Timing for Animation, 40th Anniversary Edition, 3rd Edition
by Harold Whitaker, Tom Sito, John Halas
Bar Sheets
From the mid-20th century to the 1990s, after the soundtrack was assembled with the called for pauses in the slugs or timed according to the storyreel, the director worked out the timing of the film on bar sheets. At Walt Disney Studios these were also called the Greys. He/she decides on scene continuity, the exact length of each scene, and what action takes place within it. He/she also plans the pace of the storytelling and decides where tracks, pans, mixes, etc., are needed to put the story over in the best possible way.
At the beginning of the film the director knows what is about to happen but the audience does not. The timing at the start of a film is, therefore, probably rather slow until the audience has been introduced to ...
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