Animatic storyboard explanation

Making the animatic storyboard for the thriller opening, I tried to convey in the drawing the mood that we would attempt to create in the intro itself. I made the drawings slightly messy, and tried not to make them too polished, to give them a more dynamic feel, and give the actual storyboard more of a thriller atmosphere. I didn't go into the small details of the pictures to give them character. I could have taken hours doing them, and put every tiny detail of peoples faces, and their surroundings, into the picture, but I felt that this would take something away from the overall effect of the storyboard. Using photoshop, I created two layers on one of the drawings. One was moved across the other in different parts of the storyboard to give the impression of someone walking across the shot.When drawing the storyboard, I attempted to convey certain thriller conventions in the way that the scenes were composed, trying to give them a mysterious nature, as if something is being hidden from the audience. In the beginning shot, I tried to depict a typical interrogation, however not showing the other character in the scene, and instead showing only the person being interrogated head on. Behind them, I drew in a wall filled with photographs, to give the sense of foreboding that the person in the scene is but one of many similar victims.

During the making of the storyboard, I learnt more about using photoshop, and about using a trackboard, which I both found relatively difficult beforehand.