Peer Assessment of 1st Edit of Animatic

To start this assessment of by my fellow class mates, I had some negative feedback on the first edit of my animatic. This involved a lot of criticism on how I filmed it and not introducing the Character, Storyline and Location enough in the opening sequence.

As explained in previous posts I have expressed the desire that in my film's opening sequence I was not going to introduce the characters, location and storyline much in my opening sequence. After I completed my audience research I realised that in the opening sequence you did not have to set location, set up characters or have the storyline clear at the beginning. Therefore I have raised a lot enigma codes for the audience to question in the opening sequence.

From the peer assessment, this type of filming apparently raised a few questions that people wanted answered. However to counter that feedback, answering the questions within the first 2 minutes of my opening sequence would ruin the rest of the film as the story would have nowhere to go and would not develop into a climatic ending. This is one reason why I have so many enigma codes within the opening sequence.

Some feedback that I did take on board was to include a wide range of shots within the Point of View (POV) to create a more realistic film to the animatic and allow the character to get somewhere instead of having the voiceover and have one very long shot. When including this into the final edit of my animatic it did give the feel of a longer running shot and therefore I could add more sense of dread and fear onto the audience with the camera shots cutting away. It also gave the feel of a fast paced chase which was an effect I wanted to achieve at the beginning of the film.