'Terror in the night'

Recently in Media Studies, we were assigned to get into groups of 3 or 4 and to produce a 10 shot storyboard titled 'Terror in the night'. The groups were dependent on certain skills we said we would prefer to do such as technical, planning, leadership and so on. Once we had thought of an idea for the short, we had to transfer this idea onto a storyboard with 10 shots. We had to draw the images onto the shots and include additional information, such as the shot type was very important, the duration, the effects/transitions and camera motion and so on.

Once this was done, we were then assigned to further develop the storyboard and then make it into a digital animatic. This was done by taking pictures of the shots and editing them together, using music and sound effects to create a visually represented storyboard with sound. This was a really useful task, as it will help us when it comes to creating the trailer for our short Thriller film we will be developing for coursework. The animatic also helped establish a certain tone we were aiming for which is harder to show on just pieces of paper. The animatic we made is shown below:

We were all happy with the animatic and think it represents our storyboard very well, and achieves a good effect of chilling the audience.