Fonts!!!!

We have chosen a number of different fonts to look at for our opening titles.




The first two fonts are from the cartoon category from the website dafont.com. We chose to use cartoon fonts because it goes with the theme of childrens film. We the decided to add colour to one of the fonts to see the difference . The multicolours makes it stand out more and makes it appeal to the audience. The first font is called 'tourist trap' and the second font is called 'Candle chrome'.



This font is called 'Allstar' from the 'old school' section. We like the font because it's simple and easy to read which makes it good for the target audience; children! We then experimented with some colours, red and blue, to make it more interesting. It goes especially with a school theme.




These are all the fonts that we are going to be using in our titles.

Filming the Opening to Childrens Film

These are photo's of our filming of children film opening. As you can see we used different locations of the college, to create mise-en-scene of being at school. We filmed over two lessons and managed to get seven minuets of film. On the second lesson we had the problem of the rain, which made the filming process slower. We used a tripod, and a dolly. We used the Dolly for the long shots of walking and match on action, we did this during the second lesson of filming. The plot of our title sequence is about a group of three teenage girls lives starting colleges and experiencing the different experiences that college brings. This makes it gratifying to watch as the target audience is girls. Many girls can relate to the plot with being about friendship, college work and teenage hood, making it gratifying to watch., and making the audience range wider.

Locations

These are the locations that our children's film opening is going to take place.



The Refectory where the two girls eat a sandwich and send a text.

Storyboarding

Brothers Bloom Childhood Sequence Animatic from rcjohnso on Vimeo.

This is an animatic of the opening childhood sequence from The Brothers Bloom. It gave us an idea of how storyboards can be presented in a more complex way, with giving animation to the storyboard and what maybe presented in the film when it is produced, which really sells the idea better.

This is the opening for The Bloom Brothers film. We found it very accurate to the storyboard. However there are some changes from originally planned, showing us that our storyboard doesn't have to be an exact to the way we film it.

We also began planning and drawing our storyboard of our children's title sequence; East High. We tried to interpret the professionalism of 'the bloom brothers' animatic storyboard, but only making it by hand (pencil and paper). We've included crucial detail under each picture to remind us of which shots to use, what is going to be in it and the actors/characters.

Here we have a picture of our sixth form colleges quad. This is the setting of our title sequence, and we intend on placing the photo into our sequence as an opening similarly to Summer Heights High.

This is the opening to Summer Heights High, an Australian comedy which we used as a source of inspiration for our title sequence. Similarly to Summer Heights High our children's program has the setting of a high school.

Opening Sequences

The opening sequence to Napoleon Dynamite caught our attention for the uniqueness of the opening. It draws audiences in with the graphics and the audio. You immediately get the sense of who the characters are, with the names of different objects of food, drawing etc. The main character Napoleon is shown first out of the characters. With the mise-en-scene audiences immediately get a sense of the setting of a school, with the text books, music, and other props.
We like the idea of how the credits are laid out and its visually gratifying to watch. We hope to mimic this idea, to capture audiences attention.

We specifically liked the opening sequence to Juno, because it was done in a child-like way. The colours, movement and music combined made it an appropriate opening sequence to look and and get inspiration from. As you can see above, it shows different screen shots from the sequence and shows the simplicity of the look, which is ideal to capture a childs attention. However, we watched a behind the scenes video of the making of the opening title sequence and it changed our minds of mimicking a scene like it because it obviously was time consuming and more complex than the way it appeared.

Time line

We have chosen to look at 'Kung Fu Panda' to pick out the main features and when they come into the opening sequence. We chose 'Kung Fu Panda' because it fits in well with the childrens film theme.



This is opening sequence to 'Kung Fu Panda'



The music starts, quietly at the beginning of the sequence, it's a calm oriental type of music, which sets the atmosphere as the film is set in China. At 5 seconds into the sequence, the dialogue starts as a voice over of the main character. There is no opening titles as it is a dream of the panda's. However, it gives us the impression that the panda could be the hero in the story. At 17 seconds we are introduced to some more characters who resemble bad guys. At 40 seconds a fight starts which grabs the audiences attention, the fight ends with the panda winning which indicates he could be the hero in the film. At 1 minute and 26 seconds five more characters are introduced. They are called 'The furious five' which are the other hero's in the film. Humour is used throughout the sequence which attracts younger people and also older people. At 1 minute 47 seconds the panda starts to wake up from his fantastic dream and we see him crashing onto the ground as the real panda.