Credits

On the beggining of a childrens film there are usualy no credits, sometimes the production company name and logo is displayed but not always. On the beggining of childrens film the main characters are introduced. We get to know their names, whta they look like, what they do etc. There may even be no name of the film displayed before main character introduction like in The Incredibles.

Filming

Today we have started our filming and editing part. The filming went well as we have filmed all the scenes we needed. We took many shots of the same scene where Teddy acts differently, such as him being surprised when the ball disappears, so we can then choose the best shots to be put together. When shooting, we tried to use a range of different shots, movements and angles like extreme close up to Teddy's face when he looks surprised or pan when he appears in the woods.

Location Shots

Story line

We don't know what our film will be called at the moment. It will start with a group of friends playing football. Two of the friends will go away and the third one will continue playing by himself, at one stage when he kicks the ball it will disappear while in mid air. The ball will then reappear and come back to him, the boy being surprised looks around to see if anyone saw what happened and decides to check it out, he walks up to the place where the ball disappeared and puts his arm through, his arm also disappears, he takes it out being even more surprised, put his head through and is being sucked in. The boy then arrives in the forest and confused looks around t new surroundings, he then walks around the forest still looking around whilst credits go along. There really is no moral in our film as it is just an opening.

Use of music in children's film

The music in most of the films reflects the action, it is used in the way to make the film interesting to the audience the film is aimed at. In children's films the music is happy and lively, it seems to be "colorful". It makes a feel of happiness to children.

We will use the music to reflect the ongoing action. It will be happy at the beginning as the characters will be playing football and then it we'll use kind of mysterious music to reflect the mysterious disappearance of one of the characters. We will make our own tracks using the GarageBand software.

Mise-en-scene

Lighting

In our opening we will just be using natural lighting, this is because all of our scenes are being film outdoors and there is no need for other lighting.

Props

The only props that we will be using is a football and a football goal. We will be using the football for most of the scene

Makeup

Our actors are male and the natural look will be fine for our film.

Costume

Our actors will just be wearing their ordinary clothes, this is because it  will suit what we are doing as we aren't doing a fantasy. 

Sets

The first set that we will use is on a football pitch, this gives the film an ordinary feel. We then move to a set where there is a woods near by, this gives a mysterious and spooky feel to the scene and we thought that it would fit perfect for when our invisible wall comes into place.

When the ball disappears, we will be on the hard court area in college, we chose to do this because we have to capture two clips and merge them together. We decided not to do this by the woods because the trees will be moving and it won't look as good.

Colour

They colour when filming will be just neutral colours but when in the editing process we may add extra colour to make it stand out and more appealing the to young audience  

Shot list

Children's story board

Brainstorming initial ideas for opening sequence

• Live action 
• Kids playing football
• All of his friends leave for lesson
• He stays and plays with the ball 
• Kicks it and it disappears 
• He then walks into an invisible hole 
• And then either goes into animation or he transforms into another location

short description

this was a groups work from last year which we liked because it was different to a normal animation video it was very creative and different which brought more of an interest with the different ways they brought together the video

Children's film ideas

We will be doing a live action film, and we have watched some past students work as well as more famous ones, overall we came to the decision that doing an animation would be very long process in a limited time period. For the actual content of the film we liked the idea of a small person in a big world, and the idea of being able to do something extraordinary such as time travel. Overall we are still not sure what we will do when it comes to the content of the film.

U childrens film

Children's Film U- Finding Nemo

U certificate criteria

• A "U" certificate film is suitable for anyone above the age 5.
• It usually has a positive moral framework for children to learn from.
• It offers a reassuring counterbalances to any threat
• It is suitable for children to view alone
• "U" certificate films cannot contain bad language, drugs, discrimination or sex or sexual scene's

"Finding Nemo" is an animated film and it meets all the "U" criteria.

"Finding Nemo"  is a film about a little fish called Nemo that has been fished out and taken to Sydney, his father was going through a very hard time and has been to very dangerous places to find son. At one point he gave up but he has been influenced by other animals in the sea that he met on the journey. This film is suitable for young children because it is animal based animation, therefore it is interesting and creative for young children. There is a group of sharks in the film that is trying to be vegetarian but after while they can stop themselves and go back to their natural behaviour at which point they act really scarily, this shows that the producers have counterbalanced the threats.

PG Children's Film

What makes a PG;

- Suitable for 8 years and over
- Parents responsibility to decide if their child is mature enough
- Discrimination only for education purposes
- Drugs are mentioned but not seen, must carry an anti- drugs message
- Horror - short and not intense
- More grown up themes

Shrek
  
They discriminate against the ogre being different, but the film shows that it is okay to be different and everyone should be treated equally,
there is fighting but there is no blood.
there are more grown up themes like love.

Anaylsis of childrens action film

The Incredibles

• It is an interesting as you can work out a simple plot of the film
• The characters are fun and it introduces you to them
• It is using basic camera angles, this makes it easy to follow as the audience are children
• It is colourful so it attracts the eye

Science Fiction Opening

E.T

• It stays quite dark through the scene, this gives it a mysterious feeling
• You can work out the basic story line
• The music helps to build suspense
• It seems quite scary and gives you the feel it will be like that for the whole film
• A variety of camera angles, e.g cuts, this makes the scene seem quite fast 

Fantasy Childrens Film

Aladdin

- Exaplains the main story line

- Shows the main characters

 - It is bright and colourful

- Basic camera angles

- Shows the title

- Shows the moral of the story

- Happy music

- Sets the scene

What we liked about it when we were younger;

- Funny characters, e.g the genie

- Happy ending

- We liked how Aladdin is able to fly on a carpet

- You see things that aren't actually real

Jamanji Cinematography

- Simple close ups
- Lots of panning tracking and zooming
- Over the shoulder shots
- Establishing shots
- Low angle shots
- Point of view

- Close up of he tomb stone when the boy was getting beaten up to make the fight out of our view, we also saw the same tomb stone at the start of the film. They do this because it is  children's film and they can't show the boy being beaten up.

How it meets the conventions of a children's film;

- It shows us the main story line
- Shows the main character
- Gives the title
- Has basic camera angles
- Happy music when it was daylight

Favourite Childrens Film

The Lion King -

- Introduces characters and main character
- Bright and colourful
- Happy music
- Shows the setting
- Basic camera angles
- Title

What we liked about the film when we were younger;

- We liked how the animals could talk
- We liked the setting how it is in the bright sunny Sahara
- The animals looked interesting
- The characters are quite funny
- Simple story line so is easy to follow