Animatic Reflections

Looking back on my animatic has made me see a lot of mistakes that I have happened and therefore has allowed me to reflect on the success or failure of my animatic shots.

Range of Shot Types & Editing Transitions:

In the animatic I didn't include all my point of view shots which would have seemed to make the film have more direction with where they were going. The shots of people running away created the mysterious effect that I wanted from my opening sequence.

The transitions between the titles worked well with the fade out to blacks occurring and therefore not having the titles within shots.

Appropriate Pace & Content for Genre:

At times I feel the pace of my shots at the beginning is a bit slow and it detracts the focus from the film because it is not moving on in a quick pace. However with the point of view shot I feel I needed to have more then one shot to represent the POV to quicken the pace to the film, instead of just having one shot to represent the POV.

Position & Order of Titles:

Throughout the opening titles I feel the titles have followed a conventional order. The transitions between titles and main film shots I feel works well to take the titles out of the film. I also have the titles to switch focus away from one moment of action to another.

Introduction of Characters:

After doing audience research I felt that the establishing characters was not as important as establishing other things such as raising enigma codes in the opening sequence, therefore the characters do not seem to have much identity in the opening sequence.

Introduction of Storyline:

Again I felt that storyline establishment can be developed in the actually film and not in the first 2 minutes of an opening sequence. Therefore the opening sequence doesn't have much in the way of an introduction of a storyline.

Clearly an Opening Sequence:

The enigma codes raised in this opening sequence allow the movie to represent an opening sequence.

Use of Sound:

Although not all the official sound effects and soundtrack I will use in the film, it does still create the effect I want to get across to the audience. There are some sound effects that need to be included into the animatic, such as running footsteps when running through the woods.