What is an animatic?

1. What is an animatic? And how can I make one? Part 3

2. We are back to iMovie again today. • Just like yesterday, we will need to click Later on this dialogue box.

3. Chances are that another student has also been using this laptop to work on his or her animatic. • Go into the Project Library and select YOUR PROJECT.

4. You can see that I retimed all my pictures. My film, so far, is a whopping 39 seconds! • I have also turned off the Ken Burns Effect, and put one of the film effects (negative) on the close-up in the fifth slide.

5. There are some features in iMovie about which you should know. • The first is the Microphone Icon. By clicking it, I can use either the laptop’s microphone or an external microphone to insert dialogue.

6. I want my news reporter to report the news. I click the mircrophone and I get the message: “To record, click a clip where you want the voiceover to begin.” • So I clicked the last clip.

7. I selected where I wanted the spoken text to go. • It gave me a 3 second warning, and I was expected to speak! • It is helpful if you have a script in front of you. • You will probably do this step many times, since the dialogue may be longer or shorter than the time you have allotted for the clip.

8. The dialogue is shown by small purple tabs underneath of the visual clip. • If you have headphones, you will want to plug them into the laptop. • You will want to select the clip, move the playhead to its beginning and press the space bar (play).

9. So, to review, there’s a lot to be done before moving on: • Your dialogue has to be scripted. • It has to be recorded. • The run time of the clip has to coincide with the time it takes to speak the dialogue.

10. Film making is painstaking and sometimes tedious. Take your time with this process and get it right. • There are at least two other types of sound you need to consider: • Sound effects. • Music.

11. iMovie comes with a Sound Effects Library preloaded. • Mr. Klein also put a sound effects library up on ProfessorKlein.com

12. You have already created a folder for your pictures. • Within that folder, create another one, entitled Sound Effects.

13. When you click on the sounds, they will play. • They will also tell you how much time they play for! • Make sure you take good notes. • Each of these titles is a folder. There are several sounds within each folder.

14. My movie is about a woman going through some stress in the middle of an alien invasion. • I am checking out the Sci Fi sounds.

15. My space gun sound didn’t take but a second.

16. I am going to need that sound, so I right click on the blue bar. • I select Save As.

17. I save the sound into the folder I created within MYANIMATIC folder for the .wav files (sound effects).

18. I want to show that there are aliens shooting it out as she runs for cover in the building. I drag and drop the alien gun sound right onto the clip.

19. You can see the three Ray Gun Shots as indicated by the green tabs.

20. There are also plenty of sounds in the iMovie Sound Effects Library. • You can access it by clicking the musical note and selecting iLife Sound Effects.

21. All you have to do is drag and drop the sounds from the iLife Library you want.

22. You can adjust its position by grabbing the green bar and moving it to the desired location.

23. Tomorrow we will talk about Garage Band and iTunes. • You should begin to think about where you want this project to go. • Is this something that you’re only going to show Aunt Bess, mom, dad, and Spock-the-Laborador Retriever? • Or are you going to use this in your college admission portfolio, on YouTube, and as a pitch for a pilot? • How you answer influences the type of music you choose for this project….