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.