2. How does your media product represent particular social groups?

which gender, age, race and class is our product aimed at?

1. In what way does your media product use. develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products? (ie. of film openings)

Does your use of conventions indicate that other opening sequences have influenced your work?
eg. grease.
We were inspired by the way grease goes from animation into live action.
We made the animation look like long road and so the live action could follow on from that.
Unfortunately when creating our piece not realizing that the animation wouldn't go on for as long as we thought, we had to improvise and use ourselves as characters in the animation, this meant that the costumes did not match.
Title font and style - Its not very exciting but its clear, easy to read and flows.
Camera work - we used different camera angles
characters - We had to use Abby to pretend to be a guy.

The Finished Childrens Opening

Thoughts

After creating our children film opening we soon realized that due to improvisation of the live filming, it wasn't as good as we expected it to be. We felt that the live film didn't meet our expectations as we felt after looking at other movies of children film openings, theirs was more engaging and exciting. For example, 'Madagascar', 'Greece', 'High school musical' etc.. However after discussing as a group we realized that although the beginning is important, all openings are different and usually most interesting/exciting part of the film is the middle. In conclusion if we had more time we would have extended the animation and have no live action.

Credit ideas

I think for credit idea's it should link into everything in the opening, it should be quite colourful but not too in your face, and the font should be middle sized. After watching some credit openings, i think that we should have credits over the animation, in this we arnt wasting any time, and the viewer wouldnt be bored by credits.



Toy story shows the idea, the music is very happy also, and it suits the scene perfectly. i think we could use a idea like this, it could be very effective. Even with the very simple font of the credits its still effective, you can see them clearly and it doesnt clash with the background at all.

Mood board

Greece's opening credits is animation so we could use this idea and have our animation as opening credits going into the movie.

Change of plan

Unfortuantely the claymen we created hardened and didn't work very well, so I thought that we could do stopframe animation using paper cut outs. I created backgrounds which Abby and Fiona coloured in. I created little figures where their bodies hands, arms, heads legs and feet could come apart so we could move them. I made several different heads for the characters so we could switch them to express a mood, Abbey and Fiona also coloured these in. unfortunately after Fiona and I had filmed the animation while Abby made the music, we realised that the clip only came to 17 secs. We could probably make that sequence into opening credits and next lesson film a drama to take up the rest of the time.

Credits Ideas

After watching the credits for films such as 'Madagascar', 'A series of unfortunate events', and 'Shrek the third' I've noticed that the producers have made the credits interesting to watch by using animation. Shrek the third and Madagascar had quite upbeat music and the animation was exciting and eye catching for children. The series of unfortunate had quite interesting music, its not very exciting but the animation would grab the childrens attention. I think that animation at the end of credits is clever as children want to watch it because its exciting especially if the movie was good and they didn't want it to finish.



I think we should use bold exciting font, I think the font should be 'SimHi' as its very clear for children to read. I think the colour of the font should be white, something quite bright and simple. We don't have much time but if we did have lots of time I would suggest that we could create an animation for the end credits and have upbeat fun music. As we don't have much time I think we should keep the credits simple, maybe Orange background so that the credits are bright. I think maybe a 'credits:zoom,in' overlade. Here is an example:

However I recon for the real credits we should state our name and last name.