Animatics

Animatics:

A main part of the media coursework is to create the animatics of your thriller plan. When we first started working on our animatics we had misunderstood that we were meant to involve every camera angle and change in each section, we had previously thought it was just showing the different scenes.

After learning of our mistake we started our animatics again, being sure to involve each different camera shot. We found that by doing this it really helped us to evaluate our plans of where our camera would be positioned to allow us to have a clear and professional looking shot.

When adding colour to our animatics we decided that our first section would be done in black and white to create an eerie and tense atmosphere, it also compliments the action going on, we'd decided that having bright bold colours would look out of place in a scene where someones getting chased. We instead added colour in when it flashes back to 6 months earlier, showing the contrast of the times and how different they were.

Creating animatics for our opening really helped as we were able to get a small glimpse of what our opening would look like. It allowed us to pick certain things out that we may not have thought looked so good as we had imagined and change them. For example we struggled with how we were going to get the rapist into the house effectively, we tried many different things but there was always something that would prevent us from being able to use the footage e.g reflections in the windows when trying to get a point of view shot through the window. Because of this we decided to change the scene slightly allowing us to have usable footage.