the Animatic

we did an animatic to show what our final outcome would look like following our storyboard, this is part of the planning process and helps us know what we're working towards and if we need to work on any of it. it is only a rough mock up of what we're aiming for -





we still need to add the sound effects and a soundtrack in the background, and some editing still needs to be done, but this gives us a really good idea of what we are working towards before filming and lets us see our idea pieced together. from this animatic we can see what we need to develop and change also.

we all really liked the animatic and were quite enthusiastic about it, the whispers coming out of the locket were effective as non diegetic sound and the over the shoulder shot which focuses on the locket was also effective as it showed the audience the inside of the locket, the reverse shot fot he characters reaction also worked well and we liked this part of the storyboard. however, from looking at this i feel the long shot is too far away and it would benefit from being a bit closer, more personal. we also need to work on the ending, the zoom into the locket is very cliche and our alternative ending, of the boy running through trees is also cliche, so we need to work on an appropriate ending. we will brainstorm this next lesson and make a revised stroyboard with a changed ending as none of us are keen on the zoom. We are also worried about the length of the piece, it is only a minute long, and the brief states it should be two minutes, we might think about adding another scene to continue the narrative of the locket following the character, or we might change and lengthen some of the woods scene, this is something we need to talk about.