Animatics part 2:

Work completed individually:

(28/11/11)

As previously said, we started editing the sketches on photoshop, and haven't actually finished. And on wednesday, we actually finished editing the sketches, so we then started using Final Cut.

What application did we use:

• Photoshop
• Final Cut
• Garageband

What we did:

1. Format the sketches into a JPEG file as Final Cut only reads JPEG files
2. Import the files into Final Cut
3. Rearrange the sketches into the order according to our storyboard
4. Play through the "film" to see how it looks like, and see what needs to be altered and not etc.
5. Open up Garageband - scanning through possible music that we can use for the film sequence
6. We decided that we might use music from youtube instead as we thought it would suit the film slightly better, but we still imported the sound tracks from Garageband into Final Cut, just to see how well it goes.
7. Because we have no access to youtube at school, and as a group we have looked at the music that Tayla had looked through previously, we have chosen to use "Dead Silence", but because we don't have access to youtube at school, or a converter site - converting youtube files to MP3 files in order to import into Final Cut - I had to convert the music at home, using the site: www.snipmp3.com
8. I saved a copy onto my memorystick, and brought into school, and imported it into Final Cut.

The Result:

• We tried using music from both Garageband and youtube, and at the end we prefered the youtube version
• The music at the beginning matches well with the scenes, as the music creates a fairytale/fantasy atmosphere, but with a creepy touch to it.
• Some cuts were fades and not jump cuts, which is not what we wanted, but we experimented with it, and surprisinly it did look okay, so we might consider using fades and not jump cuts in our final piece.

Overall thoughts:

• I liked using Final Cut, as it was a really useful application which will help us when we edit once we have finished all editing
• I thought this task was useful as this allowed us to experiment and play around with Final Cut as all of us had no clue on how to use it at all.
• In addition, I thought this was useful because it helped give us a brief look in how our final product will look and be like, so this allowed us to change or alter certain parts, if we did not like how it looked in the animatics.
• In my opinion, the only negative to this is that we needed more storyboard sketches, to make the animatic look more realistic, as I have just briefly drew sketches for each scene. If I had drawn in more detail and depth, and more sketches per scene, I think we would get a better understanding and look in how the final product will look like.

Screenshot of me converting the files on SNIPMP3