Comparing our main character to a character from a professional children's film

Our main character is a superhero. He could be compared to Buzz Lightyear from toy story, Buzz lightyear is a good superhero toy who appears human but has several powers. Our main character also looks normal and can use his powers. Buzz Lighter is a loyal hero who wants to help the planet by destroying evil. if we went on to make our film we would of made our main character have these attributes.  In this picture we can see buzz lighter.

Re-Capping on key features

Key framing

An opening sequence is usually one that introduces the characters that you will be seeing throughout the film. Establishing shots are used to set the scene/location of the film. As you see in the start our location is a school field, giving the audience the knowledge that the film is based around superheros and the school they go to. They opening scenes main objective is to give the audience an idea of what to expect throughout the rest of the film. In our opening scene you see the superheros this shows the audience that they are to expect superheros throughout the rest of the film. I used key framing to move the title of the film along with the characters hands. If we had more time we could have put a green sticker on the characters hand to motion track the text with it, this would have given a better effect but would have taken 10x longer to do.

Over the shoulder shot

BBFC Classification

As our film is intended for children around the age of 5-10, we decided that the best classification would be PG. Although PGs are intended for 8 years+ we feel that the film does not highlight any drugs use or any obvious physical pain to the characters. Also violence is justified if it is fantasy and as superpowers are a fantasy then we can get away with superheros fighting each other. Deaths in childrens films are very rare and usually are over dramatised to the point where they only fall over or you just don't see them again.

Intended Audience

 Our intended audience was children from the ages of 5-10. As a kid your are not worried about world issues and are more focused on having fun and messing around. We tried to show this in our film by having our characters have superpowers. This gives our audience (children) the chance to imagine what it would be like to have the abilities our characters do. Our childrens film has 3 characters, two of which have the ability to fly and one the ability to shoot a plasma ball on demand. Within the 2 flying superheros one of them is the 'evil' one ( Imanul ) this gives the kids the chance to be happy when the good superhero defeats the evil one.

Final Children's Film

This is our final complete version of our children's film opening. We are happy with the film as we have managed to get over the technical difficulties we faced. After the few seconds of dark screen at the end we would cut to a school location with the superheros walking in and carry on with the film. The opening went well and we managed to get it all finished in time with the deadlines set.

Editing

I started editing parts of the video using Adobe after effects which i have used before, i used it for seen such as where our 'superheros' fly away and where one of them shoots a plasma beam. Movement for the characters when fly off had to masked out then tracked/positioned in time to moved over a few seconds depending on how fast you want them to fly off. The plasma beam is much harder and i had to use a particle plugin to make the actual beam and then for the plasma ball i added a solid layer and drew a circle on the starting position of the characters hand. I then key framed every few frames and changed the circle according to the characters position up until the end of that scene. Once you have the basics of key framing it is a lot easier than when you first start as it seems to be a lot of work.

Story Board

Story Board for our opening sequence