Stills from Final Cut/Garageband

Target age group, Learning objectives and what the children would enjoy about the film

Our target age group would be 1-7 years old. The film would be a U. The learning objectives are about how things change through life, from baby to adult. The children will see something which happens every day in life, and learn it in a fun, colourful, easy-to-understand way. Adapting on the catapilla idea we were going to have for example, a chicken egg, to a chick, to a full grown chicken. Showing the changes and development all living things go through in life. The children would enjoy the film as the film is about young people, who they can relate to and then the actors (who are children themselves) would be able to speak in a child-like way, in a language that children can understand easily and therefore relate to themselves. Freddie and Rosie is also good role models for the children as they are polite, happy and confident children. They would also enjoy the colourful animation and big bubbly writing, which keeps them hooked. As young children like bright, primary colours. The music is also happy and upbeat which young children would like and enjoy to hear.

Compare/Contrast to similar film.

We got our ideas from a TV programme called 'Charlie and Lola'. We adapted our ideas to turn it into an opening sequence that could then be carried on in to a film. In Charlie and Lola, the little boy (Charlie) asks his older sister (Lola) about things he wants to find out about. In our opening sequence with Rosie and Freddie (the brother and sister), we get the little boy (Freddie) to ask something that he doesn't know to his sister (Rosie), but we then leave it almost on a cliffhanger (as the cocoon doesn't hatch) which then leaves the story open for more to be revealed. 

Final Video

What we're happy with:

We feel that the music fitted the video quite well. It's upbeat and makes you feel happy.

The voice over and music were well in sync, and we didn't have to do much editing to achieve this. We are happy with the opening and closing credits as they are colourful and attractive.

What we're not happy with: 

We weren't happy with the quality of the drawings (of characters and of backgrounds) If this was done to a higher standard, then the outcome would've been better. Also, during the voice overs, you can hear background noises, if we were to do it again we would make sure we done it in a silent location. There were also shadows in the shots.

Props - for childrens film 11

For our film we decided to do animation. For animation we needed to use many pictures to put the film together. We all hand drew the pictures. We had to draw different sceneries. We drew several 'Freddie and Rosies' with different hand movements to make it look right when the characters waved and spoke. We also hand drew all the letters for the credits. We used the colour scheme of; red, green, yellow and orange.  This theme ran throughout our film. The props are Letters, Backgrounds (tree, grass, flowers, log and 'zzz'), 'Freddie' and 'Rosie', flowers,  a catterpilla, butterflies. 

Understanding of a children's film

A children's film must have a target audience of a child. There should not be any real effort to make the film suitable for any other age group and may or may not have children in the actual film. A key example of a children's film would be The Lion King as it is directly aimed at children with no real effort to make it appeal to any other audience rather than a child. The most common sorts of genres used for children's films are things like adventure films because of how much they appeal to a child because when you are that age you're always thinking about adventures. The genre adventure is also good to be used for a children's film because of the way in which you can always have a moral to the story which is a key thing to have in a children's film. The type of characters which should be in a children's film must be friendly acting and looking (unless they are supposed to be 'baddies', however, even then they should not be too scary looking) 

Big cuddly characters are also good because it is comfort for the younger children and it softens the scary characters. 

Idea for Childrens Film.