Animatic

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Chris-

Creating an animatic is a very useful piece of pre-production work as it gives us an insight into what our final film opening will look like when all our chosen shots are put together. From creating an animatic we have learnt what our film will look like alongside sound, and with the help from Chloe (our editor), we have had the chance to consider the length of each shot and the order in which they appear.
After I had completed the storyboards, we cut each frame apart and arranged it together to form a look-a-like of our final piece, but in storyboard drawings. We then applied 2 of our music choices to add extra atmosphere and make the animatic seem more realistic and like the final piece.
The music choices were from our final list of 4, but because we haven't made a final decision yet we decided to incorporate 2 of our choices here to see which one is best suited. The first piece is by Jan Hammer ("Clues") and is slow and more noir style, whereas the second piece by A R Rahman ("Mausam and Escape") is more for a running pace but has an Indian style.
As you can see our animatic runs over 3 minutes, but in the real film the shots will be shorter and the action in each scene will be quicker than it's shown here. Also we decided after creating the animatic that the personnel titles will appear at the beginning of the film and we would have no music, or very quiet background music on the final scene where the 2 people exchange their dialogue and get into a fight. This is because we want the dialogue to be heard clearly and the gunshot to shock the audience with a loud effect.
At the end of our animatic we have also added the 2 gunshot sounds we wish to use. We found the gunshots on a sound-effects CD in the Suffolk College library, and they have proved very useful as we wouldn't be able to create a gunshot sound ourselves (for obvious reasons!).