Checkmate Animatics

These are our animatics. I think we still need to work on the speed of our cuts but overall these will help us with our filming and especially with our editing.
We also have to develop our script more and finish our music.

At 16 seconds into our animatics there is a sudden cut to a close up of our actress's face. We have chosen to do this because it shows the full emotion in her face, and the sudden cut allows her shock to be enhanced.
At 1:27 we have chosen to shoot a birds eye shot of her lowering herself into a bath. This shot is important because we want to make it obvious that she is trying to kill herself, so it is important to see her submerging herself under the water.
When we film these shots, we will probably try a variety of different angles so that we have lots to choose from and also different angles may connote different things. However, the shots may differ from our animatics because when it comes to filming and editing, things may look better or different as live motion rather than drawings.

I am looking forward to creating the split screen as we recently worked out how to create one. This will add something extra to our film trailer and also give us a change to use our new skills.

Filming Preparation

Both the filming schedual and prop list should help us get everything done that we need to do on the day of filming and if we don't get everything done, we will know which parts we still need to film.

Pre Filming Evaluation

We plan to film the footage for our trailer during the half term because we will have more time to film during day light and also if we go wrong, we wont have to wait until the weekend before we can film again. 

However, even though we have drawn out our story board and have put it all together on final cut express, we have still not finished the music to accompany our animatics. Another thing that has gone a bit wrong is that since putting our animatics together, we have found out that we aren't completely happy with our trailer and we feel that it needs something else. Obviously the trailer might turn out better once it has been filmed and edited better than our animatics have. We are going to try and stick to our story board to avoid disorganisation and any mistakes, but we have also written a list of other shots to film that we might be able to add into our film during editing.

I don't feel that we are up to date and I am worried that when we film in the half term, we wont be properly prepared and we will end up rushing shots off in order to get it out the way. Half of our group is away today, but in the next lesson I think we need to go through our storyboard and think of all the posible different shots we can do and also make a checklist of all of the props and outfits that we need on the day.

In terms of equiptment, we used the film camera to film our music video and our AS coursework, so we feel comfortable using this sort of camera; however, we are thinking of using a flip cam this year because the quality is often better. We did worry about the steadyness of the flip cams, but we have access to a tripod so this shouldn't be too much of a problem.