Thriller Opening - Animatic

Today we presented our final animatic for our thriller opening - Tracker. We were late at submitting our piece due to frequent conflicts of interest between group members. We were eventually able to work together as a group to produce a piece that combined aspects of all our ideas, enabling us to satisfy everyones requirements. This malfunction allowed me to reasses how our group work together, making it clear that all future areas of the assignment would need to be discussed more thoroughly and for meetings between group members to be more scheduled and time efficient.

To maximize the effect of our thriller opening we have decided to make a few amendments following feedback from our subject teacher. To create a more vivid sense of environment we are now going to open with an establishing shot of the area, making sure that it is focused on the street corner which the protagonist passes round. We are then going to edit the speech said by the shopkeeper from "He's onto us" to "He's left the building". This will help to un-complicate the plot without removing the sense of realism and suspense. We are also going to include more titles and actors names throughout the production ensuring that the final title is the director. Also we have decided that we are going to close with an Establishing shot of the train leaving with the protagonist highlighted in shot. This will create a more definite and dramatic ending. Finally we need to make sure that we include more diegetic sound to reinforce the verisimilitude of the piece.