Animatic: Creating

We have been using Final Cut Pro to produce our animatic. It has been extremely useful to refresh our knowledge of how the program works, as the last time we used it was last year for the AS task. By putting the animatic in to Final Cut we have been able to get a good grasp on how our overall trailer will turn out.

As you can see in the picture below we imported the still photos from our storyboards and then edited the length to fit our shot list. We then decided to add in the transitions that we had previously decided on.

We have been playing around with different features such as the Ken-Burns crop effect in order to give our animatic some motion and hopeful improve the overall quality of the animatic.

Sound was by far the most challenging aspect of this animatic, which is important to note for our actual trailer. We found it very difficult to find a soundtrack that fitted our exact needs. We wanted our animatic and trailer to contain similar music to The Disappearance of Alice Creed trailer however we couldn't find any similar music on youtube or soundcloud. This meant that we had to resort to using the music from the trailer, this isn't ideal as throughout there is dialogue from that trailer which we ideally wouldn't have. However if you simply ignore and tune out the dialogue, the soundtrack is very similar to our ideal sound.

We also plan to have several foley sounds throughout our trailer. I found a website where you can download these sounds for free, here I found many of the ones we wanted. Some however I couldn't find such as panting or an impact sound and therefore we just had to leave these off our animatic.

We found the water dripping sound on Final Cut and extended it over the start of our trailer, this hopeful gives a good introduction to our trailer before the music starts.

The zipper worked great however the heavy door slam isn't quite as effective as we would have hoped, this is due to the sound effect we found to being sharp enough as it is more of a heavy door closing rather than slamming

The shovel going in to the ground works very well, especially when combined with the picture. This is because the picture isn't very clear however once you also hear the sound effect of the shovel going in to dirt it is far clearer.

The gun shot sound was very easy to find, it sounded great however didn't quite line up perfectly with the music, which may be something we will have to address when we edit the actual trailer.

AF