Animatic Storyboard

This is our animatic.

Journal 5/1/12

Group meeting on animatics and storyboarding:
we have chosen the music we will be using for our animatic and retaken all of the pictures of the storyboard to make them clearer. The storyboard is now complete after adding some different shots and writing on the credits in the correct order for the title sequence. The animatic has been loaded up and the music is being added. We've now completed all the tasks we needed to complete before shooting so that is our next aim. We have also set up the dates we will be filming and editing.

Sony Pictures

In our group meeting today we decided to use Sony Pictures for our film because they are a very well known film company, though while being well known they offer the chance to make lower budget films that still make a lot of money. They have produced films of a similar genre such as the girl with the dragon tattoo (a thriller that also involves the police to a certain extent and is also about a missing child and a mystery). We feel that Sony Pictures will offer us the chance to make an excellent thriller that will draw in a large audience and make a lot of money.

Journal

Today we focused mainly on the storyboard and animatic. We took all the necessary pictures for our animatic and developed our storyboard even further, we began putting our animatic together and made some important decisions considering what type of music we wanted to use, we had some examples and will most likely be using these to add to the animatic next lesson.

Storyboard

The shots we're using for our storyboard:

1. POV of sex offender - we see forest (partly blacked out to create an enigma) the date january 2010 appears on screen
2. Cuts to walking through forest POV shot still - hand of the man in POV moving branches out of the way - heavy breathing - music becomes more tense. Picking up pace of walking, studio name appears
3. Church flashes up in black and white, not as long as the other shots so the audience feels slightly disorientated and confused about the purpose of religion in this film
4. Back to man walking through a forest - heavy breathing again more tense, picking up pace.
5. Flash of the inside of the church -  camera shaky as if it is in POV again - walking down isle and showing actors names across the screen
6. Back to character, heavy breathing increases, actors name appears
7. Back to church - cross is becoming nearer as if the man is walking towards it unsteadily - film name appears between the cross having the cross as the 'i' in 'Enigma'
8. Back to character walking through forest, changing direction quickly as if he is running or hiding from something. Audience in the POV would create a tense, scared mood at this point - another enigma
9. Close up of cross, still in POV - camera pans to a poster of 'Missing Child
10. Camera tracks in to the poster so close we only see the paper, when it tracks out we're outside and looking at the same sign on a lampost (we see a man walk out from the forest, wearing the same distinctive shoes as the one throughout the sequence, he walks past the sign)
11. Cuts to character walking in church (producers name appears, we do not see his face)
12. Cuts to character bowing at the cross (crying?) name of director appears
13. Title sequence completely rewinds to opening shot after camera has tracked backwards, an earlier date than the original one appears on the screen. It has been made apparent that the title sequence is set later in the film

Journal

While coming up with the idea for fonts and general ideas to use in the title sequence we started to plan the beginning of the storyboard. I wrote up every shot so that we could assign someone to draw them up while we could all use the hour to do something productive instead of all working on the pictures of storyboard. We all used this hour very effectively and found some copyright free music that we are now considering and testing.

New Film Idea

Enigma

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'Emigma' is our new and final film pitch/idea. We came up with this idea after realising our previous one was not original enough, so we felt this genre and idea would help us to come up with a brand new idea that was more suited to our groups abilities as it has so many different things you can do with it.
We also felt we would be able to make a very original title sequence to this genre and that we would be able to really make the audience feel the police thriller genre with the shots and music we would be using.
'Enigma' was took a couple of lessons to make enough developments on to have a solid idea but we were each given one target to achieve by the end of the lesson to make this idea as good as we possibly could.