Thursday 28 April 2011

Sounds

Using a script for the animation some volunteers recorded the narration and voices. A shotgun fire was located for the race start, and also some general sounds of gravel been walked over.
These sounds were attached to the appropriate parts of the story within adobe premiere pro and the complete animation then exported into a video file. On playback of the whole animation I noticed that the sounds overpowered the visual, as such I opened up the sound files into adobe soundbooth and adjusted the amplitude for them. The edited files were then imported back into adobe premiere pro and used to replace the sound files there.

Scenes

Using the storyboard as a guideline I devised several scenes by which to tell the story. The story basically starts with the hare boasting how fast he was to the tortoise, leading the tortoise to challenge him to a race. It then goes on to see the race start with the hare speeding off into the distance and the tortoise moving very slowly. The hare, seeing how far ahead he is moves off the path to have a rest, but then falls asleep. The tortoise carries on slowly and gets close to the finishing line. The hare then wakes up and looks up with surprise to see the tortoise near the end. Quickly the hare speeds off back down the path and is just about to pass the tortoise and go through the finishing line when he strikes a small rock on the ground and his front wheel falls off. This leaves the tortoise to walk slowly on through the finishing line and win the race.