Thoughts on the Animatic

Starting the animatic process. I was a little worried and still a bit confused on how to do it. Since this project is experimental, there will be a mix of media used for animating and applied to the environment. Yesterday as I was gathering references and looking at inspiring videos I thought about how they must've storyboarded and what essentially an animatic is. These are my thoughts:

1. An animatic is a timed storyboard. 
2. It includes sound. 
3. It should be as close to the final time and look of the film as you can get. 
4. Storyboards and rough sketches are ironed out in the animatic. 
5. However, that does not mean an animatic includes final drawings. 
6. Camera angles and complicated movements should be clearly shown in an animatic. 
7. Good animatic's show depth and perspective even if there is no background. 
8. Characters' movements and any other animated parts of the film should be visually described in the animatic. 
9. Everything should be in grayscale except for red directional arrows

This seems like common knowledge (if you're in this field) but it has really helped me grasp exactly what an animatic should say and do.