Animatic Diary Entry

Today when creating our animatic we had to finish off drawing our storyboards and then adding colour to them. We created five storyboard pages which all had to be scanned so that we could edit them in paint and then add them to windows movie maker. In paint we made the colour stand out more and made the outline for the characters. Using movie maker we can put one image after another to make it seem as if they are moving.

The good things that happened on the day were that we could get on with work eventually when we had the colours and other utensils.

The bad things on the day were that as soon as we got into the room the power was off in the room and none of the computers would come on and we could not get on with the work, another bad thing was that it took another thirty minutes after the hour that it took for the computers to come on, and finally because there were so many storyboard pages and so many things going on it took a while to do the drawings and to get every picture coloured in.

Preliminary

This is our preliminary video which we created to test our skills on using different camera angles and other camera uses. (e.g. zoom) We used a variety of different camera angles in the production with only two characters these characters are Ryan Rheeston and Lauren Powell, using the camera was Craig Fallows. When the preliminary was made all we had to do was edit it using the software final cut express. The best aspects of the preliminary were the camera angles because there were a large variety which showed our skills and knowledge of a camera and how to use it, examples of the camera angles were zoom and over the shoulder shot, we got both of the characters involved by going over the shoulder of both the characters.

The bad aspects of the preliminary were the sounds in the background of people and other noises outside, also in the act it lacked dialogue which meant that the storyline was hard to follow and it made the whole seem meaningless. There were plenty of things that could of been improved in the preliminary like the way everything was put together and the sounds in  the background could of been removed or there could of been another sound over the top of it, also before everything was recorded there could of been a script put together to add more dialogue to give a stronger structure for a storyline.