Bringing the Story to Life - Animatic and Evaluation

[Animatic still to be uploaded]

My group's animatic, although it was finished late, turned out fairly well in my opinion. The reason it was overdue was mainly because of group conflicts, in terms of ideas on what our animatic should include. However, we eventually were able to produce a piece of work that every member of the group was satisfied with. After this task, its evident that our communication and organizational skills as a group need to be improved to enable us to complete work on time and to a high standard.

After showing our final animatic to our teacher, he offered us some imporvements to consider in order to increase the quality of the animatic as a whole:

1. We missed the 'Directed By' text in the opening.
2. An 'Establishing Shot' needs to be included.
3. Edit the dialogue to not give too mush away too soon.
4. Include an 'Establishing Shot' of the train leaving at the end of the opening.
5. More diagetic sound in the animatic e.g. footsteps.

Additionally, we discussed each member of the group's class / personal schedule in order to find dates that we could film, and drafted a shooting schedule to tell us when we will be filing and exactkly what we need whilst out on location. However, because it's still early in the year and we are filming outside, the weather has to be taken into consideration and the forecast must be checked on the day of the shoot to see if its still possible. If shooting is not possible due to weather, it should be re-scheduled for the nearest possible date.

We have also begun to think about possible actors to featur ein our opening. We have many friends / class mates that study drama at out school, making them a wise choice to cast as they having acting ability making our film more realistic and convincing.