Animatic

Before starting our animatic, our group went over to Adenbrookes to check out he location and surroundings to see what we ha to work with. After having done this, we decided to base our Animatic around what we'd seen in the Psychiatric Ward. 

Firstly, we drew up our animatic on to a story board, the took pictures of each story board frame and threaded them together in sequence. Although we decided against having a soundtrack to our thriller piece, we could use some sounds well to create tension and suspense with the audience.

Evaluation Notes

1. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
• We have used two male and one female character. This can be interpreted in two ways, first being male dominance and female vulnerability, as the female is in Psychiatric hospital and would appear to be insane, and the other being female innocence.
• We have used a night filter which has increased tension and a feeling of uncertainty and suspension in our thriller opening.
2. How does your media product represent particular social groups?
• Our opening shows a stereotypical mentally ill patient lying in a plain white room with nothing mentally stimulating around and where the patient has just been left to wallow in self pity.
3. What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?
• To try and get our thriller piece noticed by a big production company like "21st Century Fox" if it were to be made into a feature length film, we might make a mini film of our thriller piece "Breakout", using actors like George Baglin, but then if it were to be noticed by such  big media institution, and a more established actor like George Cloony could fill the part of the unestablished actor like George Baglin.
4. Who would be the audience for your media product?
• Our target audience would be yound adults onwards.
5. How did you attract/address your audience?
• We would try to attract people who seem to show and interest and get creeped out by the mentally ill and those who enjoy detective thrillers.
6. What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing the product?
• I have learnt how to get distorted angles on a camera to create an eary affect, how to use Final Cut to create different affects on our footage like night filters and how to emboss and sharpen the footage.
7. Looking back to your preliminary task, what do you feel that you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?
The preliminary task was no help to our media, because  for this we didn't need to do any researching or make a story board, which meant we didn't have much understanding or practice for what was expected of us for our thriller. Although we didn't have much understanding into what wen into story boards, etc, as we had the blogs of the groups previous to ours, to look over and gain a deeper understanding into what was expected of us and how everything needed to be strung together. The group now understands how to identify and record specific shots that would create certain tension and atmosphere in or thriller. I now feel confident in using all of the equipment and using all the equipment. Although the preliminary task didn't prove to be very helpful with the story board and research, it taught me how all of shots work together and camera angles.  

Our Filming Location

For our thriller piece, we had managed to get an un-used psychiatric ward in Adenbrookes hospital which was the perfect setting for our media thriller, which revolved around patient in a psychiatric ward. Having previously seen the ward, our media decided to build or animatic around the location and it's settings.

Unfortunately, Adenbrookes became contaminated by the winter vomiting virus and were told by the college that going to Adenbrookes to film would not be a good idea. As a group, we decided to take our teachers advice and not put our health at risk and try and find another location to film our media. This proved to be very difficult as we were literally told on our day of filming our thriller that Adenbrookes is out of bounds to all student from the college. We then had to try to find a new location to film for filming that fits the criteria of our media, and the only places we could think of was a corridor in our college and te college's first aid room.

Due to this, our thriller piece has not been up to the standard it would have been had we been able to film in Adenbrookes. Setting all else aside, with the facilities and location on offer in such a short space of time, we made the best use of what we had to work with and not all hope is lost. We had the difficult challenge of trying to get an ordinary college corridor with students in all the classrooms along the corridor to look like a psychiatric ward full of the mentally unstable.

The pictures below are what we had to work with and try to make look like a hospital ward.