Anamatic Storyboard

Filming and Editing Diary

Day 1: We arrived at our filming location, Dan's house, at 5 o'clock so we had time to set up our equipment and plan what we were going to film. Nigel, our main character, arrived late home from work which was unexpected and delayed our filming. Luckily we had other shots we could capture before Nigel returned home. It had snowed during the afternoon and there was snow on the ground so we refrained from filming the car scenes until the snow had cleared.

Day 2: We arrived later on the second day of filming as there was less filming to do. We filmed the remaining outside shots and shots that involved Janet as her scenes were the shortest shots and the easiest to do. There were no major problems and everything ran smoothly.

Day 3:  We exported the tape to the Adobe Premier and logged our tapes and filled in our logging sheets. We then began cutting each individual shot and getting rid of the unusable footage.

Day 4: We saved each individually cut shot to our bin so we they were saved properly and all in one place. As we moved shots to the bin, 2 members of the group would be looking at titles to use for our Thriller opening.

Day 5:  We began watching each shot in chronological order and deciding which shots were best to use. We then dragged them onto the line to begin building up our rough cut. At the same time we also focussed on finding appropriate sound effects for shots where the sound was not clear enough such as the door slamming.                                                                                                                               Day 6: After submitting our rough cut, we began trying to cut our production down to 2 minutes. We did this by getting rid of unnecessary shots which we thought did not add anything to the finished product and would not affect the storyline. At the same time we constructed an audience feedback questionnaire.

Day 7:  We then collaborated the royalty free music, sound effects and film for our final product. We then watched  the film, made sure it ran smoothly and polished any minor errors. We dealt with continuity errors, which should have been done earlier but were only noticed at the last minute. We then added the titles, which we later changed to suit the narrative better.

Day 8: We polished our final product and changed the size and font of our titles again to make the opening sequence flow better. We added a zoom effect at the end of our film as we felt there wasn't enough tension built at the end and it was an anti-climax before the zoom was added. We then saved and exported our final product and uploaded it to Youtube.