I began animating using the sound file as a guide. I used markers to visually indicate when each word was spoken and this allowed us to align the graphics and voice. At this stage we were mostly playing around with the edited text and finding the best ways to make it fit with the sound. The voiceover was soft and the hand lettering was so strong on its own that it made sense to do away with the initial wipes and transitions we had been experinmenting with and really focus on paying on the contrast between black and white.
The benefit of this is that the actual animating itself became really straightforward, and the really time-consuming part was listening to the speech word by word and mapping every syllable with a marker to use as a guide for animating. Hannah took over the animating later in the day and we started to see it come together quicker than expected.
Arranging the screenshots in chronological order and scaling to correct size
Dropping markers at the start of every spoken word and arranging the text to appear at these times
At the end of the day, we evaluated what we had done and both agreed that the imagery was most effective when the visual effects were minimised. For all 4 of the animations, we chose to remove several of the transitional effects we had used and instead had the text pop in and out.
Tomorrow, we hope to finish the Earthly Substance animation and evaluate it. From this we can start to plan the remaining two. I would like to have the two other soundtrack files finished to continue working tomorrow. With two of us animating, I am hoping we can beat our deadline and have all of the animations finished by the end of the day on Friday.
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