My First Year Animatic, "Mr. Beaver"

To begin with I had to cut out a lot of the original content, there was meant to be a whole long segment of comical rhyming deaths but it proved to be too long and had to be cut. I was able to take apart and stick the audio back together to create a cohesive story though and I was able to still include some of the death scenes in a quick montage.

As for the effects, I made use of movement (Mr. Beaver in the kitchen) and zooms (Mr. Beaver losing his mind) as well as a small tracking shot (Mr. Beaver walking off a pier). In addition I made changes to the lighting such as in the scene with the dragon; I decreased the light in the cave and increased it when the dragon breathed fire.

With the audio I did very little, I cut it up to remove the unnecessary content and I also cut out any long pauses to help the narration flow better. As for how I got the narration, I rented a mic and created a make shift recording room out of pillows, a duvet and my clothes drying rack in my bathroom to eliminate the echos. I was rather proud of it.

If I had to do it again I would definitely plan better so I didn't have to gut the finale project of two minutes of content and I would instead focus on better conveying the story through images alone, making more liberal and creative use of the effects to do so.

<------ My makeshift recording studio.