animatic

Anamatic Evaluation

I have chosen 5 key images to show how our anamatic relates to and creates meaning for our target audience:












These pictures represent our target audience as many of them will be students. We see Nathan on his way to school on his own which highlights the isolation relating to the bulling we see. The target audience of 16-24 may be able to relate to the bullying scenes because they may have had experience with it at school. We also see a group of friends in a classroom laughing and in a canteen. All these photos represent our age group and experiences of our target audience.

Anamatic Evaluation

During the process of making our anamatic we uploaded our pictures onto the computer and edited the timing and effects of each photo using the editing software. Some shots needed more time than others, to create effect with some shots were very short like a flash. For our titles we studied conventions from real horror/thriller/psychological films e.g. Paranormal Activity 3. Due to technical difficulties we were unable to record sound to use in our anamatic, we created a script and discussed music to create effect especially when the editing pace increases at the end. Our completed anamatic appeals to its target audience by the age of the actors used our target audience is between mostly male 16-24 and all the actors were students between the ages of 17-18. The lead character is male relating to our target audience. The setting of our school also relates to the younger age range of our audience who are likely to be in or just left education.
When making our actual trailer i would like to add music, sound effects and a voice over, but generally keep the narrative and editing similar. I took the majority of the photographs for our anamatic, and filled in as an extra when we needed someone i also uploaded all the photos onto the editing software and put them in the order we need to use them and added some effects. I also created the inter titles and added them to the sequence, i will be doing much of the same in contribution to our moving image trailer.

Animatic Evaluation

An animatic is a storyboard of photographs played in a video with sound effects/music played over it. The functions are to get an idea of what the video you want to produce will look like, in our case or our film trailer we needed to see what shots we would use. To decide on order, what sound to use, how many shots to use and to make a basic plan of what our trailer will look like. The process involved taking photographs of all the shots we wish to use in out trailer and making a slideshow of the pictures. In order to achieve this we used digital cameras and learned how to use the editing software on the computer in school. We created and developed the narrative for our animatic by drawing a storyboard of all the pictures we wanted to take and planning the locations, characters, time etc that we needed to take the photos.
When creating our storyboard we took into account the fact that our shots had to be realistic so there were very few changes from the shots we sketched to the pictures we used in the finished animatic. Also many of our photos turned out better than we had planned. Our storyboard helped to organize our schedule because we were able to plan dates and times to take photos at different locations. We took all the photos we needed at school in one day when we were all available, and took the other photos outside school and at the house we are using as one of the sets in our trailer, in order to save time and get all of our pictures done efficiently.
We had 2 different photo shoots, one in school as some of our trailer is set in a high school including scenes with other students and in classrooms, and one in Lauren's house. As a member of our group we are using her house as one of the main sets for our trailer, because its easier to use one of our houses and it's close to school. All of our group were used as actors, Nathan as the main character, and the others of us as small secondary characters so it didn't interfere with our input into the making of our animatic. Other characters used were pupils at our school as we needed a large number of students and they were available at the time.

This poster displays the same style we want to use, the theme of a video camera recording, documentary style image. We will be using these type of shot in our trailer.





These posters again conform to the red,white and black colour scheme for horror/psychological/thriller film posters. Many examples i have looked at follow the conventions of a plain black background with one main image and red/white titles. Also many posters ask the viewer a question or gives a statement that plays on their fears, which engages them into the idea of the film and may make them want to see the film. Conventional main images seem to be of a weapon or iconic image from the film which hints at violence but doesn't display it boldly. This is shown in the examples i have chosen.

This film poster uses the natural mis-en-scene to create a characters face, leading the audience to question whether the character is real or imaginative. However the red writing 'It's Not Your Imagination' leads the audience to question themselves again. This creates a code of enigma, therefore the audience would want to see the film to answer the questions the poster creates. This poster uses the lead actress Sandra Bullock as it's unique selling point. Also showing the target audience for this poster will know who she is because of other films she has done. The simple colour scheme of red, white and black is often use in horror and psychological film posters. As black can represent the villan, white can be associated with the hero and red with murder, death, blood and other events which usually take place in films. I think this poster is an effective promotional device for the film, as it intrigues the audience, making them ask questions so they will want to see the film to get answers.

research for our poster

 
I think this poster is good because it focuses on a key image from the film, it uses symbolism to show the genre and hints at the narrative of abuse and characters involved eg. a stepfather and a child. The black background puts more emphasis on the main image and the red title, this poster works as a good promotional device for the film.