in the final film. This is because we have slightly over estimated the shot lengths in order to ensure we met the two minute film time we are allowed. If anything, the shots would get slightly shorter rather than longer. As well as this, we may add a few more shots or even take some away. This wil not effect the end time of the film, however, since we will split shots that are already in the animatic in half in order to accomodate new ones. This is a just a rough mock-up so things may change a bit upon completion!