'The Final Cut' Storyboard

We first constructed our storyboard on paper. We then scanned the individual sheets into the computer.

We then edited these in Photoshop and imported them into the video edting software and produced our animatic. We created the title sequence for 'Eradication Films' and 'The Final Cut'.

We then combined the titles and the still shots into a short animatic. later we added sound to this.

Evaluating the animatic. The added sound i feel worked quite well, although in some cases low quality sound files were used but i feel this unoticable. Also many of sound added in the animatic are infact diegetic sound and there for would not need to be added in the final production. Sounds like the thunder storm however would be, i feel this sound works very well as it creates tention very well and is an easy effect to create.

All the transistions in the animatic are fades however in the final peice the majority will be cuts. Fades were added in the animatic to create and easier effect on the eye and cuts were quite sharp.

This animatic shows the thriller genre very well as it shows how the tention is built with the use of the thunder storm and over the shoulder shot of the serial killer. The thunder storm plays for all of the high tention part of the animatic and stops abruptly when we are introduced to the detective. This realises the tention built up in the first scene. A common technique used in other thriller films such as the 'Dark Knight'.

Producing the animatic has helped us prepare for the shot in several ways. It has given us a better idea of how certain shots and the sound effects will be, and if the effect created is the deisired one. Also a better timing in the shots has been achieved as some shots were orginally too short or too long.