Animatic practice task

In order to give us an idea of what is expected of us when filming our thriller openings, we were divided into groups and given a practice task.

This involved story boarding a vampire hunting down its victim. Once we had storyboarded each shot of our sequence and inlcuded details of type of shot,angle and sound effects, we then had to photograph each drawing. This was then up loadded into an editing programme were as a group we could lengthen or cut shots, inlcude a soundtrack or sound effects and also include things such as panning or tracking.

I feel overall the task went quite well, with all memebers of the group contributing in some way to the creation of the animatic. I also feel we have gained experience in using the programme, therefore helping us when we come to do our real coursework. It also showed us how much work needed to be done in a limited time, again preparing us for the deadlines we will have to meet when filming our thrillers for real.

The improvements i would make, if i were to do this task again would be a better quality of drawing on the storyboard so it is clear what is happening in each shot, making the editing process easier. I also feel a better range of shots would be appropriate however our use of music and sound effects seemed to be timed well and was parallel to the sequence creating tension and making the animatic a good basis for our final piece.