R+P Post 12: Our Animatic

We intend to create an animatic on Adobe Premiere Pro to help us to understand how our opening sequence will flow; the transition of each shot. It is crucial that the shots are timed correctly and fit in with each other. Getting a sense of time visually will help us with our test edit and main edit. In the film industry, animatics are used to bring the storyboard to life essentially, and this is what we wanted to do as well.

We will make the animatic by taking individual pictures of each post it note on the storyboard, before importing them onto Adobe Premiere Pro. We know we will be able to adjust the time of each shot, according to what we have previously planned. Furthermore, by doing the animatic on this program, we will be able to put titles over the shots, as we would in our footage edits.

Overall, the animatic (above) was beneficial to our opening sequence development in the sense that we had a clearer idea of what to expect for our upcoming edits and we were also able to make changes to anything that did not work so well.  For instance, originally we had put credits over face parts but we realised this did not look right and so we were able to change this. We also added the backing track to the animatic to see if it went with the shots and it did.There was an opportunity to seek out potential continuity errors and avoid this in preparation for our shoot. We had a basic idea of how all fundamental components (shots, titles, music) would integrate.