Credits Idea

After watching a few examples of both adult filming and childrens filming credits i've noticed that the appearence of them are very different from each other. The childrens ending credits are still made to amuse them therefore they are, in the aladdin example, orange and in a fancy font. I think that we should try and keep them simple as we have very little time left to both film and make credits. I believe we should use a fun font but nothing too small or large and have a unisex colour for example orange or yellow.
It would have been nice to add music to the background but only having 1.5 hours left, i dont think we will have enough time for it. Also, i think that pictures would have been good to add in aswell because i've noticed that when you go to the cinema if there is pictures at the end people stay a little longer to watch them.
To make it look more appealing to people i think we should try and have them fade into the next scene which will be just a plain background but it will add effect.

The making of the characters

This is fiona and eloise making the charecters for our childrens opening scene! we decided to take pictures of the making of the people to see how they got made.

Storyboad's and Timelines of the opening scene

We did a storyboard to allow us to plan ahead of what we are going to have in the scene, also we did a time line to show us the exact timing of our scenes and to have everything planned and sorted so we have a smooth time filming the opening.

Research for the animated childrens film.

When i watch the start of this clip i can instantly tell its a childrens film, the bright colours and animation, and the charecters soon start to show its a childrens film, we can apply this to our opening, by establishing the charecters at the begginning, so the people watching can instantly create a relationship with the charecters. The bright colours are another thing we can apply to our opening, bright colours are very entertaining for young children, and also it gives it a happy feel to the film.
Also another good thing about this film, it doesnt seem like a typical childrens film, we can tell that Lilo the girl in the clip is a diffrent girl, and sometimes children can relate to that situation, we may be able to apply this very modern twist to our opening.

Animation research on Shrek trailer

Immediately when watching this trailer I can tell that children will be drawn in by the mysterious opening to this clip, the ship followed by the hooded figure on the horse. Next the scene follows onto seeing donkey then shrek, immediately children will recognise their favourite characters from the previous two films.First seeing shrek and donkey the trailer introduces them with a funny clip followed by catchy fun music. We are going to take these ideas into account, the establishing music, the bright colours and humour.

Research for Animated Childrens Film

Here i looked at an animated series to get an idea of how to create the right atmosphere and look on our characters in our two minute opening scene which we will be producing as an AS level piece.
I noticed that Mr Beans facial expression was tied in with his movements as well as his emotions.
Looking previously at other animations its shown me how different they can be but still give across the same messages. For example the Klaymen piece shows emotions through body language and the tones of voices however you can also use facial expressions and movement.

Back to the Future Storyboard Practice.

Together we watched the opening scene to back to the future but individually we focused on different effects that made up the film. Abby looked at the various camera angles, Eloise looked at the characters positioning and Fiona looked at the music types within the five minute clip. After taking notes on these seperate effects we combinded them together to create our storyboard.
We also wrote various pieces of extra information underneath the pictures to add to the effect of the opening scene.

Initial Ideas

In our childrens opening, we are going to be using animation, the characters will be created using plastacine whereas the background will be made using differenet drawings and props will again be plasticine.
Our characters will be contrasting between both looks and personality. They will give the message of the common phrase "dont judge a book by its cover."
A breif description of our opening scene is how a wealthy guy comes into a small, down to earth town from a far and meets to very different girls. One being completely gorgeous yet so horrible and the other being less fortunate in looks but has a gorgeous personality. By the end of our two minutes filming the idea of him falling in love with the less fortunte girl is unlikely however by the end of the movie it happens :)



Researching a various amount of videos using plasticine we noticed that looking at this particualar video, we can identify that we can create a certain attitude in a character through body language and not just in facial expressions. This is an amuteur video by Knox's Klaymen.

Preliminary Task