Areas of improvement for children's film. (Tom)

Watching our children's film back i can see that the main areas for improvement are the filming of the animation, the music for the animation and the story line.

The Filming


Animation is quite hard to film because you have to do lots of single photo shots, 10 shots make 1 second of filming, this gives a more smooth look to the movement of the characters/props on stage. Its quite hard to make it really smooth because of the amount of shots and the plasticine moving, and we had a limited amount of time. Also in parts of the animation you can see the fishing wire that holds up the props that go through the air. We could have improve this by using a thinner fishing line and adjusting the light so that the fishing line becomes invisible to the naked eye. Also when the crook flies out the front screen of the car you can see a hand because the finishing wire was to short but at this stage we were rushed for time and we just wanted to get the piece finished. Also between lessons the position of the camera, the lighting and the props on show moved which means we had to try and get it like it was before but doing that was really hard.

The Music


The music to the piece was okay but wasn't constructed brilliantly, the sound effects for the crashing and the then etc. were good and timed perfectly.



((Not finished))