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