Animatic and Audience Feedback

After finishing the animatic, everyone in the class got to peer assess and mark each others work.  The computers around the room each had a different animatic on, so we went round and watched everyone's in turn.


Below in my first version of my animatic:






We where marked on the following sections, each out of 10

• Range of shot types & editing transitions
• Appropriate pace & content for genre
• Position & order of titles
• Introduction of story line
• Clearly an opening sequence
• Use of sound

Overall, I had very good feedback to my opening sequence, however one thing really stood out for my targets was the choice of music.  

• "the music sounds like a country western"
• "the music at the start confuses things a little"
• "music choice is really bad"

Other constructive targets I got were;

• "experiment with more shot types"
• "use some different angles"
• "quicker shots to build the tension"
• "faster pace"

Taking all of these helpful comments on board, I am going to change my animatic slightly.  The things I will aim to do are:

• add more shots
• add more transitions
• speed up the tempo of the shots
• change the music
• have the opening sequence and differently (I think it might look too much like a trailer)