Evaluation of the Usefulness of the Animatic Storyboard

Creating an animatic storyboard was both useful anhd helpful, before our idea kept changing. The aim of the animatic storyboard was to give us a rough outline of how long our opening would last. In this sense, it made it very helpful. However, there were disadvantages to our storyboard as we underestimated the duration of each of our shots, therefore, the usefulness of the animatic changed in my opinion. In addition to the effectiveness, we created the animatic at the beginning of the project , this meant, we had not yet practiced with Final Cut Express and could not include transitions, aswell as visual and aural filters so, our animatic was very basic. If the transitions had been included, I feel that we would have benefited me and it would have made the storyboard more effective as me and my group would have been more prepared with Overall, I think if my group had followed through with our original idea, then our storyboard would have been very useful. If I were to do this whole process again, then I would have produced an animatic storyboard and either stuck with the original idea or if I changed something in the whole idea then I would either add or edit the animatic storyboard.