Our Opening sequence to a children's film.
This is our finished project for the opening of our children's film.
Monday, 9 November 2009
Garage Band update
Sian and Yasmin worked on the garage band soundtrack for our opening scene now that most of the editing is done to the clip itself last lesson.
We wanted to music to fit in perfectly with the video clip because otherwise we felt that it will really enhance the film a lot and make it seem more realistic and exciting. Music has a knock-on effect on the viewers emotions so we tried to interpret this into our work and have added a mass of variety. We decided we didn't want the same music running through the entire clip as it may get tedious and quite boring for the viewer so from this we initially determined the mood of each of the clips after doing this we were able to experiment freely till we found a mixture of sounds that worked well together and more importantly enchanced the film clip.
We have almost finished our garage band sound track now and have listened to it whilst our opening scene was playing and it had a suprising brilliant effect because of the tension and emotions it brought with it.
Once the opening credits have been added to our filming we can then add the garage band sound track onto this and convert it into a quicktime video clip. After this our editing will be finished and completed.
We wanted to music to fit in perfectly with the video clip because otherwise we felt that it will really enhance the film a lot and make it seem more realistic and exciting. Music has a knock-on effect on the viewers emotions so we tried to interpret this into our work and have added a mass of variety. We decided we didn't want the same music running through the entire clip as it may get tedious and quite boring for the viewer so from this we initially determined the mood of each of the clips after doing this we were able to experiment freely till we found a mixture of sounds that worked well together and more importantly enchanced the film clip.
We have almost finished our garage band sound track now and have listened to it whilst our opening scene was playing and it had a suprising brilliant effect because of the tension and emotions it brought with it.
Once the opening credits have been added to our filming we can then add the garage band sound track onto this and convert it into a quicktime video clip. After this our editing will be finished and completed.
Credits
My group has had a lot of discusion about the credits as they play a vital key in the opening scene of a film. We looked at other childrens films for inspiration, Shrek had very interesting and exciting opening credits as they used the scene and the props to create the credits themselves in the animation which is more exciting for the viewers and draws instant attention to them when normally they are often ignored by the viewer.
I feel that we can use this as inspiration and interact with the credits more, in the scene when Sian and Yasmin, the two secret agents/superheros are introduced with the initial running scene as they run past the camera can freeze an action shot of them individually and have the credits animated rolling of the person; this will also help to introduce the characters.
The credits can be bold and exciting, maybe colour could be used as well to draw attention but because of the setting of the mainly green background it may be easier to use white font as this will make the credits more bold and easier to read for the viewer. This will make it mroe exciting than the credits just rolling over the screen in a list which would most probably be ignored by the viewer and disregarded. Furthermore the fonts should be very bold and more out of the ordinary and a bit more quirky.
After doing all of which has been mentioned it will add more of a finish to our opening scene and make it look a lot more professional.
I feel that we can use this as inspiration and interact with the credits more, in the scene when Sian and Yasmin, the two secret agents/superheros are introduced with the initial running scene as they run past the camera can freeze an action shot of them individually and have the credits animated rolling of the person; this will also help to introduce the characters.
The credits can be bold and exciting, maybe colour could be used as well to draw attention but because of the setting of the mainly green background it may be easier to use white font as this will make the credits more bold and easier to read for the viewer. This will make it mroe exciting than the credits just rolling over the screen in a list which would most probably be ignored by the viewer and disregarded. Furthermore the fonts should be very bold and more out of the ordinary and a bit more quirky.
After doing all of which has been mentioned it will add more of a finish to our opening scene and make it look a lot more professional.
My Mood Board
Above is a mood board i have created to show the theme of my groups opening to the childrens film, our opening is based on the "goodie" "badie" theme which runs in a lot of childrens films as a theme. It can work along side other genres such as action, science fiction, comedy, family film etc. Not only does it make the film more interesting and exciting but it teaches children about morals and what is right and wrong. My mood board shows images from big childrens hits such as Shrek, Batman and The Incredible Mr Fox which all inspired us to use this theme.
Sunday, 8 November 2009
Update on project
Last week and before half term, my group has been continuing working on our opening to a children's film. However, before halfterm we couldn't continue filing due to the change in weather as it was raining therefore we had to start editing that day and finish the filming on our next lesson. During that period, we started cutting and editing our project to get the best bits and putting them together.
After halfterm, we finished our filming on the first lesson back and then continued editing all of it. Sian, Tania and I finished cutting it all as Yasmin was on another school trip.
Last lesson, Sian and Yasmin worked on garage band for our background music while Tania and Briarly worked on the fades we put inbetween our clips to make it run smoothly.
Tania and Briarly finished adding effects and Sian and Yasmin have the last few seconds to put garage band on.
Next lesson we need to finish garage band and add the credits and we will be finished.
After halfterm, we finished our filming on the first lesson back and then continued editing all of it. Sian, Tania and I finished cutting it all as Yasmin was on another school trip.
Last lesson, Sian and Yasmin worked on garage band for our background music while Tania and Briarly worked on the fades we put inbetween our clips to make it run smoothly.
Tania and Briarly finished adding effects and Sian and Yasmin have the last few seconds to put garage band on.
Next lesson we need to finish garage band and add the credits and we will be finished.