R+P Post 12: Our Animatic

As part of our pre-production preparations we created an animatic. An animatic is essentially a storyboard in video form. We believed that the animatic offered us many advantages over the storyboard as it makes it alot easier to visualise what our final product will look like. This is because when producing a storyboard it is difficult to tell how the timings between the shots, music and voice over will work. A good example of this, is that when making our storyboard we allocated far too much time to our voice over, however when we were able to review our animatic, we realised this was the case and thus shortened our voice over. Below I have included our animatic.

In retrospective, I think our animatic was a really good way to help us plan our opening sequence as it was our first time producing any video content for the project. However, I think that if we were to do it again we would have used our actual voice over actor in the animatic as well as in the rough cut and final edit, because it would have allowed us to iron out any issues we had in recording the voice over for the first time, in the rough cut. We had a problem with our voice actor sounding very depressed when he recorded the voice over for the first time, meaning we had to rerecord it last minute. This would have been easily circumvented had we recorded the voice over in the animatic with the actual actor.