Short Film - 'Money'

Purposes and Uses of 2 Channel Idents

Over the years, Channel 4 idents have evolved to approach a vaster range of audience with the informal manner of which they characterise their idents. E4 has a reputation of targeting a younger generation of viewers, accentuated by the colour and modernity they implement into their idents, as shown above.  The purposes of the channel idents are to evolve into something fresh and creative, yet able to remind you what channel you're currently viewing.

The same applies with ITV's idents, but in these examples it establishes the seasonal transition of which ITV approaches towards the festive period. This allows them the opportunity to exhibit their creative skills during Christmas.

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