Ronnie Leah, BA (Hons) Computer Animation Arts, UCA Rochester.

 Now that I have completed the final storyboard I now want to move on to making the animatic. I started by drawing some additional frames for my storyboard.  I then put all of the frames into premiere pro in order to see if the animatic told the story correctly. Animatic With transitions  I then added transitions in order to tell the story in a way which was easier to follow along with.  Final animatic with audio I then took the video into audition and added the appropriate sounds which depicted what was going on. 

 After completing the storyboard, Marta sent me the files so that I could turn it into an animatic. As I was the editor for the team it was my responsibility to make the animatic.  After looking through each frame, I felt as if the story wasn't presented in a very clear way. This was important as we want the audience to be able to understand what is going on. For this reason I added in some extra frames just so it made a bit more sense. I feel as if the animatic would have benefitted for a few extra frames, just to allow time for Moom's actions to be laid out more clearly. However we no longer had enough time to make this improvement as we needed to present our work to Simon. I then imported the images into Premiere Pro. I adjusted each frames time, making sure there were pauses between the skits to ensure the audience can process what's going on and to help divide them up. Below is the animatic with no audio Animatic With No Audio I tried my best to make the story seem as ...

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