Character & Narrative: Week Five: 23rd October - 29th October 2017

This week I continued with the animatic. There were some concerns in the group about the length of our animation. This was because when I had only added about half of the panels to the animatic, it was already 36 seconds long. I tried to trim this down as much as possible here and there but we didn't want to spoil the tension and atmosphere in some of the slower downtime parts. I was worried about it feeling too rushed and it ruining the story.

When I put everything together it came to 57 seconds. We have tried to trim as much as possible but not much was able to be removed without compromising the story. We have gone through and worked out how much work each shot will need and we believe we will be able to achieve what we plan. 


Also this week, we recorded all voice effects we would need. This involved me imitating the gnome with panting, grunting and shouting sounds. It took a while to go through all the audio footage and select the best takes. I'm really happy with all the sound work I did on the animatic. I really enjoy doing this and making certain sounds more prominent in left or right sides of speakers depending on where the sounds are coming from.