Benefits of Using Animatics.

For the plot of our 2 minute film opening, we chose to base it along a horror theme which we would include many types of suspence to keep the viewer involved and well entertained. To help us before filming our piece, we created animatics, which involed drawing the details on each scene and filming each part, so all together we could get a rough idea on the concept and the way in which our film would be planned, filmed and put together to make it as successful and professional looking as possible. When filming each scene, which as a group we created all together, we found the problem was that the timing needed to be thought about carefully incase our piece was too long for the limit of 2 minutes that we needed. This helped us arrange time slots for each scene we will shoot and the amount of time needed to create the perfect filming position.
As our genre is horror, we wanted to show the different zooms and sharp movements when filming our animatics. This included close up that immediately focused on a specific point very quickly or sharp pans across the pan to demonstrate the camera movements to create unease and fear. Although this proved successful at first, we realised parts of the table or other extra non needed objects could be seen in our animatics, which obviously would not be seen when filming, so we had to reshoot our animatic storyboard which created a learning curve for us, helping us learn about professionalism and perfection when working with our piece.