Recap on notes and how we incorporated these into our children's film opening sequence.

Before creating our opening sequence, we watched lots of children's film's openings on youtube and at home. For example, we watched the openings of older films such as Matilda and Jungle Book and also more modern films like The Incredibles, Rango and Kung-Fu Panda. From this we took careful notes and discussed what we could incorporate into our children's film opening without breaking the BBFC guidelines of the U rated classification.

We made sure that we included no inappropriate themes such as drugs, alcohol, sex, violence and language that should not be included in a U rated film.

Finished children's film opening piece- 'SUPERDUCK!'

By Harry, Elena, Robert and Andrea

All in all, we are very pleased with the outcome of our final piece. Although, we were confronted with some initial problems, such as minor disagreements in our group about certain shot types, we overcame these and we have produced a successful animated opening sequence for children. 

Composing music

Today for our lesson we have been doing the last of the editing for our opening sequence, composing the background music on garage band and adding titles to the clip.
Andrea Pegasiou
Elena Procopio
Harry Stevens
Robert Lawrence

Editing

The last two lessons (1st and 2nd November) we have been editing and adding titles to our animation piece. This includes using final cut express to piece together our separate video clips with the titles.
We are now ready to move on to adding music and sound effects to our short film using garageband.

Harry Stevens, Andrea Pegasiou, Elena Procopio, Robert Lawrence.

Refilm

Today we decided as a group we were not satisfied with the quality of some of our footage (duck flying scene). Therefore we decided to recreate the setting and refilmed this whole scene. This resulted in us adding an additional (10 seconds)

Setting

Making the plasticine duck and setting

Andrea and Elena are in charge of making the plasticine duck, whilst Harry and Rob are designing the set using pieces of lego to create the grass/pond setting and colouring in a white piece of card.

We then decided against this and bought some card from the college shop. This made our set look more professional.

Planning Super-duck

Initial Brainstorming

• Opening scene of a day in the life of a plasticine animal (duck)
• Duck goes swimming
• Looks under the water 
• Sees something bright red
• The object turns out to be a cape and character becomes super-duck!!
• Water sounds needed (internet)
• Quack sounds needed
• Use a green screen with background setting of a pond

we will use iStopmotion to edit our still images together into a full moving video

Completed storyboard with detailed annotations and shot types. 

Rob is the actor of the duck

Things we need:
plastic duck (Harry)
blue paper
plantation
(to be continued) 

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U rated film - Toy Story (Lasseter, 1995)

• No discriminatory language/behaviour
• No reference to drugs (illegal) or misuse
• swearing/only mild language
• horror sequences should be mild, brief and unlikely to cause undue anxiety to young children. the outcome should be reassuring.
• imitable behaviour = no potentially dangerous behaviour, which children are likely to copy
• infrequent use of very mild language
• nudity - occasional natural nudity
• sex - mild sexual behaviour
• theme - problematic themes must be sensitive 
• Violence - mild violence only - occasional mild threat or menace only

Toy Story includes all of these factors in the film certificate.

PG rated film-Matilda (Devito, 1996)

• Discrimination = Discriminatory language or behaviour is unlikely to be acceptable unless clearly disapproved of in an educational or historical context.
• Drugs = references to illegal drug or drug misuse - or carry an anti-drug message
• Horror = Frightening sequences should not be prolonged or intense. Fantasy settings may be a mitigating factor
• Imitable behaviour = No detail or potentially dangerous which young children are likely to copy. No glamorisation of realistic or easily weapons. 
• Language = very mild language only
• Nudity - natural nudity - no sexual context
• Sex = sexual activity may be implied, but should be discreet and infrequent. Mild sex references + innuendo only
• Theme - where more serious issues are featured nothing in their treatment should come condone unacceptable behaviour
• Violence - moderate violence without detail, may be allowed, if justified by its context (for example, history, comedy or fantasy)

Matilda follows all the guidelines for a PG.


Elena, Harry, Robert and Andrea.