Our Animatic

This is our finished Animatic...




During our animatic we made a soundtrack to fit, but it isn't the soundtrack for our actual thriller. However making it made us think about what we are going to have as our music. It will be loosely based on the animatic soundtrack.

We had a few problems with the transitions in our animatic but we sorted them out and they hopefully show the direction of the camera (camera movements)

Working Title

We finally agreed to call our thriller 'DREAD'

We had several discussions about what to call it. We thought about:
- Fear
- Trepidation
- Entrapment (we liked it but its copyright...) :(
- Terror

We wanted quite a simple title (only 1 or 2 words) We thought a shorter title can sometimes be more effective than a long-winded one.

Our Idea

The idea that we have chosen originally is of a forest.
We want to have an opening shot of the outside of a forest to set the scene. the main idea is to have a person running through a forest but you see it in first person, so the camera is being run through the forest so that the audience is sort of the runner as first person. we want to have the credits coming up, maybe on a blank black screen and then throughout the running, interpose fast flashing shots of flashbacks.

Previous Student Work Evaluation

this is a student vedio which we looked at to help with inspiration
there were some really atmospheric shots in it which helped to set the scene at the beginning

The camera angles are good. Particularly the shot from inside the boot. We don't know what or who is in there and this adds suspence which is a key feature of a thriller.
However there were some really abstract bits in this thriller opening. For example when the guy opens the boot of the car he just walks away, leaves the boot open with the camera pointing at the sky & then returns for no reason.
We didn't really understand it.

Thriller Opening Ideas

Idea 1
- Forest (dark/dusk)
- Camera running through forest in 1st person
- Fast/flashing images (like flashbacks)
- Don't know if the persons the attacker or the victim
- Blood wiped on leaf. Zoom in on leaf. Credits appear on leaf.

Idea 2
- Starts black
- Credits drift across the screen (hear Diegetic sound)
- Slowly seea chink of light appearing at bottom of screen
- Gets brighter as credits go on
- Credits finish. Light gets brighter and you see its from under a door.
- Hear breathing an footsteps.

Idea 3
- Trapped in shopping centre
- Following someone in 1st person
- Superimposed footsteps
- Stop on the corner. Grabbed by mystery thing (person or creature)

Introduction

Our group changed from our Kids TV Group

Now we are now - Dan Luci & Amy



Dan will be doing the majority of the editing and will possibly act in it, as well as doing some camerawork.
Luci will be working on the music in garageband and will also be doing camerawork too.
Amy will be working on the music as well as possibly acting in our thriller.

We will all be helping with the camerawork and editing.