Storyboard animatic

Software used - Windows Movie Maker

Whilst other students used Adobe Premiere Pro, I decided instead to go with Windows Movie Maker, seeing as I didn't have Adobe at home and would be able to work on it outside of college, and in the comforts of my home.

The benefits to using Windows Movie Maker are that it only took me an hour to import the frames, piece them together, alter the timings to fit, and export it. And if I ever needed to take a break. I could go back to it whenever I wanted, whereas people using Adobe would need to wait until they next had a study period in college, therefore it will take them longer overall to prepare the animatic.

The drawbacks to using Movie Maker is that the program crashed on me a number of times. However, I was aware of the risk of it crashing and losing all my work before I started creating my animatic, so in the settings I proceeded to change AutoSave so that it would save my work every minute so if the program was to crash after a long time of hard work, I would have all or most of the work intact when re-opening.

Before I scanned in my storyboard, I made sure to draw over my pictures to maintain their visibility after it scanned in. I used EPSON Scan to scan everything in. I used the snipping tool on Windows to crop the computer screen so that each would show only the drawings. I did begin using Adobe Photoshop CS5 to do this, using cropping tools within the software, but I found this to be a long, tiring process, and only managed to take 10-15 frames before a fellow Media student suggested that I use the snipping tool instead, which turned out to be much quicker.

Since my drawings are of a poor standard, I added in arrows and captions to make it easier to understand my drawings and what I intend to do with my video for my viewer.