Planning

-In this post I will demonstrate our step-by-step method of preparation, covering our whole project, starting from our earliest date, and shall edit with any updates that may occur.

To start, we were assigned our current groups, and briefed on the project. We were not told deadlines, but only that we did not have a lot of time to complete all the tasks required. Being the smart, professional students that we are, we stuck our heads straight in, and looked around on the web to find a genre that would really poke out from all the other students' (little did we know that practically everyone in our class would choose the same genre, we thought we were being unique).

After finding our perfect lead with a genre, we had to come up with a plot. This took us quite a while because we all had our own ideas, and deciding on a way to combine them proved difficult. However, we managed, wrote down our plot outline, and on to the next hurdle we went.

Next up was illustrating our stories (literally) in the form of a storyboard. Here we did two drafts - one rough, and one neat. We did this because we knew in advance that we would have to transform these pictures into a full-length animation on the iMacs, so we did not want these to look scruffy and unprofessional. Each exercise took a lesson to complete both drafts, and the storyboards were both composed of about twenty-six individual pictures.

Planning
Our Introduction sequence took a lot of planning and organization. We first had to decided on a genre and idea. Like I said before we chose a Horror/Thriller genre combination as it enabled us to demonstrate many camera techniques. After deciding on our genre we had to think of an idea that will make the audience engaged and start asking questions. We couldn't think of anything better than a chase scene and a body discovery. After deciding on our idea we then created hand drawn storyboards for both our main and our preliminary. These hand drawn pictures enable us to determine what camera angles would be best to use and which ones would be possible and viable and how long a shot should last.





After planning our opening sequence with a hand drawn story board. we then decided to create a photographic storyboard to really see if these shots could work. It also let us make some adjustments on shots that just were not possible. After making sure our shots where possible and appropriate we decided that before we start filming we create a storyboard animation with both our hand drawn sketches and our real shots to see how the shots looked in a film like manner, see whether once they are put in order to makes a decent and easy to understand film. Once we had produced the right shots that could work in a film we added a rough soundtrack to our clip to make sure it has the right effect. We know had to story board animations, one of a hand drawn sketch and one of camera shots. After making sure our storyboards and animations where complete we decided to replace the still clips with real footage.