Animatics Exercise

Fundamental to the pre-production process of filmmaking is the creative process of storyboarding. I have personally found storyboarding to be an exciting and beneficial process that helps us visualise the film before hand and ensure the flow of action is aesthetically coherent. With this, the animatic exercise was a very insightful and engaging way to look at storyboarding and visual planning in an entire new way. Combining the individual stills with the music and dialogue, was almost like creating a blueprint or roadmap into what the potential sequence can look and feel like.

For the first animatic, I focused on utilising mostly wide and medium sized shots, and chose to incorporate a happy soundtrack to induce a comedic feeling to the narrative as the key difference. The second animatic was personally my favourite of the three. I intentionally combined both close-up shots with a mellow and romantic soundtrack to evoke feelings that are related to a romantic story. Although the script does not convey a romantic narrative, it was interesting to see if combining this choice of music along with the close-up shots, could achieve that key difference. The final animatic I feel worked best for reimagining the scripts overall story and narrative. The POV shots of Bryan looking down at the book and Leanne glancing down at the empty table, really drew attention to key shots within the script that I believe were important to highlight. More so, adding in these shots that were not included in the script had also altered the rhythm and timing of the sequence.

Furthermore, the animatic storyboard process is something that I will definitely continue to use again for future projects. I found that this process allowed me to have more control and direction by planning ahead and thinking about key elements such as shot sizes, camera angles, screen direction and also production design.

http://drive.google.com/file/d/1CVflLz-zQL5jW21SuvQb_nX7mrpM6-Kl/view