Week 1
- Alisha Gupta
- Feb 13, 2022
- 2 min read
The first week was a bit overwhelming for me as it was my first time being in studio and in a completely new environment as I was previously studying online and unable to enter the UK. I did however begin by laying out all my storyboards and going over them in class and this initial process helped me eliminate the panels that weren’t clear enough, or needed better direction in terms of the perspective which our tutor helped me with.
His re drawings, after seeing my sequence of the panels that needed fixing, helped me quickly work on mine and finalise the pages that were ready to be formatted for the timeline.
Finally being in studio after four months into the first year, certainly gave me the motivation that I didn’t have remotely learning because this time around I wasn’t alone, I was in a collective where everyone around me was facing this challenge together and that definitely drove me to push myself.
After the panels were green lit in class I scanned each of the 79 of them and brought them into Photoshop by dividing each one into a series of artboards page wise into the size given to us that was the aspect ratio used in film.
This process did take quite a while I was getting familiar with operating the systems on site where the monitor initially didn’t recognize my hard drive and I had to buy an external memory stick that wasn’t formatted previously in a mac. After this stage I began placing them on a timeline in Adobe Premier Pro where I could view them as a sequence that played the animatic to me for the first time as a film.
This once again helped me eliminate the panels that didn’t work and any additions that were needed to bring about more clarity and stitch together scenes that didn’t feel related. Thankfully because I kept a strict numbering on each panel through post its I was able to keep track of what went in and out so as to not confuse myself with the number of drawings.
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