Updated Animatic

For this updated version of my animatic I have addressed some of the issues that I didn't feel were working from the first draft.

• I added a textured background wall to the first sequence to explore what it might add to the piece, I think it helps to give some context to the action.
• For the sanding and painting sequence I had, before producing the first storyboards, imagined it as an overhead shot but I struggled to visualise this at first, wrestling with the idea of making it as readable as possible. With feedback from Ed, I returned to my original idea for this animatic and am pleased with the results.
• From the first animatic it became apparent that for the film adaptation I would need to signify the learning that the Melancholic Wife takes on that enables her to overcome and access her power in the last sequence. In consultation with Sadhbh, we decided that we would explore the concept of her taking one of the ghosts with her, accepting this avatar of her teenage self into her arms as she's swallowed by the blackness.
• The final scene has also been changed for this version. Now the Melancholic Wife emerges from the dream space through a door created from the light of her self expression. She re-enters the 'unromantic walls of her real life', a space signified by objects and ephemera from the comic stories, 'striving to hold on to the nuances of her transmutations' by taking up a pen and journal.