Story Boarding

Instruction given:

"How do I create an Animatic

• Draw storyboard frames - nice and bold with black pen if necessary
• Take individual photos of each frame
• Upload the photos to the computer
• Import the photos into the edit programme
• Drop each image onto the time line and cut to required length
• Put music or other sound on the audio time line
• Add titles or ef
  fects / transitions as required
• Export to Quicktime and upload to Youtube or Vimeo
• Embed the video onto the blog or save it to a CD"
  
  We began by thinking of inspired shots, angles, costume and mise en scene we had gathered from our research. Then listening to our track we wrote down in order our narrative, then we could draw shots around this. Drawing the shots together I then scanned them into the computer so they could be seen clearer, it was also faster. Some of the images are shown above.
  
  Importing the images into final cut was simple, we then imported our music track.
  Following the listed sequence of narrative we dragged the images to the time line and listened for change of beat eg the introduction was changed in beats of 8. We repeated the images numerous times as obviously change of angle, distance, framing and action would fill the shot yet the main premise of the shot is captured in the drawing. Obviously this would then allow us to edit to the pace of the music. The animatic will be extremely useful for filming schedule as we are aware roughly of the shots we need to capture, and can direct specifically rather than being clueless. Final cut also allowed us to add effects to the images, we used dissolves during the introduction to move between shots and slow down the pace, this was useful as we could test out which transitions worked best with the music.
  
  Below is the final animatic exported to Quicktime movie. Hopefully after watching it you can being to understand the essence of the tone of our predicted video.