Film Studies and Cinematography - Project 3

Film Studies and Cinematography

03/03/2022 -  

Jonathan Wiguna Halim 0356790

Film Studies and Cinematography || Project 3

MIB

PROJECT 3: ANIMATIC STORYBOARD PRODUCTION

1. Objective: The objective of this project is to produce a 1 minute animatics storyboard based on your approved short animation. 

2. Requirements: The animatic storyboard production must be based on the proposed story ideas developed for Project 1. 

3. Deliverables:

1. Prepare thumbnail drawing (10%)

1. Sketch your story ideas on A4 paper.

2. You are free to use any kind of format as long as the story can be understood in an orderly manner.

3. Feel free to use text to add description.

4. Present in the class for brainstorming purposes.

5. Output all drawings as one pdf file.
   
   

2. Prepare storyboard (10%)

1. Format: A4 size with landscape orientation

2. Contents: 

1. Panel no

2. Pages no

3. Description
   - action
   - audio (monologue, dialogue, sound effects)
   - effects (fire, explosion etc)

4. Duration

3. You can download from any storyboard template.

4. Use an arrow to guide the action and camera work.

5. Use black and white colour tone to show some depth in the composition

6. You can plan the drawing as a layer such as background, prop, character etc. to make it animatable for animatics. 

7. Output all pages as one pdf file.
   
   

3. Prepare animatic (10%)

1. Using any editing software such as Adobe Premiere, create a new project with 1280 x 720 size and 24fps framerate.

2. Import the image of each panel and arrange them according to the panel sequence.

3. Put the right estimated duration of each panel. Preview and edit back and forth to get the right pacing, continuity and screen direction.

4. Animate the character action and camera works, replacing the arrow direction in the storyboard. You may have different layers of the shot such as background, prop, character etc to make it animatable in the editing software.

5. Animate the transitions (fade in, fade out, dissolve etc.)

6. Put the audio elements such as music background that can enhance the emotion of the shot, voice over (dialogue / monologue) and sound effects.

7. Indicate of each panel number and timecode through text overlays

8. Output the video as mp4 format

Progress

The first time, we got this assignment, we first draw our act 1, the introduction of our character. And I want my first shot to be an establishing shot, to show viewer to know in what area or environemnt is this film will be located at.

After this progress, actually it jump so fast to almost done, because I only done all this in like 2 weeks. So here is the second attempt on drawing the animatic

However all of this is not done yet, because I havent do shading to all my animatics. I do the sketch here with a help from a website call mixamo. Because I already model my character in 3D, so I just need to import my character to mixamo. and from here it can rig my character and I can pose it, so it will make my progress easier.

From there, I take photo from my ipad and the trace it up. And for the combination it into animatics and storyboard template I use StoryboardPro cracked. That software really help me, because I can just focus on the drawing, adjusting the timing is super easy because the timline will adjust by themselves. And also we can type our own details where later on we can export it into pdf. And also can put audio to it.

And here is how my final thumbnails, storyboard, and animatic looks like

Thumbnails

Storyboard

Animatic