Sunday, 19 June 2011

Evaluation

Animation Evaluation
When making my animation the things that I am pleased about is working in a team and the content of my animation, I am pleased about the outcome of the video because I thought it was going to 
be impossible to make but because I worked in my team of me and Amir it worked out.

When filming my animation I thought that it was going to be long to film and then edit because we was familiar with stop motion but we had good experiences with using it and bad experiences but this one was new for us because we decided to use clay and object animation together. But when we started to edit it, it started to come together visually because we played music throughout and putting music in it made the story come to life more.

The aspect I’m most pleased about is receiving my feedback and also making my animation reflect E4 idents. I think that receiving my feedback made me realise all that hard work paid off. I think that my ident reflected E4 because my ident was fun and young which is what E4 is all about.
The positive feedback that I got was that my ident was fun and crazy. They liked how I used a mannequin to dance and the dance moves it did especially when the mannequin did the moon walk, also they liked when the mannequin vomited and the E4 sign came up. The positive feedback made feel good because people seemed to like it.

The part of the production that I was not happy about was the fact that in the final you could see that our background was really blue in some of the scenes and I thought that the music didn’t blend with each other well it felt like it was skipping tracks.

I think to make our ident better we could have stuck down our blue screen instead of holding because then you may not have seen the blue in the final I also think that we could have blended the music better by editing it in a music editing software.

Thursday, 14 April 2011

Proposal

Production Company: Remir
Title: Lets Dance!!
By Line:

I have decided to mix clay animation and object animation together; I will use a mannequin and clay to make my channel 4 ident. The time period will be between 30 and 60 seconds.

Synopsis
My idea I have decided to do is about a sketch mannequin that knows how to dance and it dances to different types of music. My ident will start of with the mannequin walking on the set introducing him self by waving in the camera.  My mannequin then realizes he can moves his arms and starts to experiment and then he does the hand wave and then he goes into a ballerina and does a piluette, my mannequin then leaps of the set and comes back into the set moon walking. The mannequin then realizes it cannot move to it full potential because it is stuck to its podium it the rockets of its podium and kicks it out of the set and then starts to break dance he starts to sweat and feels sick and then vomits purple which we use clay to my the sweat and the vomit, the vomit then covers the screen and the e4 sign comes up. When the mannequin starts to dance the different genres we use different music from Michael Jackson billie jean.
I think that my ident will appeal to it e4 audience because its fun uses music that everyone is familiar with and it is comical which e4 represents. I also think it educate by showing people you can achieve to do something if you put your mind to it and try.  I think it will entertain my audience because you hardly see mannequin that can dance.

Personnel
My production team will consist of just Amir Manipon, I have chosen Amir to be apart of my production team because he is a creative person who is a good drawer and has got good editing skills, I will ensure our production in on schedule by making sure we come to every lesson and being on top of our pre production and production work.

Resources
For my ident I will need to use just a web cam camera to shoot my ident with and also a computer. I will need theses things because it will make it easier to shoot with because the props that I will be using will be small and it will be easier to place the webcam in different places than if we was to use a normal camera. I also chose to use a webcam because it is less work we would of had to use an extra person to hold the camera in place whereas with the webcam we can stick it to the computer with blue tack.

For my ident I will use a blue card for the background, I have decided to use this colour because I can use it as a blue screen and drop a different background in when I am editing it. Which will make my ident look more professional.  I am also using plastercine for the sweating and vomiting effect. I have decided to use these materials because they are easy to create shapes and you can make them look realistic.

Schedule
This is my schedule so I can keep on top of my production and so I know what I am doing or meant to have done.

Pre-production
Start date
Research
9th – 30th September
Plan production
7th – 28th October
production

Hire out equipment
4th – 11th November
filming
18th  November  – 13th  January
Post production

Upload footage onto final cut pro

Edit

Final cut

Evaluate