Animatic Analysis

An anamtic is a sequence of still photos representing the shots for our trailer accompanied by diegetic and non-diegetic sound. Its function is to give an outline/order of the trailer and helps by allowing us to see if we need to change anything.


The process of an animatic is to write the narrative of the story. Then create a storyboard of what you would want the animatic to be like, take photos and record the sound you would want in the animatic, then put the pictures and sound together.


At the start of the year, we first thought of our own plot synopsis and were then put into groups. We then as a group discussed which of the plot synopsis was the best. Our final plot was chosen which includes parts of each of our earlier plot synopsis. We then created a storyboard where we drew the picture that we would later take ourselves, and wrote details about what we would like with it like sound, and what the mise-en-scene was going to be. 


When taking the photos for our animatic we used the storyboard to organise our schedule by colour coding them so when we were going to the forest, we would take all the pictures that were in the forest, so we didn't have to keep going back and forth taking each shot. 
We only had 2 shoots as a group as most of the photos are in the forest, the rest are at school. But there is one or two shots were one of the members had to take themselves because it was at their home and was easy for them to take it themselves.
When choosing the characters, the group decided that we would all be in it so that it would be easy to organise and that we would know exactly what we would have to do. After we decided the four characters we needed one more, so we decided to use a close friend who took Drama so we knew that she would be good at the role given.
When taking photos we only had trouble with the was the shots were someone had to be hanging, as we had to take health and safety into account it was quite difficult.


During the editing process we added images in the order of which we wanted the trailer to go, in a similar order to our storyboard, although we added extra pictures were we felt necessary. We then added title screens and then recorded the sound to go over the top.


When decided the length of shots we watched the animatic over and went with how long seemed appropriate for the image. 


The choice of titles we used were the basic outline of the plot which is convential. We used a font we decided that looked good and went with the genre of our animatic.


For the soundtrack we decided not to use a conventional soundtrack and to do the sounds ourselves. Most of the sound in the animatic was diegetic dialogue but we also used chimes, to go in the background to create an  eary tension. Although it creates a slow pace, we couldn't find a good sound to put over the fast pace editing so that is something we'll have to find for the finished trailer.


I am happy with the animatic but would change some of the music for the faster paced editing parts, and also try and add some soundtrack over the top of the chimes, to add layers to our trailer.