Film opening animatic

(arrows indicate the movement of the camera within the shot.)

This is our film opening animatic. Alot of it seems quite bare, just random shots of places, this is because we didn't (apart from in one shot) draw in the peoples/bikes. So in all of the scenes of bits of road and countryside/village there will be bikes traveling through the frame. Also at the start with the long held shot there will be the sound of people climbing, and then subsequently climbing into view. The camera will then follow these people (indicated by the zoom in the animatic) tracking from behind, til they arrive on top of the grassy knoll, at which point we will have a long held shot of the landscape with them in the foreground having some dialogue, this is what the second long shot is (it seems rather boring in the animatic due to this lack of dialogue). They will then turn and go back down the hill and the title will appear, something vaguely like shown in the animatic, although this obviously only a rough version.

Despite these rather large holes, the animatic still serves its main purpose to give some idea of the structure of the final thing and what it will look like. We have this clearly shown in the first section empty of non-diagetic sound then contrasted with the boys journey home with the song playing over the top. This will be the structure of the opening for the final thing. The song I chose is 'Everybody Knows This is Nowhere' by Neil Young, I mainly chose it due to the lyrics covering similar themes to ones we might explore in the film, plus borrowing the films own title from it. However the style of music perhaps is a little incongrous with a british social realist drama so before we put music to the final film, we'll carry out some research into the use (or non use) of non-diagetic music (mostly songs) in the openings of british social realist dramas. This will then at least give us some idea whether the music is appropriate on top of our own feelings about it, it might turn we like it because it's more (possibly) happy mood juxtaposes the harsh realities of the boys lives, a technique I'm sure I've seen used in films before. We will see.