Film companies who would commission our film.

We have chosen Disney as a film company we believe would commission our film, The reason for this is because they produce similar 2d animations such as Lilo and stitch and Mickey mouse. which have both been popular with the same age range as our target audience which is 0-4 year olds. These films relate to this age range because of their simple story lines and clever use of animation and primary colours. These films also have a good moral behind them that the children can learn.

Evaluation of our children's film.

As our children's film is aimed more at children at the age of 5 and below, it is very much like winnie the pooh. The similarities are the facts that they are both animations, there are various types of animals, only soft colors are used for backgrounds, characters etc. It's very adventurous, much like winnie the pooh is, and is not a very hard story to follow. Both children's films are 2D and the use of animals that children will instantly recognise will instantly attract their attention.

Both childrens films have happy music at the start as the credits were coming on the screen, which would instantly grab a childs attention, and by having the credits in bright, bold colors (red in our film and yellow in winnie the pooh) will also attract the children's attention because bright colours seem to appeal to them.

However, there are many differences between the two film openings. Winnie the pooh changed the pitch of its background music, depending on which character was shown at that point. For instance, when Eeyore was on the screen, the music slowed down and the pitch of it became deeper. This reflects his sad and depressive nature. Where as in our opening sequence we had the exact same music through out the whole thing.

We introduce all of the characters one by one, as we going along the story, where as the voice over of winnie the pooh introduces them one after the other right at the beginning of the opening sequence.

At the start of winnie the pooh's opening sequence, they have a real life clip of about 1 and half minutes, where as straight away in our opening sequence we go straight into animation.

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Even though all of our characters move about the screen in this sequence, their positions are always the same (always have their arms, legs etc in the same place) where as in winnie the pooh, it has been animated so that their arms legs and mouths etc can move.

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garage band and final cut print screen

Final Cut Express

By using cut express we became more familiar with skills of movie making that can be used in final cut, these skills included importing sound and video, the cutting and trimming of clips, zooming in of clips, adding keyframes and titles, andding movement and effects to titles.

Garage Band

Using Garage band we were able to learn how to import music into our videos. We were able to mix up the different tunes to create the mood we wanted. We learnt how to extend the length of the piece of music we were using.

comments on our childrens film.

1. Camera work- are there enough variety of shots, angles, movement? is it steady?
over the shoulder, long shots mostly. always steady. not enough variety of shots.
2a. How well does the sound work? make comments on digetic and non-digetic sound, sound effects, background/ambient sound. Quality of effectiveness at creating mood.
the sound works well, no variety is shown. the backing track suits the target audience. the speech is quick and can be hard to understand.
2b. What opening title sequence conventions can you identify?
the whole clip tells too much information. Tells the story of the whole adventure, although it contains most of the features of the opening sequence.
3a. Comment on all aspects on mise en scene. how smooth is the animation? use of sfx?
great storyline but animation lets it down. Very jumpy and basic. Long pauses that are inappropriate. Characters are cute but their static nature annoys me a bit, but the background could benefit from more colour.
. b. What target audience do you think this is aimed at? age range and why?
. I think that this would go under the 'U' classification because of it's simple, unaggressive nsture and would appeal to the age range of 2-5 or 7 years old children, any older and they would be unamused by the simplicity of the story.
4.

Transitions from shots was quite jumpy. The pace of the editing is quite slow and lots of still images. Editing needed to be faster to keep kids entertained. More movement from characters would have made it more fluent.
5.

Similar to winnie the pooh, like a story book. Ceebeebies, play house disney.

Feedback on questions of childrens film

3. b) What target audience do you think this is aimed at? age range and why?

I think that this would go under the 'U' classification because of it's simple, unagressive nature and would appear to the age range of 2-5 or 7 year old children, any older and they would be unamused by the simplicity of the story.

childrens film final

childrens film script

narrator: In the tree trunk at the bottom of the garden lived Lily the ladybird.
one morning while lily was fast asleep she was awoken by the rooster. As lily was getting ready for the morning she saw herself in the mirror and said with a fright...
Lily: 'My spots! Where have they gone?'
Narrator: Lily decideds to hunt around the garden for her spots and bumps into ben the bumble bee.
Lily: 'Ben do you know where my spots might be?'
Ben: 'No sorry lily' have you tried asking Bella the butterfly?'
Narrator: and off lily went...
Lily: 'Have you seen my spots Bella?'
Bella: 'No sorry lily have you checked by the sand pit?'
Narrator: as lily walked to the sandpit she came across demi the dragonfly...
Demi: 'Oh lily where have your spots gone?'
Lily: ' i don't know. thats what i came to ask you! Have you seen my spots?'
Demi: 'No sorry lily. Maybe the ants will know'
Narrator: And so lily made her way over to the ants..
Lily: 'Alex have you seen my spots?'
Alex: 'No sorry lily i was too busy collecting food. `have you tried the cabbage patch?'
Narrator: 'And off lily went..'
Lily: 'Hi there sammy have you seen my spots?'
Sammy: 'Yes i have actually, They were in the flower beds on the poppies. Shall i show you the way?'
Lily: 'Oh yes please sammy!'
Narrator: Lily and sammy made their way across the garden to the poppies where they met cassie the caterpiller.'