Filming..Hopefully for the last time!!!!

As you know the first footage that we filmed didnt come out right which means we will have to film once again! hopefulyl this time will be the last time we film. It will all be exactly the same as what we filmed first but only this time we are hoping that the tape wont mess up and the film will come out clear and not fuzzy.

The new footage of our film!

On Friday the footage was shot at hannahs cousins house as we used her cousin for our film. All the footage had come out better than the first time we shot it as the lighting was better and brighter and the actual act was good too. Unfortunalety, me n becky tried to upload it today but it wouldnt work. The Mac wouldnt let us upload the footage and plus the film was very pixelised and most of the recording had disapeared. Only a small part at the end was left. Even that was getting very fuzzy and cutting. I think the tape that we used was very old and dodgy. There was a lot of things already on it which may have been the cause of this. This means that we will have to go and film the same footage again on to a new tape. But this will have to be done very quickly as we are running out of time. Dealines around the corner.....we need to get it done!!!!!!

Thinking about the music once again!!!!

Again we are stuck because of the music!!! We were suppose get Kirsty to compose the music for up animation, but she had to compose her own so she got caught up in that. We spoke to Nina about our music and she suggested Ian Elmslie for us as he makes his own music. So, FINALY we will have some composed music to add to our film which means we will be nearly finished. But before this we will have to speak to Ian himself and show him the film ourselves so he can analise and note down what kind of music he will have to compose. We would still like it to be soft and girly, or something twinkly.

How to improve...

we have been discussin ways in which to improve our animation. We have been planning times to sort it out. Hopefully it wont take us that long as we only need to add a few things to it. As you know, we are still searching for music to go with our animation. We still have to speak to Ian about this as he composes his own music and will help us compose ours. We will do this today and then hopefully he will be able to find us a peice of music that would go and play behind our animation of Laylas star. We were also thinking about adding a few more pictures to the animation to make it last abit longer and making the animation flow more. Overall the first thing that we need to concentrate on at the moment is the filming of the little girl at the beginging. Once we get that done we will be able to work on the rest of the animation.

Improving Improving Improving

We are in the middle of improving and adding things to our unfinished, first animated film. We were thinking of adding more pictures in to the film but we're still not entirely sure if we are going to do this because there are other things that are slighty imprtant than this. Such as finding the right music to go with the animation and also filming a very small footage (30 secs) to go at the beggining of the animation. This would help make the sequence alot more sense and add a sense of realism in to it. The music is stil another big issue which we need to sort out. We have to find someonewho can make a peice of music for us very quickly. We can show them the film and once they've seen it for themselves, I'm sure they will be able to compose the perfect music for our animated film production.

The Crit!!!

In mondays lesson I was a bit late so unfortunately I missed showing our film to the class. As i heard from Hannah and Rebacca, our film didnt look too good on big screen. There were alot of changes that we need to make andalot of thinsg to add.

Firts of all we need to go back and add some more pictures to our animation for every scene. As I've said before the I dont think the animation flows too well. There are alot of scenes where the film just jumps and its doesnt look very professional even though I know this is our first go at animation. In some parts, I dont think the story that we are trying to tell is clear enough. But this can be imprved by adding mor pictures. I know we only have three weeks but if we try out hardest we will be able to get all the extra pictures that we went in to it and make it up a to a much better animation. Parts like when Layla cries could do with a few more pictures.

Another problem that needs to be sorted out is the music. Like I mentioned before that last week we did try to look for music but we coudnt get the right kind of track we are looking for. We only have some sounds effects in the film whihc we probably will still keep once we get the music done. These sound alright but they sound a bit random because theres no other sounds in it, and then suddenly theres a tiny bit of sounds. During the nect three weeks this is a very important thing to do because once we have got music for it, the film will make so much more sense.

The other thing that we will have to do is hold the titles for a bit longer. Im not sure if we will be able to reduce the speed of only some omages and keep the rest normal or iff we will have to slow everything down. If we cant hold certain images for longer on the mac, we will have to add that same picture a few more times so it keeps the titles on for longer. If none of this works (which i doubt) then we wil have to leave this the way it is and try and make the other parts extra good!!!!! Something else we were told to do was make a small footage (about 30 secs) to add at the begining of the film. This was our original idea and we did actualy film the footage but there were a few problems with it. One of them was teh lighting. It wa staken in Beckies room but it was filmed at night so the lighting was quite bad and very low. We decided not to put this in to our film. If we do this again we will have to look for a girl who is around the age of Layla which is 6 and also think deeper about the lighting, time, and location of the shooting. These are basically all the thigns that we willl be working on, over the next three weeks. Hopefuly we will have them all sorted and the animation will be worth watching.

last things...

In Thursdays lessons we went through our title seqeunce. First we couldnt find it but thanks to Gerry he found it for us and we checked right the way through it to see if everything made sense and was stil the way we left it. Everything was fine so we started looking for music. We were searching on the itunes on the mac but coudlnt fin anything. So, Ellis told us a website where you can download free music which are not copyrighted. so we went to this website and search for music. We could type in any words that we wanted and music that went with that word was shown to us. Eg we type in twinke and soft music was shown to us which consisted of intrumenst like saxophones and tangerines. We looked for ages but still coudnt find anything so i Geuss we'll have to leave it without music. This is bit of shame because the animation would look alot better with music and sound effects because it would make it easier to understand the story.

...MUSIC!!!!!!

We have been thinking about our music once again as this was not done. We have been thinking baout different types of music that we could use and we have been askingaround to see what other people suggest too. We all think that something soft and twinkly would go. So hopefuly in Thursdays lesson we will be able to go on to the interent and search for music and just use that because we have run out of time to create our own.

Target audience

Our title sequence is a young, dreamy animation. The colours are very girly; pink, purple and other soft colours, the typography used is also very dreamy and something that will atrract young children and most probably girls aged 9-13. The story line was taken from a childrens book called laylas star which i would think to be targeted at ages 4-8. If this was a real film i think it would be eaual to films such as cinderella, snowhite and things like hannah montanna, only if that was animated too. This animation would be atrractive to small girls who are in primary school. I think it would start off around the years of reception when little girls have a very fairytail like imagination and also have there imaginary friends. I think this because the story is fairly realistic in its own way. If instead of the star it was a normal everyday object the film would be perfect for both sex's. I think this star means more to small girls than boys. Young girls see these in other girly films and books and fall in to a different world and have a different imagination.