Feed back on crit.

We were there first ones to show our animation today. When it was shown i was embarrassed because of it, i feel it is the worst work i have made in media, including year 10 and 11. I think being on bigger screen you can see so many more faults which i would like to correct, for example the titles move around one two shots, having them still will make it better. Also, again, i have said this on so many posting that i don't think there are enough photos and it doesn't flow well at all. We have three more weeks till the deadline, but i don't no how difficult it will be just to add a few more shots on the really jumpy parts of the animation. This would be something i would like to do, but i have to talk to the group and see what they want to do about it all.

Music was not in the crit today and we had sound effect ( which i don't think are staying) which made it look even worse! ha ha. Although like it was mentioned in having music will tie it all together. This is still a major to do.

Other things that came from the crit was to holder the titles for longer. This will be easy to for the opening "Layla's Star" title as we can just add a few seconds onto the frame. I would rather change it now before we add music otherwise it will throw everything out of place. The titles within the frames might be a bit harder for them to hold, but we can try and if it fails we will just have to leave it like that. Also another comment was to make a 30 second opening to a film, we did originally want this in our animation and even filmed it, but there was problem with low light. However we spoke about how we can change this and rather than filming it at night, we could start with the day in the morning to get over the issue of the lighting. If we are going to film the 30 second opening, then we need to think about casting a character, who looks around the same age of our animation girl, location and shots. Over the next couple of days i think we are going to talk about what need doing and try to think of a way that we can have everything done in three weeks time.

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We still haven't done much to our animation. We again had a few problems with computer and things, and we nearly lost it all! But luckily we haven't. As we have our presentation/crit in tomorrow lesson we are going to have to show our animation without music, but hopefully in the week we will eventually get a chance to put some music with it.

Showing our animation tomorrow ,for the crit, I'm not entirely happy were we are at and what it looks like, i still think there a bits we can change and tweak to make it better. Hopefully as well people will give there opinion on it and if any advice is given we can go away and make it better.

Music, music, music ! have to get it done.

Wheres next?

So last week, when i was off, they had a few difficulties with computers, music and things. Which means we are behind where we wanted to be. As we have a double lesson tomorrow morning in hoping we can get it all in order and ready to add music. I know I'm not going to be completely happy because i would still like to add a few clips in between shots to make it flow much better. However if i have time then i may get a chance to add them, all depends when the deadline is.

Once we have our finished product then we will get an audience together and see how the respond to finished thing. It would be great if we could get an younger audience to view it as it is there genre.

So in a few blog time i will add all the audience criticism etc.

Audience response and ways of viewing Laylas star

As i said in the previous post our film will have a very young audience. If Layla's was to be realised i could see it not being a massive film but a film that the cinemas would air on a Saturday morning purely for a younger audience, which would only cost a £1 at cineworld. However advertisement would still be needed and like many other films aimed at younger audiences companies like MacDonald's are perfect to advertise the characters with the happy meal when they get a free toy.

This is an example of the Happy Meal and the route that many film companies choose to advertise films to a lower age group.

Having our film not being a massive Hollywood hit, it allows the film to be enjoyed by different classes in society. It is easy accessibly from all classes to be able to the view the film ,whether this is lower class paying a £1 on a Saturday morning or working class where it may be viewed on Sky or bought on DVD. This is a family film , which is what the cinema used to be there for, for a family day out to watch a film.

Like other animation film that have been massive hits over the last few years there is comical moments that can be more appreciated with an older audience however still having the main ingredients to be primarily enjoyed by the younger audience. Regrettably i don't think we have the characters in our film in order to have a character to aim to the older audience.

Sorry...

Annoy-ily i have had a bit of an accident therefore i am not in for the finishing of the title sequence, which i am gutted about! But im sure that Rebecca and Taranpreet will finish it great. As having a bit of an accident im trying my hardest to complete my blog, i will be adding things for the next day or so and hopefully finish soon. Again im sorry for not getting it all done on time and not being in.

The Audience.

Even if you film has the worlds greatest stars or best storyline is ultimately comes down to the audience to decide whether it is good or not. Moreover that's why when directors start to design/create a new film they set a target audience who they will aim all the advertisement and film too.

For our film we are targeting a very young audience, primary school children, this is because originally the storyline is from a child's book. Also we have a young child in our animation which make younger children relate to it. Having the simple soft colours make its more child friendly. The relationship that the child would have is that are enlightened with the opening of the film, they start to get to know who the main character is and the basic storyline. As our film is such for a young age if we was to advertise we would focus more on images rather than text as like to keep it simple to suit film, this is so when they see the film the can identify "Layla" through the advertisement technique.

Why opening title sequences are so important to the film industry?

http://www.thunderchunky.co.uk/articles/talking-title-sequences-with-the-master-kyle-cooper/

While researching i found an interview with Kyle Cooper who is a title sequence Creator and is very successful. He created film title sequences like Se7en, Spiderman and Fight Club. Linking back to the great Saul Bass, he was Kyle Cooper inspiration.

I really liked what he said about making a good title sequence;
"It makes you thrilled to be in this theatre at this moment, getting ready to see this movie. It makes you glad that you are nowhere else in the world except where you are, getting ready to see something amazing"

So why do we have title sequences?
A title sequence is the method by which cinematic films or television shows present their title and key cast and production members utilizing conceptual visuals and sound. It should not be confused with opening credits, which are generally nothing more than a series of superimposed text.

Over the year the title sequence have become in its own right a piece of art work and almost another film creation within the film. It is the first imagery that the audience watch, it has to grip them, tell them the basic information but at the same time do not make them bored or waiting to long for the film.

In our title sequence we have tried to follow the same sort of line that Catch Me If You Can done, where the story is told with names appearing in each scene.