Creating the Animation

Appropriate footage can then be selected form the log sheet for the animation.

Visual and Audio Effects - offline edit for your animation apply variety of visual ad audio effects to create meaning in final edit

Offline vs Online Editing

Offline editing - In short, it’s the stage where your raw footage is run through a program that transcodes it to have a lower resolution. You can then use that lower resolution footage to edit your film. Think of this as the storytelling stage. The editor focuses on the timing of the cuts, the pacing of story, and communicating emotions.

Online editing - better thought of as the finishing stage, is where you’ll reconnect those low-resolution files to the original, full quality footage. This is also when color correction, effects work, final titles, and audio are brought into the film. It’s at the end of the online stage that you export your completed film.


Offline Edit

So, as part of the animation process, you will need to create an offline edit – think of it as a rough draft in which you sequence your footage on a timeline. 

You should use this to make notes in line with the storyboard and determine changes needed.


Log Sheets

Before creating your animation, you should create a log sheet. 

The log sheet is used to identify time codes with descriptions of all shots.




 


















 Transitions

Once the offline edit is complete, and you’ve made notes for corrections, you’ll need to produce the final edit.

One of the first considerations is cuts (and length thereof) and transitions. You should avoid using transitions just for the sake of it. Think about what those transitions mean. What kind of effect are you trying to convey?


Straight Cut -the most common transition of them all; one clip ends and the next begins with no overlap and no gap between them. While most of the time straight cuts go unnoticed, you can make hard cuts between scenes for a jarring, dramatic effect, or use them for comedic timing.

JUMP cut - shows passing of time 
J cut - leading sound from one cut to another drag sounds from next scene 
L CUT -  Current audio brought into new scene 
Cut on Action - audience eyes stays on action 
Cross cutting - two narratives play same time split scene two stories laying at once
Cut away - informs viewer of scene b roll of where the people are better understanding of what's going on in scene 
Montage - getting ready demonstrates change in characters 

Fades/dissolves - often used to open or close out a scene, fading out of one scene to black (or sometimes white) and then fading back up into the next gives a sense of closure for the first scene and moving on to something new gracefully.

Cross-fades/Cross-dissolves - Fading one shot out while simultaneously fading the next shot in, instead of to white or black before fading into the next shot. With this type of transition, you'll see both clips on screen at the same time during the transition period.

Colour Control - What kind of colour palette, or colour scheme, will you use in you animation? You can apply filters in post-production to generate meaning.

Titles and Graphics

Graphics and title cards can help you to generate the appropriate mode of address for your audience. 

Look at the title cards on the following slides. What kinds of connotations and effects do they produce? Why is this?

For example, AKIRA(sans font, blocky, violent gory links to colour palette), TOY STORY (primary colours, plus font for target audience) and SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DRAWFS (traditional and fantasy)


Audio Effects

You will also have to think carefully about recording and mixing sound in your animations Dubbing ( audio effects and production, 

dubbing (often called re-recording or mixing) is the post-production process of replacing, adding, or mixing audio tracks to create the final, polished sound for a film, video, or animation), Incidental music (incidental music refers to music specifically composed or selected to accompany a dramatic performance—such as in a play, television program, video game, radio drama, or film—that is not the primary focus of the medium), Noise print (a recorded snippet of pure, isolated background noise—such as room tone, tape hiss, or fan hum—used to teach noise reduction software what to remove from an audio recording) and

Wild tracks (audio recordings made on set or location without the camera running, intended for use in post-production to fill, enhance, or replace production audio) USE ROYALTY FREE MUSIC

Lego

Use Lego to build up characters/settings. This could tie in nicely with stop motion. Some of you might have Lego at home.

You will however need backgrounds! These can be printed or you could take photos of some locations


Clay

IF you are someone who is arty, by all means buy some clay tools/moulds . This will be time consuming!


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