Friday, 10 December 2010

Animatic Evaluation

Shot types and editing transitions


I have used a range of different shot types in my animatic.  At the start, I having a panning close up of photo frames on a table. I did this to show the significance if the fact that he is not in his house, and create foreshadowing.



When my character is climbing out if the house, I have a long shot of the house. This is an establishing shot to show the audience what kind of area he is in currently. This is also a convention that I noticed of social realism opening sequences, such as the long shot in this is england of Shaun leaving his house.

Establishing shot from animatic
Shot from This is england

When my character is doing up his shoes, I decided to do lots of very short close ups with quick edits in between. This section will speed up with the music and create a faster pace to my opening.  Each shot is 0.5 sections creating a 5 second of very quick edits in my opening. This part is also just before he leaves the house, so it shows a divide between the first and second part of my openings.