Rresearch for our film

Costumes

Both Birds will be red, as the colour will come across to the children as rather bright and it will attract them more. It also suggests consistency in the characters, that they are alike.The pink bow in the female birds hair (Honey), will show the difference between male and female in the film. It will also make the the bird look more feminine, that way the children can have a favorite character in the film. Honey will also have long eyelashes to show that she is female. 

Phil (the male bird) has dark eyebrows, and no eye lashes to signify the subtle difference between the two characters. 

Location

The film will be taking place in a Vally, this is a simple location however when children go to a Vally it will remind them of the film. It is also a colour full place to locate a film, which will also be suitable for the target audience, as the film will be classified as  U.

The moose

The Moose are going to be brown, but not too dark and dark this may scare the children, he won't look to scary either. The moose Will be a light brown colour just so it can remind the children of what the moose looks like. 

Sound 

There will be the use of diagetic and non- diagetic sound in our film. However the birds will not be able to talk but we will add bird like noises into the film to make it look more realistic for the children. As well as this we will be having cheerful happy music throughout the sequence to have a bigger impact in the film. 

The sound will be empathetic to match the characters feeling within the sequence, and in some areas the music will be louder then others, and softer then others. 

Where we will be filming: 

Although we are filming in animation, and there is set location, but an area where the film is based. The characters are drawn on, so they are made of paper, and will be moved around on the paper, This means that no wet surroundings will be aloud or else it will not got to plan. 

So all of us as a group have decided that we will be filming in a classroom, that way it's dry and simple, as well as this the computers will not get damaged, and our work will be kept safe. 

Information on Pixar animation

Pixar in an American CGI company in California. It started in 1979, and it was then brought by Disney in 2006. Pixar has eleven fatured films,and it began with Toy Story in 1995. The most recent pixar film is Toy Story 3. It is an constant growing company which has upcoming new films as well such as Monsters Inc, and Cars 2. Both being realesed in 2012.

It won the best animation award in 2001. and overall the compay has made over 6.2 billion dollars, (this number is still increasing).

Pixar Company Logo (1995–present)
Type	Subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company (Formerly public as NASDAQ: PIXR)
Industry	CGI animation Motion pictures Software
Predecessor	Graphics Group (1979-1986)
Founded	1979 (1979) as Graphics Group 1986 (1986) as Pixar
Founder(s)	Ed Catmull Alvy Ray Smith
Headquarters	Emeryville, California, U.S.
Key people	Ed Catmull, President, Walt Disney Animation Studios & Pixar Animation Studios John Lasseter, Chief Creative Officer, Walt Disney Animation Studios & Pixar Animation Studios Jim Morris, General Manager, Pixar Animation Studios Steve Jobs, former CEO of Pixar Animation Studios and member of the Board of Directors at The Walt Disney Company
Products	RenderMan, Marionette
Owner(s)	The Walt Disney Company
Parent	Walt Disney Pictures
Website	http://www.pixar.com/

Monsters inc was the most expensive Pixar film made so far it had a total cost of 115 million dollars in production making. The U.S boxoffice had a 256 million dollars. And world wide box office it made 525 million dollars. It came fourth in the top ten of most expensive animated films ever made.

Then it was Finding Nemo which came 6th in the top ten most expensive films ever made. It costed 94 million dollars to make, and world wide in box office it made 866 million dollars which was higher then Monsters inc.

Increadibles came next which prodution wise costed 92 million dollars to make and world wide in box office it made 631 million dollars.

Toy story 2 was then next in the 8th most expensive film ever made, it costed in production 90 million dollars to make. and in box office it made 486 million dollars. 

Overall Pixar have distributed many amazing animated films and are still going today, linking in with Dinsney. 

Plan for filming

Filming Plan


As our group thinks we will be doing animation for our children's film opening, no one will be acting in the scene but we will all be doing voice overs for the characters. We also think that the voices we do will be in the form of noises instead of speaking to make it more funny for the audience as children are more likely to connect with humour, rather than long winded conversation. We got the idea of doing this from the successful film Wall-E as there is barely any speech in the whole film. 

A screen shot from the film Wall-E. 

Also because we are thinking of doing animation, we will not need any costume but the props we are using are the models and scenery in which we will be using to animate from. Connor Banks will be taking care of the props and scene as he drew them. The place in which we would be filming would be near a computer as we would be using iStop Motion software to capture our animation. We would need permission from the media studies teachers as the technology is expensive. 

Additional research for Children's film - DreamWorks Animation SKG, inc.

DreamWorks Animation SKG, inc.

