Here is an animatic of the storyboards for my Hidden Stories animation, made using Adobe Premier. I loved using the post-it-notes for the storyboards, as I could stick them on the wall and look back at them all, get others to look at them, swap scenes around - which was all really helpful. It is maybe not the neatest of animatics (the large border around the storyboard post-it-note bothered me slightly!) but I feel I have got the timing somewhat how I want it to be in the final film. Looking back however, I may make the start scene slightly slower just to ease people into the film so it's obvious where we are and what is going on. The film should be between 2-3mins long.
The story is based around a wooden horse toy; it is about a German Prisoner of War in Edinburgh at the end of WW2 who is making the toy and thinking back to his home in Germany. However his flashback to home is interrupted and destroyed by the war that literally "marches over the hill" in his imagination as he remembers that his home will now be war-torn. In the end scene he is leaving Edinburgh - either to be returned to Germany or moved elsewhere. A child notices his horse toy and at first he hesitates to give it to her, but in the end he realises he has to let go of the past and he gives her the toy.
The toughest challange will be communicating the flashback/thoughts of the PoW - I will need to clearly define what is flashback and what is the 'present' in the animation so the audience do not get confused! Depending on time, I could maybe do the 'present' in colour, and the past in black & white. Also, I am keen for the "war" that appears over the hill to be bright fiery red/orange colours in contrast to a black and white scene.
I definately hope to add some sound affects to the animation (some indicated in the storyboards) and would love to have radio broadcasts about the end of the war as a background sound also, which would help with setting the time period.
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