Time managment

Every second counts from EleanorBinley99

Experience of making an animatic

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.

Process of creating an animatic

Process of storyboarding to creating an animatic from EleanorBinley99

What is an animatic and its function

Subtitles for my trailer

Exposure - animatic and trailer subtitles from EleanorBinley99

Sixth meeting - final copy of our shooting schedule

This here is our final copy of our shooting schedule however after creating it we didn't think that it gave us enough information about what we had to bring to each shoot and what the shoot was actually going to be about so for each scheduled shoot we had a folder which contained prop information, contact details, shoot locations and costumes.

The fourth meeting - Creating a film schedule

Monday 9th January 2017

Meeting lasted 2 hours

The fourth meeting consisted of me and my group creating a filming schedule that would organize us on when we are going to film and when we are going to edit our final film. To make sure we both had a clear copy of our filming schedule we created a table and both had a copy. We both agreed that the next available date that we were able to start filming on was the 22nd of January 2017. Because this is a few weeks away we thought about what we could do in-between in order for us to make the filming successful.

 Props and costumes are the main key features within a film as they show feeling, expression and they describe what type of person that character is, for example if a character was wearing pyjamas in the middle of the day during a film it may show that the character is unwell or it could mean that the character is a lazy person. So we decided to allocate roles of who is going to buy or make certain props and costumes so that when it comes to the first filming date everything is ready. We created a table with the allocated roles on:

Lauryn              

• Blood face paint
• Dark clothing
• Photographs

Eleanor

• Balloons
• Silly string
• Party themed props
• Photographs                    

Because our film is based around camera's and photography we thought it would both be important to have as many photos and camera based props as possible to turn a room in a house into a photography studio.