Emma (Unit 33) - Task Three

Animation 1:

For this animation we chose to use Lego as our format instead of playdough or paper. We chose this because we thought it would give a better effect where the theme of a disaster is concerned. For this animation we had to take roughly 100 pictures so that we could edit them together into one moving animation. We had the idea of our animation being about two girls who are on a camping trip. The animation shows them competing in a boat race until one of the girls jumps off the boat and starts climbing a tower, the theme if disaster comes to a head when the second girl pushes the girl off the tower. The target audience for this would be people who are interested in mysteries, because the characters are girls I think it predominantly speaks to the female audience of 15-18 year olds. For the animation we used green card in the background so that we would be able to edit in a green screen if we needed to. We made sure to shine a light directly onto the animation but set the light at an angle to minimise shadows in the piece. In editing I decided to add some background music to make the animation seem that much more intense.

Animation 2:

For the second animation we wanted to use playdough as our format, this is because the theme was A Happy Event so we thought that because playdough has a lot of brighter colours this would better convey a message of happiness. This particular piece of animation was 40 frames per second which meant we had to take 480 photographs in order to get the full animation. While thinking of our idea for this animation we bounced around different ideas and settled on a birthday party, this, however, quickly changed into our final idea ‘A Few Days On The Pond’. We had 6 characters in the beginning of our animation, two ducks, three frogs and a cat who lazily sat in the background. However, as the animation grew on we wanted to show the life cycle, so we included 3 chicks who hatched and 3 frogs who were also born. The target audience for our animation is children who have already learned about the life cycle - because our version is not scientifically correct - but who are interested in learning about pond life and animals. We used green card in the background of our stop-motion animation so that in editing we could use it as a green-screen to edit on a proper garden to make the animation seem more interesting and 3D. In editing I decided to use nature sounds, specifically that of a duck pond so that the feeling of being on a pond is not lost to the audience, I also added some clips of frog noises to add a more wholesome sound.