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.