Making the Animatic

According to Wikipedia, an animatic is: 'In animation and special effects work, 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.'

Making an animatic helps us make a coherent plan for filming and can inspire further ideas for footage. It also illustrates our ideas to an outsider to our group in a visual way. We drew our storyboard in black marker and scanned the pages onto a computer, saved them as photos and then dropped them into Final Cut to edit them with the song.

We also added transitions such as 'cross dissolve' to imitate effects we plan to use in the video.