Practice Preliminary Task

Story Board/Animatic/Animatic Feedback

This is our class completing the feedbacks for each individual animatic.

Timeline 2

Timeline 1

Costumes and Actor Shots

This is my mum Tessa Tanguy she will be featuring in my opening scene as the witness of the incident. She will be wearing casual clothes because she will be returning home from the supermarket when she witnesses the situation.

This is my sister Mia Tanguy. She is the girl that gets abducted in my film opening sequence and she will look exactly like this. She will be wearing her school uniform because the abduction takes place when she is walking home from school.

The abductor (James Bailey) will be wearing something similar to this to disguise himself.

This is James Bailey who will play the role of the abductor in my film.

Extended Research on My Chosen Genres- Crime/Thriller/Drama

City of God

The opening sequence of this film has excellent camera and production work with the chicken. I think it is quite funny when juxtaposed against the terrible living conditions portrayed in the movie.

I like this clip in the movie because it starts of really sharp to get your attention by the sounds of the carving of the knife. Immediately we are intrigued and it shows what the type of the film is. I also like how it shows a really short clip of the knife then cuts off into a blackout. This in a way is symbolizing death, like the knife kills you then your worlds a blackout. I would like to possible re-create this sort of shot in my own opening sequence because when I first seen it I really liked it so I hope other people like it to. I would either need to be really quick and sharp carving the knife or speed it up on the computer.

I like how these shots refer back to the remaining chicken thats waiting to die. I like how it switches between the shots of the process of killing the chicken and the process of getting it ready to sell and then back to the living chicken, the use of camera shots and production work really make this shot because it speeds this shot up as the chicken is getting closer to dying and as the chicken starts panicking. When it switches back to the live chicken it has filmed it so that you can see that the chicken is panicking and trying to find somewhere to go, an escape. You can see this by the chicken eyes and heart beat.

Narrative

Actors: Mia- girl that gets abducted, Mum- witness, James- Abductor
Location: Back alleyway up Les Quennevais
Costumes: School uniform, casual clothes, conventions of abductor type outfit

Shot of Mia in her school uniform walking home down a back alleyway, mixed shots of feet, walking, kicking puddles, skipping etc. Shot to abductors point of view watching the girl, burring in and out of aperture. Shots of witness walking back to her home with shopping bags, shot to car pulling over, then shot of abductors face in windscreen mirror, focusing on eyes looking from one side to another. Switch back to girl, then witness. Back to abductors car then shot of him grabbing her and her screaming. Shot back to witness dropping her shopping bags and running over then car drives off and she throws her hands up in air and sighs. Then shot off police van and 'missing' poster in front, depth of field focusing on the 'missing' poster, police van out of focus, zooms slowly out of shot.