For our groups Children's film project, we want to go down the route of animation but we were not quite sure which style of animation to do. So we decided to each do research about a particular type of animation, mine being that of which is done by the company DreamWorks Animation SKG, inc. (DWA), their most successful animations being The Shrek series, The Madagascar series and Kung fu Panda. They specialise in CGI films which may be difficult for work in a classroom as the technology they use is worth millions. 

DWA specialise in U films and PG films but mainly U films because they make films brightly coloured and want to appeal to the a big film target audience, children. They are a good company to study therefore, as what they do year in year out is what my group aim to attempt but on a smaller scale. The classifications are important for DWA as they do not want to ruin their image as a family brand. 

Photos from several successful productions from DreamWorks Animation SKG, inc. 

Happy Chapman - Garfield

Background information on the film:

Garfield the movie, which came out in 2004, and it was directed by Peter Hewitt, produced by John Davis, John Kilkenny, Michele Imperato, Brian Manis and Neil Machlis. The film was made in America and was released on June 11th 2004 and made just under 200 million dollars. Although the film made a lot of money, it was received badly and has been given many bad awards such as the rotten tomato award. The film stars Bill Murray, Breckin Meyer, Mac Davis, Anne Murray, Jennifer Love Hewitt and Stephen Tobolowsky who plays the intriguing character of Happy Chapman. 

Happy Chapman's personality in the film is mainly represented through the use of mise-en-scene. The characters body langauge, shows his personality as being rather humerous for the audience ecspecialy the children who watch it. However he also has a sinister side as his face always has sarcastic overtone, this can scare children but it adds to the humour as he can change personality rapid. The use of the micro features in the film are used to show Happy Chapman's lust for success and general insanity through the use of close ups on his face to show how Happy identifies situations.

The character himself has a moral behind him as he doen't like the other charcaters in the film as none of them please him and he also thinks they are below him because he is reasonably wealthy yet he still wants more. The use of body language is used to show Happy Chapman's personality, as rather blunt but funny for children to watch. The film also indicate the importance of family and friendship, as Happy Chapman is a lonely, sour character. 

Happy Chapman also appears as funnier for young children with the way he dresses and acts. The film uses lots of colours in the form of Garfield as he is a bright orange cat contrasting with the rest of the cast to show he is different and the CGI makes the film appeal to younger veiwers and made it look more realistic. 


The film is certificate U as I think it contains no sexual references, no swearing and violence is shown as the only outcome in some cases, none of which is shown. I would agree with this certificate as the language in the film is suitable for the target audience. 

Back To The Future Story Board

Storyboard 


          The task we had to do was to watch a clip from Back to the future and analyse its story storyboard factors such as mise-en-scene, framing, shot types and information such as sound. We were told to do a storyboard as it was practice for the final children's film task so that we knew how to organise our thoughts on the paper. Once we had made notes we put them into the form of a storyboard, drawing the shot types and mise-en-scene, while writing underneath the sound and framing. 
          Connor looked at the mise-en-scene in which he noticed that the main props were household items such as clocks, a toaster, dog food and a television. The clothing was 1980's in fitting with the time period, and the setting was an old mans house which was full of junk, showing the modern life of the time of trying to find new ideas since the boom of television. 
          Adam Mulcahy looked at sound and diegetic sound throughout the first sequence of the scene where the house hold items such as the clocks were ticking, differed in pace to create suspense and confusion. This portrayed the confusion of the old mans character and when the young boy comes and finds that the man is not there, it adds to the mystery of this obscene character. 
          The main shot types which Mel looked at was a pan of a mid angle close up of the house hold items showing that on their own they created a simple scene but the pan then shows that the sheer amount of them compacted into the house just shows the complexity of the characters and the objects in the house. When the guitar goes off at the end of the scene, there is a fast tracking shot of the boy as he flies backwards from the blast of the amplifier. 

Our storyboard of the film Back to the Future, which includes sound, framing, shot types and mise-en-scene. 

Childrens Film Project Idea

One idea I've had for what we could do for our children's film opening, would be based on the popular iphone game, 'Angry Birds'.

I thought about this as I was playing the game on my own phone and was also surprised to find that the handheld game is soon to become a console game for the likes of the Xbox 360 and PS3. This is where I drew my inspiration from.

The film itself would be and animation by using cut out images of the characters on a drawn background. It would be focused around the typical game setting. The green pigs steel the birds eggs and the birds retaliate by sligshotting themselves into the pigs castle. Various types of colourful birds are introduced to create a sense of variety amungst the characters.

The film would be classified as a possible PG. This being that there could be potential referances to war and fighting, which do not create good morals for children to live by. We would have to reinforce the real moral that is to 'stand up to your enimies and for what you belive in'.