Animatic

For the animatic I basically put the storyboard image into a timeline on photoshop and twiddled with the timings of the panels to to get a coherent story. I also added some basic sample sounds to add to the flow of it. The animatic had to be done in a really short space of time and I've seen animatics before where there's quite a lot of movement. If I had more time I would of added more detail and description into what movement is happening because to an outsider who isn't viewing it with me I can't explain what's going on. But I think that for this project the purpose of the animatic was to show as part of a presentation where I was able to explain what's happening. But I know now in future that I need to leave more time to add this detail. Examples of what I'd go back and add in, is where the bird flies in, the pendulum swinging, her sitting up. 

Below is the image of where about the sounds are placed in the animatic, which where inputted through adobe premier. I really wanted to add a sound that clearly emphasised this dream state she's entered, and I came across the sitar and with it being quite foreign I think it might be too much, it depends how it works with the dialogue. I think I'll try it with the final thing before looking for other options because I do think that it precisely right amount of time long.

During the presentation one issue that was raised that I need to look into further is the fact that there are a lot of panels and the coherence of the story may be compromised by the intense pace of the animation. It is a lot of story to get into a short time. This may mean it's more complicated but one of the reasons I've chosen to do this is because I know it's going to be a challenge but I want to show off as many different principles as I can, obviously I've got the pendulum, the squash and stretch of the bird jumping, anticipation in her waking up and taking her time to get up on a rock in the sea before revealing she's mermaid, exaggeration in the facial features. The main reason for me taking this approach is because in the last brief I think I let myself down in not applying enough of these principles.