shot list/location planning

we will film the first scene in a classroom and the rest in the green room. the rest will be added later on in editing

script

as titles finish the protagonist is sitting in class, she yawns and falls asleep. the camera zooms in to her face and fades out.
the next shot shows the protagonist in different clothes happily skipping through a space town. reaction shot of space girl hearing a strange noise (alarm) and then looking shocked and pointing. we then see both antagonists running away(towards the camera) which then behind them is space girl. cuts to side on view of space girl pulling pulling out her gun/wand
space girl: "stop in the name of space girl!" *space girl points gun/wand at villains*
cuts to villain 2 turning around as villain 1 continues running. villain 2 is frozen and space girl approaches him/it.
shot reverse shot of space girl and villain 2 talking
space girl: "you can never escape from space girl"
villain 2: "you will never stop the space gators"

cuts to close up of villain 1: "you'll never catch me, mwahahaha"

FINISH.

Childrens Film Diary

Lesson 1: This lesson Elliot and Erin created the opening titles to our film. Including Images and Text saying who stars in it and who produces it. Kiefer and Alice Created the sound track and sound effects for what we need to use in the film.  

Lesson 2: Kiefer and Alice created the two antagonist puppets while Grace and Elliot film the first scene when 'space girl' falls asleep in her lesson. We created the puppets using materials we brought in. 

Lesson 3: all five of us, after getting the camera and tripod, went to the green room and finished our filming. once we had finished we returned to our computer and uploaded our footage. we then began to edit.

Lesson 4: We updated the work we needed to do on the blog, we also continued to edit the first scene and the opening titles of the sequence. We also tried to use the Chroma Key too get rid of the green screen behind the live action but had trouble and we will continue next lesson.

Lesson 5: We completed the work for the blog and continued to edit the sequence.

Lesson 6: as this was our last lesson on this project we spent out time finishing the editing and our blog. we all done a bit of editing but the majority was done by grace and elliot while kiefer and alice done the music and the blog

Seeing as all the side characters in our film are puppets, we looked into how to make one that would be cheap, easy and good for use in a short film. We found a youtube channel under the name of IndyMogul that show lots of cheap stuff to make for use in indie films. We will probably edit this puppet design for use with the materials we have, and the limited time we have, but this is a good start.

We did a spider diagram for the storyboard.

Own Ideas

Live Action:

-Interactive

-Green Screen

Animated:

-Puppets

-Plaster-scene

-2D Animation

We decided to choose a mix between 2D animation, and live action film after watching this trailer from the film "Space Jam". We thought it was fitting, due to the fact that it's a kids film, and it's age rating is PG. We wanted to do a mix between 2D and live action because our group couldn't decide on doing either 2D or live action, so we mixed the two.

Some ideas we came up with for things to incorporate into our film:
- Use of puppets
- Use of green screens
- Live action
- Play-doh
- 2D Animation

Some ideas we came up for Story Lines were:
- Super hero girl who lands on a foreign planet / weird world with aliens and lasers.
- (Animated) Speaking pig finds human friends and then switch lives "A Twisted Tail" (Bud-dum-tish)
- A person on a computer finds a website were a character (animated), comes to life and sucks the child into the computer. (Willingly)
- Small child meets a talking dog with magical powers and goes on magical adventures to save their tree house (Their house).

The twisted tail



Inspired the computer story



This one also inspired a twisted tail

PG - Criteria

- Suitable for 8 and over
- It's parents responsibility to decide whether the child is mature enough to watch the film
- There may be discrimination but only for educational purposes
- Drugs may be mentioned but not seen and must carry an anti drug message
- May contain horror but only in short scenes that are resolved quickly
- Generally more grown up themes






Grown up themes: love and relationships
Humor is more adult and some children will not understand.
Children under the age of 8 will not be able too follow the story-line with out and adult because it is more complicated.

U Rating

U - Universal
- Must be suitable for ages 5 and up
- Must have a positive moral
- Must be suitable for children to watch alone
- Balances out threats with reassuring nice things (E.g. Rainbows and stars)
- No Drugs, Discrimination, Extreme Violence or Cursing
- No sex or sexual references

Why Toy Story 3 meet the criteria:
It meets the criteria because it doesn't have any scenes of extreme threats that weren't overcome by Woody and his friends. There's no sexual or drug references throughout the entire film, and the plot line isn't too complicated for children to follow. It also gives the positive moral of friendship and sharing.

Analysis to the opening of Incredibles

The animation we chose was incredibles, right from the start we're introduced to each character and thrown right into the story line by the car chase.  The "Mise En Scene" in the opening presents the costumes which in turn, introduces us to the genre of the film. This is because the costumes used are very "Super Hero" like (E.g. Spandex and Logos). The lighting in the film is natural, despite being animated on the computer, and also the editing where shots such as; resuming shots, dramatic close-ups, long shots and cuts are used to express the genre and explain the story. It explains the story by cutting from Mr Incredible and the car chase to give a sense of the timeline between the two. The music in the intro is very steady, it keeps fast paced until Mr Incredible kicks in.

Sci-Fi Analysis

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the opening scene for E.T fits the expectations of the sci-fi genre almost perfectly. it starts with an establishing shot setting the location in a large forest, the sound was non-diegtic background music that was slow paced and quiet but when the camera pans round to show a U.F.O the music becomes louder and more dramatic. there is then a POV shot showing an alien looking hand this makes the audience aware that he is not human.

Comparing the differences Wall-e and The chronicles of Narnia

Firstly the differences between the science fiction clip; Wall-e, and the adventure film; Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian are how one is set in the past, and the other is set in the future. Wall-e is a movie about a love story between two robots, where as Narnia is a story about a group of friends who stumble upon a hidden world, where they have to save the people of Narnia. Wall-e is presented in animation (CGI form), and the Chronicles of Narnia is a live action film, with CGI special effects (E.g. Animals and Creatures).

Fantasy Genre

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Aladdin is in the fantasy genre, we can tell because in the opening 5 minutes shows the use of  magic carpets a talking monkey and other unrealistic events.  the use of sound in the opening scene fits the location of being in a middle eastern desert and the lyrics links into what the film is about, e.g "hop a carpet and fly". the location is set straight away showing sand dunes and a desert snake which creates a spooky atmosphere and the fact that it is set in the night adds to this. the lighting is dark and gloomy (except the treasure) until the protagonist, aladdin, appears and then it brightens up.



in a fantasy we would expect it to have an unrealistic plot. we would expect the use of bright music and bright colours as it is a children's film. it would also be expected to use quite a few sound effects to provide sound for the impossible events. usually the setting and clothes used in a fantasy would be unfamiliar and over the top. until recently most fantasy films where animated because the special effects weren't good enough to create the action wanted e.g a flying carpet.

Jumanji opening

Sound - Starts with spooky tension music to set the scene as well as the animal noises such as birds and wolves. When burying the game diegetic drums start to play giving suspense to the audience. There is also dramatic thunder adding to the tension. When the jungle scene finishes the music is quickly turned cheerful to fit the scene. Later on the music increases in tempo when some action is put in.

Toy Story opening

The film opens with still shots to introduce the story and characters. The happy music and bright colours suggest a happy environment. Meanwhile the titles are scrolling in plain white to not distract us from the main bit of the film due to the type of the target audience. Lastly at the end of the opening we are finally introduced to the problem, 'The party's today!'