Rough Animatic From My Initial Storyboard

Yesterday I posted the first draft of my storyboard to the blog. Today, I decided to create an animatic from this storyboard in order to see how well the frames work when viewed as a video with the correct timing (or at least as correct as it can be at this stage of development):

I am pleased with this animatic in that I am confident that the images from the storyboard are easy to read, and the general framing and layout of shots work well from a cinematographic perspective. I am however less happy with the timing of the piece as a whole; the entire animatic feels slightly too fast and many shots would benefit from being left to linger briefly before cutting to the next scene/action.

This animatic was simply a quick test to make sure the shots work and that my story makes sense visually, so I don't feel it is necessary to update this piece to be 100% correct. Clearly, however, when I come to make my final animatic for this piece, I must pay more attention to the timing of each shot, and ensure that the piece lasts longer than this animatic.