an initial edition or forerunner of a film, often a commercial, which contains a sequence of storyboard shots accompanied by a soundtrack
the Douglases created an animatic - a limited-animation video storyboard using sketchesand cardboard miniatures
animatic in American English
(ˌænəˈmætɪk)
(in advertising)
noun
1.
a preliminary form of a television commercial consisting of a series of drawings with a voice-over, prepared chiefly for test-marketing
adjective
2.
of or pertaining to animatics
Word origin
[perh. b. animate or animation and automatic, prob. on the model of photomatic a similar commercial made by filming still photographs, based on Photomaton the trademark name of a kind of automatic camera]