Editing/ Animatic storyboard

Fortunately we were given  Mr Oswick's lesson ( due to extenuating circumstances) on Thursday to carry on with our coursework, giving us the opportunity to continue editing as well as attempting to continue the animatic. Firstly we saved our file as an Mpg, which Sir said would render for several minutes, in order to allow us to preview our footage with smooth transitions[ instead of the jolty footage which Adobe acquires]. Whilst this was happening we decided we would try to complete our animatic as we desperately need to get that finished( seeing as we are mostly ahead in other sections of our Media). Our primary thought was that watching the playback showed us that the frame durations were out of sync, due to the excessively long shots, making the ttransitions appear quite erratic- despite us wanting flowing transitions for easy viewing. So we decided that we should cut the shots accordingly prior to the events which are taking place for example: the panning shot around me in the grass was on estimation 16 seconds long(  which if used in the actual piece would bore the audience plus our animatic needs to be a similar reflection to our current footage ). As well as this that shot would need to be shorter to create a snappy approach, quickening the pace of the film.  We also need to add a soundtrack which we feel will convey the theme of our piece the most e.g. it does not have to be an excerpt of our actual film soundtrack but something similar perhaps. Maybe an instrumental solo  which is haunting and melodic or a more sinister, jagged and surreal piece could work just as well. Secondarily we experimented with several factors to see if they would be effective for our piece.This included image control ,where we used rotation transformations to align our frames. However it turned out that it didn't have much of an effect, instead being extremely subtle opposed to our wishes of a dramatic effect - perhaps a sense of irony? Next we tried the opacity fade out alongside the experimentation of the audio mixer balance alignment audio 1-0.0 on Adobe , realising that the mixers were unbalanced thus setting all the audio levels to 0 to maintain equality and to ensure the smoothness of our animatic. Our next job was to look at entertainment edit to start our animatic where we previewed the following: Showtime( use of the primary colour red which would engage the audience), Adventure( a vast green woodland which looked realistic)  and night vision( quite simply a navy blue looking background with enhanced definition). For me i think the latter would suit our film the most as essentially it is about the night, dreams , nightmares, experiencing the unknown. Finally in this lesson we transferred over to YouTube where we looked at old fashioned countdowns to start our movie, making it seem more authentic and old fashioned and discovered an extremely good black and white reel which was actually used in black and white movies, courtesy of WWW. Megaupload.com. We also had a quick look at Working title cooperate and saved it in the process , as its not a famous branded logo, proving quite difficult to find. Next lesson we will continue editing and perhaps start adding non-diegetic sound e.g. the music soundtrack.