Fine Tuning Ideas

Today is all about generating and fine tuning your ideas, for your stop-motion animation, E4 channel idents. To make sure you are producing the best idea, work through the following:

1. Produce mind maps of at least 3 ideas which might answer the brief you have been given.
   Select your best idea.
2. If relevent produce a series of character sketches, which show how the main characters look from each side.
3. If relevent produce a mood board which illustrates, the 'feel' or 'mood' of the ident that you are going to produce.
4. Write a proposal (see post below called, 'Writing a proposal for your chanel ident')

Produce a storyboard for the animation (the storyboard must also show evidence that you have considered movement, frames per second, soundtrack, sound effect and script if appropriate).
If relevent produce drawings of the set that you intend to make.
All pre production work, needs to be evidensed on your blog, so scan, photograph, post or upload, your pre production work.

*If you are unsure about what pre production material you need to produce, then please discuss your idea with me and I can suggest the most relevent work for your project. Each idea will be different but you do need to produce a substantial amount of material.

Tilt Shift Function on New Stop Motion Software

Still Moving from mustardcuffins on Vimeo.

This video makes brilliant use of the tilt shift effect. The new software that we have for stop motion can do a similar effect. If you feel inspired you could achieve something similar. Why not give it a try!

Tilt Shift is a popular photographic illusion that manipulates the depth of field on long-shots in a manner to fool the brain into thinking it is looking at miniature-scale models.



So you have viewed the video's, now answer these questions:

1. What kind of effect does the 'tilt shift effect' create?
2. What type of camera angles best suite the 'Tilt Shift effect'?
3. If you were to use the 'tilt shift' effect around college, list 3 filming locations which you think would be effective.

HERE'S HOW TO DO IT

Simple Stop Motion

I thought there was quite interesting use of stop motion animation in a recent edition of Channel 4's 'Will My Crash Diet Kill Me.' You might like to check it out. Unfortunately you will have to watch a few ad's first.

Second Years: Writing a Proposal for your Channel Ident

Channel Ident and E4 Sting Proposal

Company Logo

Proposal

Production Company: Think of a memorable name for your production team.

Working title:
Suggestive of content

By line
A subtitle that explains in one sentence the style of the ident, the technical form it will use, the material it will contain, and the time period it will cover.

Synopsis
Write a full description of the animation, from opening shot to close.
What characters are you intending to use?
What are their lines of appeal?
How will it maintain audience attention, how will it inform educate and entertain?
How will it appeal to the E4 demographic?

Personnel
Who are you and what are your strengths?
How are you going to ensure that the production stays on schedule?

Resources
What technical resources will you be using?
What creative materials will you be using in your animation?

Schedule
Give some idea about a realistic schedule. When will pre production be completed?
When will production and post production take place?

Once you have written your proposal upload it to your blog.