I had never had experience of creating an animatic before or
heard what an animatic was. After conducting research and looking at examples
of animatics I then had a full understanding of what an animatic was and what
my task would consist of. The storyboard was a big contribution to making the
animatic as it helped us a group to place the shots in order and when making
the storyboard we also planned what props we needed, the number of locations
and also the length of time in seconds each shot needed to be. We wanted to be
organized as a group, we each had a copy of the picture of the storyboard and
assigned one another roles whether this was bringing a prop to the shoot or
being in charge of shooting the pictures on that scheduled day, We also each
had a plan of the shooting schedule and due to our organizational skills only
had 8 shoots in total. We had 3 main locations all together which included a
grave yard, living room and a photo studio which was made by transforming an
office within the same house, the locations were easily accessible and we had
full permission of the house owners to shoot there. We were unable to shoot the
scene of Blake kneeling at the grave due to the cemetery being closed so as an
improvement for the filming process we will have to be more organized in making
sure that the places we want to film at are open. In the animatic I think that
the pictures that were taken could have been a bit more accurate to the
storyboard however there is room for improvement for this within the filming
process, At the beginning of the animatic process we had assigned a pupil in
our year as the main role as Blake however due to school pressures the actor
was unable to make that commitment, after a long period of time we struggled to
find a male actor who could fulfil the role as Blake so using our initiative to
overcome the situation we decided to change the gender of the main role from
Male to Female. Due to our film
being about social media, bullying and the misuse of photography everybody is a
victim and everyone has had bad experiences so any gender could fit the
personality role of the character Blake.
