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.