Animatics

To help us with our film opening, we have used animatics to allow us to have a visual view of what our film opening should include. An animatic is a short story board drawn up and film using the right amount of time allowed on each scene so that we are able to make sure we do not go over the time limit in our real thing.

In my group we found this particulary easy, we were able to share the roles out evenly so everyone was able to draw some of the scenes. We then filmed this where we tried to use the angles we wanted to show in the real film piece allowng the times to be how we wanted them as well. We then had to upload these onto the computer for editing where we added in the film titles. We cut the scenes down and made sure the titles flowed nicely through the scenes and made sure our filming was two minutes or under. Which is was dead on 2 minutes.

After we had edited this we then created our own music piece to demonstrate how we would like it to be in the real thing. We were all very pleased with what we had created that we might use it in our final piece.
I think that this has helped a lot as now i am more aware of what our opening has to include and i feel it will help my group out more in the long run.