A really nice way of putting together an animation, a way I would like to always do now is editing as you go. So using the Animartic Premiere file with all the right dialogue in place, we would simply animate a clip, render it as a movie file then place it in the Premiere file replacing the storyboard panel that it once was. This is also a really good way of seeing how the animation is going as it's happening, rather than putting together all the footage at the very end which is risky in terms of time management. Furthermore, doing the process this way means if any of us get ideas we can easily place them in.
For an example, an idea I had was inspired by the movie Cloverfield. Like our animation, Cloverfield is a mock-umentary that is presented in a way that is very realistic. So the movie is represented as secret government film footage which is evident to us when we first see the title cards appear on screen, see below...
I felt it would make our animation a lot more interesting if not only were we making a mock-umentary, but also if we as animators were literally pretending that all the audio in the animation is real and has been used by animators to create an animation. Below are the title cards I created that introduce the animation...
I felt like this would help establish the tone of the animation quicker since we were only given a minute to two minutes to establish this, furthermore I feel it helps the audience to better understand the tone a lot quicker.
To push this idea further I also inserted real audio into the animation as the title cards play on screen. Essentially the audio is just of ambient sounds, dramatically slowed down and with the volume dramatically increased. This turns the mundane into the bizarre. I felt this was successful in putting the audience slightly on edge, going back to that idea that on the surface everything is fine but underneath, all is not as it seems.
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