PLANNING- Storyboarding and Anamatic

As we are moving on to story boarding in our coursework, I think it's important that we learned more about story boarding and how to go about making our storyboard. A professional story boarder, Sophie came in to our lesson to talk to us more about story boarding and anamatic and she showed us some examples of anamatics. This has helped me with the continuity task as we have to storyboard our work before we film, it will also help me when we start doing the final storyboard for the coursework, by this time we will have already made one storyboard and had several lessons about story boarding so I think we will find it quite easy. 

Sophie showed us some of her own work, a storyboard which had been made in to an anamatic, I found it helpful to see this as I wasn't sure what an anamatic was until Sophie explained that it was a timed storyboard which basically showed everything that will be happening in the film, how long it will be happening for, and the order that it will be happening in but shown by drawings. We aren't required to make an anamatic for our continuity task but we are for our coursework so this was very useful to see and to have explained as it will be easier to make our anamatic when the time comes. 

As well as Sophie's own work, she also showed us the anamatic for the title sequence of the Disney show 'Gravity Falls', after we watched this we were shown the actual title sequence. I found it very interesting to see the contrast between the anamatic and the actual title sequence, obviously our piece wont be as detailed or advanced as this one but it was very useful to see what an anamatic looked like and how it helped make the real title sequence. 

This is our anamatic; I didn't find it as hard to make as I thought that it would be. As we had already completed our story board we just took pictures and filmed some of the shots. Then we put it all together and edited it so that the image that appeared at the time was shown for the amount of time as we planned it to be for in our final film. If we were to make this again I would change some parts of the story board and consider making the story board again as I don't think that some parts are as clear as they should be. Additionally I would add in some non diagetic sound, some sound effects and music to give ourselves and everyone else a better picture of what our opening will actually be like. Also, some of the separate pictures on the story board have been photographed side ways, which shouldn't have been done, however we struggled to get it finished in time as we made the anamatic twice as it went wrong the first time.