Storyboard

These are the picture's of our final storyboard, after a change in idea of what should happen in our sequence, we decided that the story will go as follows. Kyle, Benny, Lucy, Spud and Mitch, the friendly dinosaurs are playing a game of dares. Kyle is dared by benny to go knock on Old man Boris' rock, who is a nasty, grumpy old dinosaur, and then run, the story then continues to Boris gradually becoming nice and kind due to the young dinosaur's influence.

This is our storyboard:

Soundtrack Sketch

This is our soundtrack sketch for our children's film project. We experimented with many different sequences and decided that our sequence had a more country feel to it because of the bright colours and cheerful dinosaurs. We feel that this type of music will also appeal to our target audience of young children because it is upbeat, light hearted and easy to listen to.

Pictures Of Rachel's amazing dinosaur plasticine models

 Kyle V2

 Kyle V1 Lucy The whole group Bruno

 Mitch

 Spud

 Titch

 Benny

Some of these characters may not be used in the final product, most were created just as examples of the dinosaurs which could be made.

Plasticine

This is a VERY badly put together stop-frame of how I created one of the plasticine model dinosaurs to be used in our opening sequence. It was about 1 o'clock in the morning and I couldn't find the tripod... please excuse the jumpy screen, it's me picking up the camera and taking a photo, moving the model, picking up the camera again, you get the picture.

Homework - Analysis of a Memorable Film Character

Toy Story - Buzz Lightyear

What makes Buzz Lightyear so memorable is that he is a hero. He is smooth, he is cool and he is cunning. All these attributes make one of most memorable children's film characters of all time. An example of this could be: 'Woody', from Toy Story; he probably appears more often than Buzz. However, Buzz's character is a lot more suave; therefore he is 'the one they talk about' and of course is, more memorable. Buzz Lightyear has now become somewhat of an icon and millions of merchandise have been sold all over the world.

The first ever shot of Buzz Lightyear, 'surprisingly', is a low angle shot. Probably to portray his character as being superior in some sort of way. There is also some music to go along with his entrance. They introduce his character by showing that he is a crowd pleaser, egotistic, and impressive; when he 'flies' and when he is showing off his gadgets. Another opening sequence convention is that they draw the audience in by making it intresting and action packed at the start.   

Title Sequence and Introduction of Main Character

The video here is the title sequence and introduction of the main character in the 1973 Disney film 'Robin Hood'.

The opening sequence is of a story book, in which the characters move as the titles of the actors that voice them are shown underneath. This is paired with lighthearted music and sets a calm relaxed feel suitable for any age. The colours of the characters clothes are bright, this attracts the target viewer; children of all ages.
   At 3.47mins we are first inroducted to robin, by Alan-a-Dale, the minstrel rooster. The song he plays continutes the laid back feel of the title sequence and puts the viewer in a relaxed mood. Robin is just having fun with his best friend. This portrail of his character makes him very likable and he is instantly established as the 'good guy' of the film.
   Although this film is an animated cartoon, the mise-en-scene can be easily identified as light-hearted and calm. The lighting looks the natural light that would pour through the trees on a bright sunny day. The costumes are appropriate to the time period that the legend of Robin Hood was set in. For many children, Robin Hood is a familiar character as they may of heard stories before, his clothing makes him instantly recognisable as the character they may of heard of in stories. If they haven't, then his introduction reflects the Robin of legends, a likable hero that stole from the rich and gave to the poor.

   I find this opening a good inspiration for the genre of childrens film that I would like to produce, I hope my group thinks so too. It sets a calm relaxed mood that instantly attracts the target viewer and establishes the position of main characters in a way that is easily understand able and fun to watch.

Initial Ideas for our Children's Film

• We have decided to use plasticine models for our children's film. 
• We have also decided to use a positive moral frame work to achieve our target audience of children under the U classification. 
• Our first idea is to use plasticine models to make a series of dinosaurs which will include one dinosaur called Kyle, who is a bully, but deep down he only bullies people to impress others. He goes through a short journey of self realisation with a little help from Kevin. Kevin is the second main character in our film. He helps Kyle not to bully people and tells him how people should interact with each other nicely. 
• Obviously our aim is to make the plot and moral of the film clear within the opening sequence of our film.
• We intend to include various opening scene conventions such as: production company title/title of film; credits (introducing of director, actors etc); introducing characters/relationship between characters (Kevin and Kyle), storyline and setting (the village they live in); theme song/sound track (happy music made on garage band); hook in the viewer (a enjoyable opening sequence to make audience watch the rest of the film); mise en scene/lighting and colouring (bright and happy colours like monsters inc that we researched and analysed)    
• The way we intend to make the opening sequence is by using the program istop motion.