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What can our target audience learn from our film.

        We have made a U film, therefore our target audience are children. The main character and his friend are playing football, the friend walks away leaving Teddy playing on his own. Teddy's ball disappears in a mysterious way, he decides to search the place of mystery. Although the football has came back to him, Teddy ended up somewhere in the forest having no idea what happened and how to go back.
         The fact that Teddy disappeared in a mysterious way can teach children that they should always tell somebody where they are so they can take appropriate action to help the person in trouble.

Comparing and contrasting our main character with another from a different U film

Our main character is Teddy, we will be comparing him with Woody from Toy Story.
Similarities;
-They both have child friendly names.
-They are both male(appeal to a young male audience)
-They are both positive.
-They are both inspirational, because Woody always overcomes his problems like Teddy does.
-They are both brave as Teddy goes into the hole and Woody constantly shows bravery.
Differences;
-Teddy is live action where as Woody is animation.
-Woody is a toy and a cowboy, Teddy is a schoolboy and real.
-Woody speaks and Teddy is a silent character.
-Woody has more interaction with characters, Teddy is alone most of the film.

-Woody has more problems to overcome, Teddy just has one big problem.

Evaluation of film process

What we are happy with;
-The story line is good and makes sense to a younger audience, we think this because we can see that it is not too complex and shows clearly what is going on in the film.
-That the music fits with the film well, because in certain parts different sounds fit with different movements.
-We liked how the editing turned out, because there was no room for error and although some of the clips are not perfect we have edited them to fit with other clips.
-We like that we met our deadlines, and were comfortably on time and had enough time to improve the video.
-We liked the locations of where we filmed, it was good because we had two such different backgrounds when the character went through the hole.

What we aren't happy with;
We were not happy with the clips and the way they are filmed because they were not filmed in the exact same position when we edited the hole so it took longer editing and still was not looking very good.
-We didn't like that the credits were on a white background, we choose white to make the film more child friendly but afterwards regretted using the black background.
-We are not happy with the camera quality as it had a smudge on the lens that was not noticeable when filming so by the time we realized it was too late to re-film every clip.

Children's film opening

Photo Shop Credits

Screen shot of our creits which were created in photoshop on the 7th November

Progress 3/11/11

Today we finished the music and it is ready to be imported into the video. More editing of the film has been done, putting all the clips together and making it look as good as possible. 

Progress 2/11/11

Today we basically finished off the music all it needs is a few final touches. We did a little bit of editing but  we had a couple of problems in using the software however, we overcame this and resolved the issue. Also we did more posts on the blog, trying to make it better and stay up to date.

Planning and Research

What is a children's film?

Children's films most commonly come under the U and PG rating, under the age of 12, teens begin to develop to different taste such as 12a

U -

• No special effort is made to cater for n adult audience.
• Positive moral frame work
• Suitable for anyone over the age of 5
• Offers resolved counter balances to any threats
• Suitable for children to view alone
• No bad language or discrimination 
• No drugs or sexual scenes

PG - 

• Suitable for the ages 8 and over
• Parents are responsible to decide if their child is mature enough to watch it
• Discrimination is allowed but only for educational purposes
• Drugs can be mentioned but not shown
• Some scenes of horror but not intense
• More grown up themes

What do we expect from a children's opening?

• A basic outline of what this film is going to be about
• Shows the main location
• Introduces main characters
• Happy music
• Basic camera angles

How does your product fit in with what is already out there?

Our product fits in

Target Audience

The type of people that our film will be aimed at is children from 6 years old to 12 years old. We don't want a really young audience as they may not understand what is going on or the story line but on the other hand, we don't want them to be too old because they may find the film boring.

Harry Potter;

Harry potter is a good example and something that our film can relate to. This is because it is a fantasy and has things going on that don't exist, this is like our film when the main character disappears through an invisible wall.

Script

We decided not to have characters talking in our film. We decided to do this because when watching other peoples previously made films we thought that if the acting isn't very good or convincing then it makes the film not very interesting and doesn't make the film look too good. To overcome this we decided to have sound track playing throughout the open scene, it will be a happy and a catchy tune in hope that it stays in peoples heads so that they remember the film.

Initil Ideas

During our planning, we looked at some childrens films made by previous students, one of the ones that we watched had a boy that turned invisible, this gave us our idea for a sporty childrens film that will hopefully encourage children to become more active. Also we wanted to make an film that would excite kids, we thought we could do this by having something happening that is a fantasy and something that will be interesting so that they enjoy the film.