LAUAN601-Storyboards and Editing

Editing the Storyboards 

Original storyboard designed by Gabbi Slater:

 Originally, I wanted my short film to be 1 minute and 30 seconds long. When Gabbi put the storyboard together it was 2 minutes and 27 seconds long. She put it together in After Effects. After discussing it with peers in my class and my teachers, I came to the realisation that this was not possible to complete in the time I have for my project. However, I love Gabbi's storyboarding skills and the quality this animatic was done to was defiantly up to my exceptions and more!

This is the first draft of the animatic put together by Gabbi Slater:

Although I was happy with the standard of the animatic that was handed to me; the animatic was completed two weeks after my original deadline, this was disappointing to me as this was not the final product as I had changes I wanted to make. As well as this, I feel as though I did not communicate with Gabbi effectively before starting the storyboard to make it more clear that I wanted the short film to be as long as: 1 minute 30 seconds.  As this would set me back waiting for Gabbi to change the animatic based on my notes, I made the decision, as the director, to make these changes myself to the animatic by to editing the video in Premiere Pro.

The changes I decided to make were:

• I started by cutting out all the unnecessary scenes.
• These unnecessary scenes involved all the running scenes that would take up too much and did not need to be in the storyline for it to make sense to the audience. 
• I also sped up certain scenes that were too slow as this would benefit the mood of the scene and make the action more eye-catching and dramatic.
• After receiving some feedback, I was told the flashback from the mystical world to the realistic world was not clear enough. To make it more clear I placed a video effect on top of the scenes to create a flash. Instead of the scene flashing from the monster chasing the boy into the boy travelling to his Grandma’s, it flashes into an establishing shot of the realistic world. As the story begins with the establishing shot of the mystical world, this demonstrates to the audience the visual difference between both settings allowing them to understand what world they are in by setting the scene.
• The original animatic timing was at 2 minutes and 27 seconds long.
• By making all the these changes I was able to drop the timing down to my original plan which is now at 1 minute and 27 seconds.
• This is beneficial to me as now I will be able to make up for lost time after waiting for the animatic. I was aware of what I could do as a director in the amount of time I had to complete this project.  

This is the final animatic: