Pioneers of Animation

Task 2. Film Production - How Did You Do That?

Film Production:

Film Production often begins with the 3 stages of Pre-Production, Production and Post-Production. The key components that make well-planned films which contain key factors such as script-writing, setting and location, assembling of cast and crew members.

Pre-Production:

The first stages of the Pre-Production include various different sources of funding for the creation of the film, such as funding through The National Lottery, private funding, E.I.S, personal funds and advertisements such as product placement. The National Lottery and product placement being the methods most often used, and personal funds being the method the minority of the wealthy resort to. The funding varies on the intentions of the Director and what genre he wants his film to consist of. The funding also varies on whether or not the Director decides to contemplate the thought of a short film.


Production:

The Production process consists of the actual filming deriving from the steady work of the camera crew. Other personnel such as Property Masters, Colourists, Picture Editor, and Gaffer ensure that the production process isn't halted buy any inconvenient circumstances and maintain the consistency needed in the production process.

Post-Production:

The inclusion of the essential editing such as sound and dialogue editing. Visual effects and background sound are added to add substantial effect. Background music is then added to heighten the drama over proceedings as non diegetic is implemented into the film.

Applications of Animation + Examples

Five Different Applications of Animation:

1.) T.V Commercial



2.) Music Video

3.) T.V Series



4.) Movies



5.) Idents

Pixillation Animation + Evaluation

Evaluation:

During the start of the task that Sue had assigned to the class on the brief, myself, Idris, Bilal and Rifat had decided to get in a group. The reason there were 4 members of the group was because we originally had intended to form a group of 3,  but we had sympathised with one of the group members to join our group because he was on his own.

We had written our ideas down on a piece of paper, but some of the ideas that we intended on using were either not good enough or too complex. After a brief moment, I had thought of an idea that would be very simplistic yet quite creative. Now that we had thought of the idea, myself and Rifat went upstairs to gather the equipment needed such as A3 paper, tape, cameras and tri-pods.

Since we were unsure of what exactly to write on the A3 piece of paper, we had just decided to write the date of creation. It took approximately 160 images to create the final pixillation animation and whilst the animation is going on the hand swaps between Idris and Rifat which is why the colour of the hands change at 0:09, 0:12, 0:15, 0:18.

While me and Idris were filming the hand writing pixillation animation, Rifat and Bilal were filming a scene where Bilal was Go-Karting to get to class on time. The disappointment was that the photo's that we had taken of Bilal Go-Karting were not on the SD Card when I was collecting the photo's to edit. I had mentioned this in the YouTube description box on the video above.

CWC Ident - Storyboard

CWC IDENT + EVALUATION

Evaluation:

Whilst being introduced to Task 6 by Sue, she had told the students of the class to get into 2's and form pairs. From then on, Me and Idris had decided to get in pairs and then began to discuss ideas and after a few brief moments, we had come to a conclusion to entertain the idea of implementing a more creative aspect to the other ideas we had been previously contemplating.

Most Proud of:

The aspects of our City of Westminster College indent that were most pleasing was the fact that I had spontaneously thought of the creative and imaginative approach of it which had derived from this inventive yet elementary idea. It had came across as a versatile concept because of the all the various applications that were possible for us to engage with.

Disappointed By:

Whilst Mike had commented extremely positively concerning our idea, Sue had brought to our attention of the missing part of the jigsaw. We were too focused on its creativity that we had forgot to assign the colours of the City of Westminster College logo.

Short Film 'Money' - Risk Assessment

Risk Assessment

Company Name
Production Title	Production Date(s) Filming Wednesday 1st May
Producer Name Ousama , Bilal , Idris , Ashfaq , Omid	Director/ Co Director Names: Ousama and Omid
Date of Risk Assessment Wednesday 24th April	Risk Assessment conducted by  Idris Dahir

ratio: 2.35:1 Kino 

Hazard	Persons who may be harmed	Property which may be damaged	Risk controls already in place	Risk Assessment LOW, MODERATE, HIGH, EXTREME (see table)	Further action required to control risk ***
Traffic	Actors & Crew	Boom Operator / Equiptment	Shooting only when the roads are clear	MODERATE	Shooting on a road with hardly any active vehicles.
Loose walls and pavement	Actors & Crew	Equipment	Checking the walls and pavements for any looseness	HIGH	Finding another street or location with steady walls and pavements.
Slipperiness	Actors & Crew	Equipment	Testing for slipperiness before rehearsals or takes	HIGH	Shooting on days with guaranteed. A dry environment would be essential.
Strong wind & Rainfall	Actors & Crew	Equipment & Location (Depending on the climate)	See if the weather is light and calm for production.	HIGH	Make sure the conditions are great to shoot.