Creating the Storyboard & Animatic

Over a series of lessons, with the use of a shot list and story board, I could create a powerful and effective animatic which could inform and describe what the main plot of our final thriller film will be about, along with how camera shots, angles and title credits would be presented. My first step of the process was to create the storyboard. By using the shot list, initial ideas of the storyline and imagination I began drawing out each different shot which would be used - from the use of the shot list I could portray the feelings and atmosphere through the angles and shot types, within my drawings. Once this was finished, a clear and chronological projection of the film could be seen, while a more visual representation of the film strongly reinforced our views of how to make our final film have good quality in portraying the conventions of a thriller. I could now take pictures of each specific shot and upload it onto iMovie to be edited along with the voiceover to create the animatic.
     Now that the storyboard was finished I could go on to developing the animatic. Doing this was very straight forward, however, took a considerable amount of time in order to get a good quality finished video. My first step was to write out what I would be saying in the voiceover. Here I tried to keep my sentences short and to the point - this would allow me to say all the information about the shots I would need while keeping the duration short in order to give the person watching a feel of how long each shot in the real film would be. Once this was done, it was time to create the voiceover. It took many attempts to achieve a quick and precise voiceover for each of the shots, however, in the end I found it to be very smooth and clear for the person watching. Finally, the last step was to edit the voiceover and storyboard shots together to get a simultaneous and continuous flow of the animatic. I cut down the sections of each voiceover that were not needed, and placed them alongside the specific storyboard shot. From here I could increase the duration of viewing each of the storyboard shots to match with voiceover and also the duration of the shot in the real film. The animatic was now finished and uploaded onto the group blog.