When I joined the Library Project, Pete showed me the project's animatic to get the timing a scenes. My first job was to cut together the background shots and line them up with the animatic.
For some scenes this was very straight forward, for example scene one. Cherie had exported the 3d backgrounds to be the right length and I just had to position them and bring in the still images for the right length.
Other scenes were more complicated. Scene 4, which I have mentioned previously, was entirely animated in Flash. Unfortunately, Justin did not have the timing when he animated the shots. This meant they needed a lot of editing to get the scene to work. Today I had to ask Justin to re-animate a few of the shots as the scene was not working. There were definate continuity problems and however I cut together the scene it looked wrong.
I spoke with Andy about the scene both today and yesterday. He pointed out that the principals we started to learn in storyboarding are also relevant in editing. This is quite interesting to me; as can be detected from previous posts, I didn't really enjoy storyboarding (or pre-porduction in general). But I am interested in shots, angles and setting up shots. I have now found my viewing of The Simpsons slightly spoilt by my automatic tendency to analyse the shots they use.
I am aware that what I am doing at the moment is not really editing, due to time contraints and the "tightness" of the animatic, but it has given me an idea of editing and it's definately something I would like to look at again. I am torn by my dislike of storyboarding, because I would now like to look at the shots Justin animated for Scene 4 and discussed how the whole sequence could be planned to flow better. At the moment it is better than it was, but it still jumps around much more than I would like and there are definately still continuity problems. But, time being what it is, the scene must be locked and we must move on!
I wish I had kept the previous version so I could demonstrate how improved it is! But I cannot find it :(
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Just got your text and read your blog both of which have made me feel very sorry for you, at least it will all be over by friday and we can go get drunk.
I'm glad you like the beetle; it has been a bit of a nightmare to do and no i would not like to do any comping but that probably wont make any differance.
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