Written by Stella Anaman
Contributed to by Priscilla Amankwah and Tosin Oluyadi
Layout by Lorna Dean
Above is the review page for our short film Bringing Back Hope. Created entirely on Adobe InDesign
In the review we looked at existing reviews in order to emulate the layouts and the language used in film reviews. We knew we had to add shots from within the film that made it all the more interesting but didn't give away too much, and we decided to use our second poster as it displays the theme of despair quite well.
We began our storyboard process by creating a Pre-Storyboard Shotlist. This consists of our initial sequence of shots for our drama.
We mostly wrote down the main shots in the short film.
Storyboard
After this we drew up the storyboard.
Animatics
We drew out each shot on sticky notes and re-arranged them until we were happy with the result. We found out this process was quite long but detailed well the idea visually.
This meant that we saved some time and we weren't constantly rubbing out drawings because we had missed out a shot out.
We then put all of the sticky notes onto black paper and took pictures of each one individually.
They were then all put onto Final Cut Express and edited together along with recorded voice overs and soundtrack, though the music doesn't finalize the actual soundtrack we would use, but gives an idea of what we are going for in our film, so to help us visualize our final product.
We got the music from a site called incompetech, which offers royalty free music and arranges tracks by mood, genre and time period. So we would be definently using this in future.
Here is a picture of us doing the animatics on final cut express.
This is the final product of our animatics. Creating the animatics has helped us see where there could be problems in our film and we can now try and prevent them.
