Media Language In Our Short Film

Anamatic

To create a more visual and in depth plan for our short film, we created an animatic, this to show what we want the shots to look like, but we also included some annotation stating what we want to happen in each shot - camera movement, sound effects, and transitions for example.

Storyboard

This is our storyboard so far, showing in depth the plan for roughly around the first half of our short film. As well as including a rough drawing showing what we want the shots to look like, we also annotated each slide and noted what kind of transition we were intending on using

Shotlist

Alongside creating our storyboard, and to help us visualise it, we created a written shot list to help us make an informed plan of how we want our story to progress, and what we want each shot to look like.

This is not necessarily the finished and exact shot list we will use for are final piece. After using this to help create the storyboard, and by extension the animatic, it is likely that we will make changes after we see what the shots actually look like.

  

Feedback From Audience

After pitching our idea to the group and receiving some overall feedback, we selected a couple of individuals to ask them more specific questions, and gain some more in depth feedback. We asked them questions to understand how are audience normally watches media products and there likes and dislikes about our idea.

Our Short Film Pitch

To gain some initial feedback on the concept for our short film we pitched it to our media studies class, who are also our primary audience.

The feedback was extremely positive, and our idea was very well received. The comedic aspect was very popular, however the concept itself with regards to the story and how we are going to create it was also well liked.

Now we know are audience like our idea, we are able to progress in the planning of it, and begin constructing a storyboard and an animatic.

                                                                           We were given advice on ways in which we could further improve our idea. The main suggestion for something we could experiment with was voices. Our initial idea was that the fruit would not talk, we would use facial expressions and an accompanying soundtrack. However people suggested we could attempt to overlay voice to the fruit, this to make it more interesting, and possibly add some vocal comedy. However if we were to do this we would have the added difficulty of lip syncing, and somehow finding a way to animate moving lips onto the fruit. 

 

So overall our pitch was very successful, and the advice we received was very useful. I think we will attempt to experiment with the idea of adding voices to the fruit, however there is no guarantee we'll use it until we have tried it and insured it both looks and sounds good.