Week 9 – Animatic / Storyboard Feedback
This week during class we were given feedback some feedback on our storyboards and suggested changes to help make the narrative more understandable or to make the transitions between the animations better. We were also tasked with taking on storyboards and turning them into an animatic.
First Storyboard:
For the first storyboard one of the main changes that I need to make was to make the whole board more cohesive and understandable to someone outside of our group, for example there wasn’t any indication that chip had a gun yet he pulled it out of nowhere to shoot up into the air and then when he went to go punch Joe there was no clear indication that the person he was actually attacking was Joe, there was confusion between whether or not the person being hit was Joe or the viewer. And so with this feedback I got I went ahead and made some changes based on that as well as some other recommendations made by my tutors
Updated Storyboard:
After taking the feedback on my storyboard from the reviews I made some changes to it to help make a more cohesive narrative to help the viewer understand what’s actually happening In addition to taking on the feedback I also referenced different videos online on how to make storyboards and animatics. I swapped out some of the elements from the first storyboard for ones that would aid me in making a more understandable “plot”. For example in my first draft of the storyboard I had chip standing on a table and had him pull out his gun before shooting it into the air to get the attention of Joe, I realised however that it wouldn’t make sense for Chip to not just shoot Joe immediately without having knowledge of the world beforehand. So instead I had Chip kick open a door to get the attention of Joe before zooming into his angered face, this in turn would help convey to the viewer the the character they’re looking at is mad at something or someone, then the camera cuts to Joe having a conversation with two other characters before looking at what the noise was, this would then give the indication that the cup in the beginning may in-fact be mad at this new character who seems to be minding his own business, it also eliminates the possibly of Chip just immediately trying to shoot Joe since there hasn’t been a weapon shown on screen.
Animatic:
After making the changes to my storyboard I went ahead and took a screenshot of each individual board and took them into adobe animate. It was there where I went and figured out the first pass of the timing I wanted, trying to keep the animation around 8 seconds or so.
Animatic reference: