Outlining My Animation

The topic for my animation is 'Time keeping is important' I will use Flash to make a short public information film to present the message.

Some ideas I'd like to include

• Multiple clocks of all different sizes and styles entering the screen at different speeds with different transitions, getting faster as the character in the animation starts to speed up and rush around.
• The character pressing the snooze button on their alarm multiple times and each time they press it we will get a closer view of the phone to emphasise their action. 
• Hands on the clock flying round at a fast speed to show time passing at super speed, the clock would then grow wings and fly away- 'time flies'.
• Teacher receiving a message from the student saying 'I'm going to be slightly late, sorry!' the teacher increasingly turns bright red.
• Student arrives late to find everyone just finishing off eating cookies and looking smug.
• Text at the end making it sound like even being just a couple minutes late will make you miss out on something very crucial. 

Storyboarding My Film

To create my storyboards I read through my script and broke it into screens, After I'd broken it into scenes I looked at each line and decided how I wanted each part to look.. After doing this I drew all of the key shots and described them briefly.

These are the storyboard sheets that I created before altering my script. After adjusting my script to include the PI, I chose a different storyboard template and changed my drawing style from stick people to more realistic, scale drawings and I included some extra detail for each shot.

• Shot number
• Duration eg. how long it will last in secs.
• Shot size eg. ECU, CU, MS, LS, OTS.
• Angle eg. high, low, eye view, birds eye view.
• Transition eg. cut, fade.

Using this clear storyboard I will be able to make a detailed shot list from it to add in any extra notes and things that need to be included in the shot, as well as audio.