The Long Way Down - Animatic

As well producing in my third year, I've also been taking on roles within the projects as well as others.

Carl - the director of The Long Way Down - created the first draft of the animatic & asked me if I would add some sounds effects...  I'd found many a sound clip previously to use for the animatic & now it was time to put them to use! Which would also help when pitching for sound designers! (Something we require & are rather interested in for all you sound designers who may be reading this!)

So my first attempt at sound on the Long Way Down animatic - one thing I definitely need to do is think out of the box when trying to find the sound effects! Things that create the sounds required may not initially be the things you'd think!

Knight Rider Animatic

As part of the storyboard project I was required to create an animatic in order to time how long each frame would take within the scene and therefore how long the scene would take. The main part of creating the animatic is adding the voices to the frames, as the timing is more accurate due to knowing the length of recordings. The rest of the frames are estimated by me imagining the scenes and in other cases attempting to recreate them with toy cars to get more accurate timings whilst making car like noises. Due to the car chase and the nature of the racing scene, some of the frames are relatively quick being a second in length to imply speed. The voice recordings were adding in Adobe Premiere Pro to the timed frames, in addition to the sound effects adding a sense of atmosphere to the animatic.