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.

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. 

Idea for Childrens Film.

Analysing Sci Fi Films - Paul

The first shot introduces you to the main character 'Mr Incredible', you know that he must have an important role in the film as the film is named after his last name; 'The Incredibles'. The music is upbeat and fast which complements what's going on in the shot when there's a car chase.

Analysing Fantasy Genre - Monsters Inc

There's a lot going on in the opening credits, they are colourful and fun so the children don't get bored. There's Jazz music in the background which is happy and upbeat, which also appeals to adults. The opening scene sets the theme of the film (Trying to scare children for their screams) and it lays out the storyline. Animation appeals to children and it also makes it less scary because it's not realistic. The use of clothes on the monsters makes them less scary as they seem more human than monsters. The font of the title is important as it's the trademark logo of the film and it's used on franchising and advertising. The film relates to adults as well as children as it's got the theme of 'theres a monster under the bed/in the cupboard' and everyone when they were younger could relate to this.

Prelimary Task & Evaluation

The camera was very easy to use. We didn't really have any problems during filming. In one shot we forgot to take the tripod out of the shot so in future we would make sure there are no additional props. We could've made the conversation flow a bit better as it sounds quite forced. But in general, we found it  quite easy and enjoyable to do.