First draft anamatic

We were given a task to produce an anamatic for our film to give a nice visual effect and a rough idea of what the title sequence of our film would look like. We firstly had to discuss and draw up a rough shot list to enable us to structure our storyboard slightly better. This is our first draft anamatic using all of our story board sketches that as a group we produced using combined ideas and cooperation. However we inverted the sketches to show our white images against a black background.

As this is our first draft there are some improvements that need to be made which is included in the feedback. But overall our anamatic successfully displays our film in a rough way. However a shot that was hard to portray in a drawing is shot 10, a especially long shot in our anamatic as it a shot of a 360 degree view spinning and it was hard to capture that accurately in a drawing however it is annotated on our storyboard. It was hard to get the timing right for our anamatic as the still sketches aren't as effective as a moving image, we may need to include some transition effects into our anamatic to enable it to have a moving image effect.

Feedback for anamatic:

• The inverted images were very effective.
• A wide variety of shots were used.
• However, too short, we may need: longer shots
• Missing titles: actors and actresses, the title of film, cinematography, editor, sound, producer, director.
• Diegetic sound is needed
• The pace of editing is good, a good sense of continuity.

Character sketches

As a group we tried to get a visual idea of what we wanted our characters to look like, this would make it easier for us to make a final decision in casting the characters.

Camera Practice

As a group we practiced our two main shots; the 360 degree shot, trying to judge speeds and clearness, then the shot of the feet, however we did not have the device (long board) to use to practice it so we had to improvise using a hand held camera, once again judging speed and clearness.

The image on the left is the camera we used 8 mega pixels, xacti digital water proof movie camera.

Initial shot list, props, costume etc.

This is our initial list as we need to change parts. We need to find our main character, we need double the amount of extras and we just need to change and adapt parts. The list will get bigger and more detailed.