The Benifits From Our Animated Storyboard...

After my group and I discussed the plot and what would happen during our 2 minute film opening, we put together an animated storyboard so that we could visualise each shot clearly and perfect different aspects that made the film successful. The storyboard encouraged my group and I to converse with eachother, discussing issues such as timing and sound effects. Timing was something we had to consider carefully, as it was vital that we didn't run over 2 minutes and to prevent this from happening, we all discussed how long we thought each camera shot should last for and wrote it down on the storyboard. We all agreed that most of our shots would be quite quick and jumpy because our film was a horror and we wanted to build as much tension as possible. The storyboard also helped us decide where we wanted to place our chosen uncopyrighted sound effects and we thought that by having some form of eerie, non diegetic music playing constantly in the background, it would therefore keep the audience in suspense. When filming our storyboard, we tried to film each picture the way we would when we filmed it properly. For example, if the shot included a zoom, we moved the camera in towards the animation we drew so that when we looked back on it, we would know what type of effect to apply. Our storyboard also helped us with editing when we uploaded the animations onto pinnacle, allowing us to gain more knowledge of the computer programme and experiment with different effects and slide transitions as well. In my opinion, the storyboard we created helped us immensely as a group, showing us that if you put something down on paper, you can consequently see the bigger picture so you understand exactly what you want to achieve and to help you think about how you can make your work evenmore successful.