Images for evaluation

Opening to a childrens film

Jamie's Mood Board

credits

As our film is aimed at a younger audience i think the credits should be fun and be incorporated into the opening sequence in a way that is exciting this is because the target audience would lose interest in something that wasnt exciting or colourful. I think that as most of our opening sequence is on a white background we need to add more colour. I think that each individual credit should be in a different colour and be animated to move of the screen in a interesting way. In order to appeal more to children i think that the credits should change case like have the director in upper case then his/her name in lower case.

I think the credits should be spaced apart with varing amounts of space, i think that the font should be fun and look handwritten. We should either have the credits appearing by some one holding pieces of paper with the credits on them and flicking through or by creating them digitally on the mac; i think by using the mac we could also run it with the action.

Heidi's Credit Ideas

I agree with Jamie that the credits need to be bubbly and colourful to keep the young audience interested. I think that the lettering should appear against the white backdrop of every scene. The set is very simplistic so if the credits were colourful then they would stand out well against the white and would liven up the background a bit. The lettering could possibly be in the primary colours, red, blue and yellow as these colours immediately make me think of children. If each letter was alternate in colour, the words would seem more attractive and interesting for the children to read.

Ideally i think the lettering would look best if made out of plasticine as it would carry on the theme of the film. We could use stop motion to move each letter into place. However this would be difficult to create as it is very time consuming and we have limited time to do it. Therefore we will have to resort to existing, computerised fonts. I have researched child-like fonts and I was quite keen on green pillow, penicilPete and Runaway Lies as they are all clear to read and appropriate for a young audience. I was also quite interested with this font...

Heidi's Mood Board

This is the mood board I created to show where we got our ideas and inspiration from for our Children's Film Opening. Once we decided to make our characters out of plasticine and use stop motion to produce our film, we researched existing successful films which used a similar process such as Wallace and Gromit, Chicken Run and Creature Comforts, pictures of these are shown on the mood board. Also on the mood board are pictures of cartoon food characters which we used to help produce our own plasticine characters. Fonts and plasticine samples are shown as well.

Credit Ideas

My idea's for the opening credits of our animated children's film include for the credits to be very colorful and bubbly, bold and easy to read and big and noticeable and for them to appear in the background or on objects throughout the opening sequence.

FONTS
For the fonts, as mentioned before, I would like them to appear as kiddy and simple as possible. Trebuchet MS font is simple and yet effective if different colors are used on the text. Pussycat is another font which I think could be considered to be used as well as Poornut - they are both quite simple to read yet quite bubbly. Finally the font Kristen ITC could be also considered. This font is very easy to read which relates to the young audience and also is very simplistic and attractive to look at for the young viewers.

STRUCTURE
I would like our opening credits to be part of the opening scene where the credits will pop up in the background or on objects shown in the opening sequence. For example, our names could be materializing in the background of a scene using plasticine (which is what out characters are made out of and very colorful). Another example is that our names could be established in the scene where the tomato ketchup is used. The ketchup is going to be squirted out of the bottle by one of the bad food characters jumping on the bottle. When it comes out one of our names will appear on the work top from the outline of the ketchup.

To conclude, the credits (if we are not using on screen fonts) should be made out of plasticine which in itself is very colorful which catches the attention of a young audience, with out names being spelt out throughout the opening sequence in the background of a scene or on objects used in a scene (such as the ketchup).

developing the characters and soundtrack

tuesday 20th october

We began to develop the characters and soundtrack.
Before starting we though about how we could portray the different characters as the protagonist/antagonist. We realised that there would only be limited expressions you could portray with plasticine food and we had to convey a message to children that one group were good and the other was bad. Our characters were simplistic and had one fixed expression because we found it would be far too time consuming and difficult to constantly change their expressions.
we created the soundtrack on garage band we wanted the music to sound exciting and to also complement the film sequence.

time line and storyboard

these are our storyboard and timeline to show the order of our childrens opening sequence.

childrens film project

HOMEWORK

Chicken run
Appeal to kids?
How will our work reveal this?
Funny
· Different accents the chickens have
· Failed attempts
· Stupid man
· Naive – how they can actually escape
· Naive – Mrs Tweedy does not think that they are plotting or organised
Goody/Baddy
· The original chicken leader
· New cockerel who gives them hope
· The Tweedy’s – women wears the trousers and controls the man
· Cockerel turns bad when he can’t actually fly
· Turns good again when he saves the leader and helps them to escape
Excitement
· Will they ever escape
· How many attempts will they have
· When or if they will turn into pies
Happily ever after – they finally escape and live on an island together away from the Tweedy’s
Dilemma
· Realise that the leader can’t get them out so they turn to another
· Realise that the helper was lying
· Realise they are going to be turned into pies
· After the helper had lied they have wasted time which they needed to try and get out or else they will be turned into pies
Rocky – cockerel/helper
Ginger - leader

Our work will reveal all these points:
Funny - the characters will have funny names and different voices
Goody/Baddy - Healthy food Vs Unhealthy food
Excitemnet - who will win the fight for the kids choice
Happily ever after - the Healthy food will concour over the Unhealthy food
Dilema - The Unhealthy food go for more unhealthy products and outnumber the healthy food

Research for our childrens film opening

After looking at these different plasticine models, it has given us ideas for our own characters. We will make our characters very colourful and bold with black and white exaggerated googly eyes. These models we have researched are mainly animals or people but ours will be food characters for example a carrot, a hot dog, an apple etc. They will have legs aswell to keep them up right they will also be smiley and friendly looking.

Practice Storyboard

We watched the Back to the Future opening sequence clip. Each person in our group analysed a different aspect of the opening sequence to the film. We analysed the camera shots, character setting and costume and sound effects. After watching the clip we put our ideas together and created a storyboard which is shown above.

Initial Ideas for Childrens Film Opening

We are planning to use animation for our childrens film opening. We will use plasticine to create our characters who will be food brought to life. There will be the healthy food characters and the fast food characters bringing goodies and baddies to the scene which is an important convention when creating a childrens film. We will use our film to send out a message to children to teach them how important it is to eat healthily. We will use a narrator who will be explaining the story in a clear and entertaining way.

The location for our scenes are still to be decided.

Preliminary Task

Preliminary Task

We are carrying out the preliminary task to prepare ourselves for the first piece of coursework which will be shooting the opening scene of a childrens film. In this task it gives us the opportunity to experiment with different camera shots and angles and prepares us for using the video cameras when it comes to our coursework.

Location: Girls toilets in the C-Block.
Actresses: Heidi and Liberty

Script
(Shot-reverse-shot used during conversation)
L: I've been trying to find you everywhere, theres something you've gotta know! (Long shot)
H: Ahh sorry my phones on silent, I keep missing your calls. Why whats happened? (Mid shot)
L: Oh my god you should of seen it. Louise was like attacking Chris in the canteen. (Over the shoulder shot)
H: What the hell, why? (Over the shoulder shot)
L: Turns out Louise has been cheating on Chris this whole time! (Over the shoulder shot)
H: (Gasps in shock) I knew it! So why was SHE attacking him? (Close up)
L: Because she's mental. She literally hit him and scratched him begging him to take her back. (Mid shot)
H: (Gasps in shock) What is wrong with that girl? (Low angle)
THE END

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