Audience Assessment of Animatic

This is my first animatic, unfortunately due to difficulties it contains no music or dialogue.







So today our class took part in assessing each others animatics; moving around the room and marking the animatics out  of ten in these sections:

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

These were the COMMENTS that I received-

' Introduced storyline well... good range of shots.'
' Like the range of shot types and you introduce the storyline and characters well.'
' I really like the shot types... the close-ups were effective... good story line.'
' Introduces the main character well... made it very clear that it was an opening sequence as the titles were good.'
' Good range of shot types... effective use of close-ups.'
' Good range of shots and clear that it's an opening sequence.'
' Good variety of shots.'
' It is presented as clearly being an opening sequence... the plot is still unclear'
' It shows that it's an opening sequence... shot types were good-different ranges.'


So as you can see, the results cover the same points over and over again, and therefore the highlights of my animatic have become clear to me.

These are the TARGETS that I received-


' Sound would add to the genre and make it more tense.'
' have the titles spread throughout...sound may make it seem more scary/dramatic.'
' I would prefer the titles to be interspersed with the footage...would prefer if the shots picked up pace at the end.'
' Remember to take off Ken Burns...add sound.'
' Some shots may be too long, like the first shots.'
' Turn Ken Burns off.'
' Do not like the title lengths, would prefer titles to be put into the film...get rid of Ken Burns.'
' You may want to turn Ken Burns off!'
' Titles could be made shorter...turn Ken Burns off.'

Again the targets highlight the same points. It's clear that the majority would prefer that I intersperse the titles into the opening sequence more, as well as make the titles shorter. The reason that I had put the majority of the titles at the beginning of the opening sequence, is because that is how Mirrors ad Black Xmas had done it and.
I also want to pick up on how one comment said that I should increase the pace at the end; the reason that I have kept it all one pace is that I feared that it may lend it's self to being a trailer instead.
As for making the titles shorter (currently I have them at 6-9 seconds), I think this is something that I will change and instead add in a couple more production/distribution companies to make up for any lost time.
And finally I want to say that I was well awear that I need to add music and dialogue, and will shortly do so.