animatic

This is the final version of our animatic. We have recently re done all of the storyboards for our trailer so we needed to make another animatic, a task we decided we wanted to do. It is very simply edited with them all following on from one another but this time we have left more time for each picture to be shown so the viewer can absorb more information. We have also added in the "Santa clause is coming to town" song played slowly on the keyboard without singing. This is because it is a key element of our film. We felt like this was a better animatic than our previous one because it shows the story line of the film and creates more of an enigma than our previous animatic that we agreed had not been thought through and wasn't as much as a group effort as this one.

References
http://www.storyboards-east.com/animat.htm - Examples of animatics and stroyboards. Date Accessed: 23/04/2012

Storyboard New

This is the new and final version of the storyboard for our film trailer. We felt that the last one did not follow the conventions of a trailer and didn't build up as much suspense as we would have liked. As a group we sat down and decided to write the script and what images we would show with it, this enabled us being able to picture what we wanted to see and then thinking of images to match what was going on in the script.

1)The first few shots were the same as the old storyboard but we showed them in a lot more detail and made sure we planned every shot alongside the script we have produced.

2)In the second part of our storyboard is where a lot of things changed. We included every shot we wanted because compared to the old storyboard it is very detailed and shows the shots well.

3)We decided in this part of the trailer we wanted to increase tension so we showed shots back and forth between the mother and the brother. We also introduce the killer here but don't show his face or any features to give his identity away.

4)At the end of the trailer we have the title of the film. We felt like this was better compared to the other storyboard where the title was at the beginning. We will flash to the brother at the end saying one final line before ending the trailer.

'Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale' Trailer HD

Over the holidays I have been trying to improve my blog to a grade C but with little luck. To change this I plan to look at example blogs to see how they're structured and presented. I will also look at at the depth of analysis in these blogs to better my own.

As a group we plan to start filming once all our blog work is up to a good standard. We have also been watching a trailer this tightly linked to our film which we can draw new ideas from.


We came to the conclusion that we will portray our Santa character almost like the Santa character from Rare Exports. As you can see from the picture, it is Santa yet in some ways it isn't. The ways in which the character is represented as Santa is the beard and the hair due to it almost being completely white. On the other hand, he looks menacing and has grey/brown parts in his beard. Also, his crooked nose makes him look almost evil and not how Santa should be portrayed. It's as though he just looks like a stereotypical grumpy pensioner.

References
2010 - Rare Exports (Jalmari Helander)
18/01/2012 - http://uk.imdb.com/title/tt1401143/

Media Studies - Audience Research Questionnaire Results & Analysis.

Try to include a setting based around the woods or a forest and to include pictures of such in our locating scouting post. We will need to make sure that we choose the right times to take the pictures to add an enigma and boost the scare factor of where we want our trailer to be set.

Focus particularly on music for our horror elements but still making sure that the music creates suspense and an enigma as this would make the soundtrack more effective.

Plan how we can incorporate gore into the trailer without it looking cheap or tacky.

Take into account both the horror movies and Christmas movies that proved most popular with the people we interviewed. We should watch these and take certain elements from them and post what parts we are using for inspiration.

Think about lead roles, female proved most popular so perhaps we need to further develop our current female characters so that they have a more dominant role in the production or maybe include a female lead into the cast (possible heroine)

Think about how we're going to succeed in putting across the thriller sub-genre to our production; an idea for how we could do this is watch some iconic thrillers like The Shining.

interviews

These are our interviews for our trailer. We asked 5 people a few questions of what they would like to see in a horror/christmas trailer.

Silent Night Animatic Draft

Diary Entries

The first problem we encountered was that the internet in the Mac Suite was not working so we had to wait for it to come back on. After a while the problem resolved itself and we were now able to go onto the internet and upload things to our blog.

The second problem we encountered was that the sound of the animatic was not working, we haven't resolved this problem yet but we plan to sort it out as soon as we next go into the Mac Suite.

As you can see we did edit the interview and put the results of the questionnaires onto the blog.