On Thursday 23rd October we did our practice animatic. I think that overall this exercise went fairly well.
The things that worked well in out practice animatic were firstly the planning and the storyboarding as i think we worked well as a group to produce this. I also think that the diegetic sound fitted in very well with the all of the images on the screen and were typical sounds used for the thriller genre, therefore reinforcing it. The pace of editing went very well and worked well with the sound and images in the shot because the editing was quite fast paced and mirrored what was happening on the screen, for that reason it once again reinforced the genre. In addition the way in which we recreated the camera in order to add a more realistic effect worked very well and looked very real and believable also, particularly in the panning shots.
However our animatic was not perfect and in order to improve our animatic we could do the following things; firstly we could improve our quality of images as they were not drawn to a very high standard and therefore some became quite unclear in meaning. To improve them we could draw neater and in more detail. In addition to this we could research key storyboard techniques and notations such as directional arrows so that it is easier and clearer for the audience to understand what is going on in the shot. As well as this we could also improve the quality of photographing the images a bit more because they were very blurry, slightly off colour and overall to a fairly low quality. To improve this we could have used a scanner to scan the pictures onto the laptop instead of using a digital camera to photograph them, as this will make our pictures much clearer. By doing this it will also make it much easier to crop the photos to size and will remove any writing and notes around the frame.
To improve our animatic even further we could have included some parallel non-diegetic sound, also known as background music as this would have added to the suspense and tension in order to engage and involve the audience. Non-diegetic sound is a common convention of the thriller genre and so thus tied in perfectly with both the genre and the editing.
