Animation Feedback

1.) What do you think the message of our Animation is ? I think that the message of the animation is the dreams of the children.

2.) What do you think is the best bit of the Animation ? The best bit of the animation is where the dreams float up and create the logo. 

3.) What would you improve if you could? If I was to improve the animation I would just add more colour to it so that its more interesting for the younger children. 

4.) Would you like to see this on TV. Yes, I think that this would be a great powerful advert.


1.) What do you think the message of our Animation is ? The message of this animation is children dreaming of a last wish they would like. 

2.) What do you think is the best bit of the Animation ? The best bit of the animation would be when the children all walked through the door to see their dreams. 

3.) What would you improve if you could? I would improve how the animation ended with the music, I would have faded the music better. 

4.) Would you like to see this on TV. Yes, I would love to see this on TV, with some good editing the animation has potential. 

1.) What do you think the message of our Animation is ? The message of this animation I think is helping children with their last wish. 

2.) What do you think is the best bit of the Animation ? The best bit would be the dream of the castle and how detailed it was. 

3.) What would you improve if you could? I don't think there is anything I would improve as I feel the animation has been done really well. 

4.) Would you like to see this on TV. I would love to see this on TV this is so interactive and really shows the meaning of the charity. 

What Is A Documentary

A Documentary film is a non fictional motion picture intended to document some aspect of reality, primarily for the purpose of instruction or maintaining a historical record.



A documentary example would be the Act of Killing where it was directed by Joshua Oppenheimer. This documentary was filmed over several years where they expose the horrifying mass executions in Indonisia of communists. They documented the people who were involved in the killings and how they feel about it now. They actually re-enacted it all and by the end they felt pity for the people they had killed and struggled.


Documentaries can be made into short ones like the ones we are doing for this unit. You start with a topic and develop what you want the end result to be. Our documentary will be up to 5minuets long and we will then make sure that the footage is the best quality as possible and makes sense.

Team Meeting Minutes

In our team meeting we discussed who would do which roles and how our Animation would be made.

We started talking about who would be in charge of what roles so we decided that we would put Luke in charge of the design and drawing because we felt that by doing that we would be more of a productive team.

We then decided that by me doing the admin side it would help to make sure that we got all the information that was needed in order to make the whole animation unit a success.

Luke was to start with the story boards and working out what we thought would work best and the best way to do it. We decided that the best way to do our animation would be drawn animation where you could find the best way to put the message across.
We then discussed the best way to film the animation and how we would use the camera's to collect the images. We decided that we would use a clamp to hold the camera above the drawings, this would help show the whole area of the drawings.

With the paper work I was doing, I made sure that I had used the templates provided so that I could develop the paper work so it relates with the Animation and helps us to get the best possible grade.

Final Proposal

To: Ms Moore
From: Olivia Griffiths, Tom Madkins & Kieran McWilliam
Date: 20th April 2015
Subject: Proposal

Proposed Research Topic:
I am proposing my idea of a documentary based on sixth form life, this will show three students and watch how they act around school, they will also answer questions regarding their daily activities and what they find themselves doing on the weekend.


Purpose:
From this documentary we aim to show this to students who are coming into the school so that they can see what the sixth form at RWS is about. We want them to see it from different point of views and see that as long as you work hard you can still go out and have fun.




Background:
The background of this documentary was looking into what the sixth form at RWS is about and we wanted to show prospective students the true meaning of it by having a short documentary taking all the skills and friendships that they make at school and showing that they still are able to enjoy themselves at the same time.



Scope: 
For this documentary we are investing 3months of our time in to it, by firstly researching the best people for the documentary and who would portray the best side of the school. We are then going to film for a few weeks making sure that we have the best footage possible for the documentary. After that we will then take all the footage to production and put it together editing the crutial bits.

Production Schedule

Crew Roles

Director: Olivia Griffiths  

Definition: the director is the person that organises everything so that everything is in the right place at the right time and is in charge of everything that is happening during the production of the filming.   


Producer: Luke Biley

Definition: the producer is second in charge during the filming as he as the producer has to make sure that everything is happening at the right time just like the director he follows what he does but has less control over what everything that happens. his (the producer) main priorities is to make sure that the filming is happening correctly and everything is in place.     


Director of Photography (D.P.) Luke Biley

Definition: as the director of photography every shot is taken as a picture has to be taken while the camera is still, making sure that the same lighting is being used in every image so that with the final edit looks good and has consistent lighting. 


Editor: Olivia 
Griffiths

Definition: as an editor you are in charge of the editing when editing the main thing you need to do is to cut and crop together bits of film to make a final piece that looks good and professional. 



Camera Operator: Luke Biley

The camera operator the camera operators are in charge of the grips of the cameras they make sure the camera does not shake when filming.   



Minor Roles 
Assistant Camera (A.C.): Olivia Griffiths 


definition the assistant camera helps the camera operator when filiming this could be helping with some extra grip or making sure the lighting for the project is good at all times anything to help the camera operator.

 
Assistant Director : Olivia Griffiths  


The assistant directors job is to complete any smaller jobs the director might want to do this is to make there job a bit more easy. 


Art Director: Luke Biley  


It is the art directors job to create any things that need to be made for the video for example: props. 


Casting Director: Olivia Griffiths

The casting director is in charge of recruitment for the production they would look for potential people who will work on the project they have to determine if they are right for the job the casting director is vital for the making of the project.       


Location Scout: Olivia Griffiths

The location scout looks at potential sites for filming they have to determine if the site is good to film on and if it matches the theme of the production and if it also matches the description of the directors wishes.     


Production Manager (P.M.): Luke Biley

The production managers job is to manage all the production aspects of the project. 
this means that they are in charge of logistics and budget there job is very important as if they did a bad job it might bankrupt the project.   


Screenwriter: Luke Biley


The screenwriters job is to write the script for the project this means they are creating the story for the project. 
the screenwriters job is very important as they are creating the raw story for the project this means they have a say in the success of the project as people will judge the quality of the story and idea.

Peer Assessment of Documentary

During our lesson we assessed each others documentaries and gave each other some constructive feedback.

When discussing our documentary we realised that it doesn't focus mainly on our title which was "Day In The Life Of A Sixth Former". After reviewing the documentary we discovered that we hadn't filmed them over a whole day and we had resolved to other days so that we could get more footage.

We have therefore re-named the documentary "Life Of A Sixth Former" this just shows that we have noticed its not about their day its about what they do at Sixth Form and how they fit in and get on with their time at the school.

We were assessed by our class on our documentary and the majority of feedback was positive.
However we did receive some critical feedback where they mentioned at some places you can't always understand the interviewee, we had previously noticed this, however we thought by turning up the noise of their speech that this would improve the clips.
This did not work so we have decided that we are going to add sub titles so that it is clearer.

Since getting feedback we have decided that there isn't a lot we need to change, it is just about improving what there is already, making sure the speech is clear and making sure that there is good transitions and it looks as good as possible.