Group - Animatic

Following what we believed to be a successful storyboarding session, we decided to make our animatic; this involved us filming the shots on our storyboard, and then exporting them from our camera to the computer, where we then edited them.

The whole process of producing and editing our animatic has been extremely useful. Drawing out the pictures allowed us to get an idea of what our idea would look like on screen when we have filmed our footage, whilst the editing stage of the process was helpful because it not only gave us more experience with using premier and the editing tools on it, but also because it allowed us to time the shots as to how we long we would expect each one to last for - this was helpful because we timed each one to be as long as we wanted it to be, and our film came in at two minutes and two seconds, close to the allocated two minutes we have for filming.

Whilst there is a shot that seems as though it is too long (the shot of the protagonist walking to the warehouse), we actually planned this shot earlier in the process to be of short length, but during the editing process decided to make it longer, as after a group discussion, we decided to add in more shots during this sequence, as by this point in our narrative we will have swapped to a linear sequence, meaning that the time we spent in this area needed to be as long as the time we would actually spend if we were to go through the route taken in real time.

The final noteworthy point from our animatic is the final shot, where our title appears. Once we had found our font and applied it to the title slide, we applied a red colour fill-up, connoting blood. Although this was somewhat experimental (as shown by the white border), it is a technique that we may consider when we finally produce our piece.