EVALUATION

Questions for evaluating my animatic:


 - What did I learn from my research into animatics? What are they and why are they used?

Animatics are basically drawn frames that are simply animated together in order to convey a shot-by-shot presentation and give an idea to what the final piece could potentially be. After research of what animatics are, I believe this is vital in our production towards our final piece. Animatics for our opening sequence is the closest thing we can do to visualize our ideas.

 - What are they key conventions / form of an animatic?

Animatics often are illustrated with pens or pencils and not put into motion but placed together with a shot-by-shot nature.

 - What are the benefits of using an animatic in my planning for the thriller title sequence? Who will see it and why?

The benefits of using an animatic is that me and my group can visualize our ideas into the drawings and we can get a feel of what our opening sequence could potentially be. This animatic will only be shown to the producers (me and my group) rather than our audience as this is just a prototype for our final piece. Once we have taken in all considerations by other research we have conducted such as the audience research and what they want in a thriller, then we can commence filming the real thing.

 - How did you plan your animatic?

Each of the group members were issues with a template. The template involved a space of which we draw the frames and boxes where we include information about each shot like sound, camera position, lighting, etc. Once we have finished it we have chosen the best one among ourselves and added further information to it.

 - Which programmes did you use to create your animatic? How did you create the sounds?

We used Final Cut to produce our animatic. Final Cut had some sounds appropriate to our animatic such as the ambient sound effect and the footsteps. Then for shots like the shower frame and the computer frame we have made our own sounds from a recorder. We used the recorder to makes sounds from the shower and keyboard sounds.

 - What challenges did you face when producing your animatic? how did you overcome these?

We initially thought that we might have to take photo's of each drawing. This would be time consuming and the pictures would not be very clear. However we overcame this by using a scanner to scan the sheets therefore we have proper clarity of the illustrations and it was much more time efficient.

 -  How will you now improve your finished piece, based on this feedback?

After considering the animatic, there are definitely some improvements we can acknowledge for the sake of our final piece. We can consider the camera angles and movements during the start of the opening sequence to not show the protagonist's face. When the protagonist wipes the vapor off the mirror, adjusting the camera angle to ensure that the camera is not seen in the reflection. Lastly, how to elongate the narrative to reach the 2 minute marker for our assignment.


Questions for evaluating my shooting script:


 - What did I learn from my research into shooting scripts? What are they and why are they used?

Shooting scripts are meant to give a good and detailed insight of what the production will comprise of. It includes things such as the camera work, lighting, sound, editing and the dialogue as well as where and how the characters are placed and what they do. From my research into shooting scripts I have learnt that shooting scripts are rather important to everybody involved in a production as we are all provided a suggestion of how we should conduct the opening sequence.

 - What are the benefits of designing a shooting script for my product? Who will see it and why?

The shooting script is given to everybody involved in the production as it serves as a guideline of how to make the film. After Once we have taken in all considerations by other research we have conducted such as the audience research and what they want in a thriller, then we can make a few changes to the script and commence filming the real thing.

 - How did you plan your shooting script? what did you need to consider in doing this?

We had a group meeting regarding the shooting script. In that meeting, we had accumulated all our ideas and made a compromise of how the script should be. While doing this, we took into consideration of the film Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy as it is our main film of reference and we need to know how they have conveyed their narrative.

 - What challenges did you face when producing your shooting script? how did you overcome these?

Everyone in our group had conflicting ideas which we all felt somewhat passionate about to some degree. But after a long time considering and acknowledging each others thoughts we all came to a compromise by referencing Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy and its relevance to the conventions in a spy-thriller and what our audience wants from our audience research.

 - How will you now improve your finished piece, based on what you have learnt from completing this task?

We will now improve our final piece with a proper sense of direction in our production and a good sense of intensity in our dialogue with something we can all be happy about.