Feedback

To all feedback given i thank you for giving me some input into the development and improvement of my animation. Basically i will be taking on board all the feedback and using it to improve my next piece.

People have mentioned that the music doesn't really suit an e4 esting and so next time i make an esting i will choose more suitable music for the actual esting that'll not only suit the genre of e4 but the video itself.

Another point was that they didn't understand the actual esting as it didn't actually follow a plot but they next one will make more sense and will follow a story allowing people to understand the e4 esting.

Evaluation

During this project i have had to create an e4 Ident using stop frame animation techniques. While doing this i had to work alongside Samuel Stevens and share the responsibilities of the project.

I had charge of the Blog and noting down all our work and talking about in on the blog, this involved what we planned and had to collect to make a list of everything. To do this i had to rely on Sam collecting all the items needed so that i could check everything.

I was also in charge of research for the project, so i was having to look at different e4 Idents are try to think of ideas that would entertain the audience of e4 in the short time. After looking at a few different e4 Idents i started to develop my own idea of what we should do and sort Sam for his opinion on the project idea.

Sam's part was to purchase and collect the props to be used for our Ident. This was to be done after we had planned out the scenario and thought about what we needed to use in it. So after careful consideration the quantities of what was needed and what we needed in general, Sam was then able to purchase the props.

His other job was to set up the set for the Ident once he had purchased the props, so we were on a set schedule for this project to move forward.

We felt the project started to show positive feedback when we we doing the final touches on Final Cut putting all of the project together we saw a lot of progress and how the animation began to flow together.

1999 The Matrix

1.I feel that this movie is a good point in history because it symbolises a change in the films we watch today. Allowing us to experiment with more diverse and complex movie ideas.

2.The Matrix was one of the first full length feature films which used blur live action animation in the movie. It was influenced by Japanese animation and it’s continual digital manipulation of the image by individual frames.

1989 Wallace and Gromit debut in Nick Park's A Grand Day Out

1.I think that Wallace and Gromit is an important part of animated history as it’s a well known clay animation using stop frame animation technique.

2.A Grand Day Out is an award-nominated 1989 animated film directed and animated by Nick Park at Aardman Animations in Bristol. This was the first adventure featuring the eccentric inventor Wallace and his quiet but smart dog Gromit.

1932 First known colour cartoon

1.The first colour cartoon was ‘Flowers and Trees’ by Walt Disney, this was a big step for Walt Disney and other animation companies as it signified the step from black and white to colour. This was a building block to the future of animation.

2.The cartoon was released in 1932 and was directed by ‘Burt Gillet’. It was the first commercially released film to be produced in full colour three strip Technicolour process.

1832 The Phenakistoscope

1.The creation of the Phenakistoscope is a relevant part of stop frame animation because it signifies the beginning of a long line of stop frame techniques.

2.How it works; “The Phenakistoscope use a spinning disc attached vertically on a handle. Around the centre of the disc a series of pictures was drawn corresponding to frames of the animation; around its circumference was a series of radial slits. The user would spin the disc and look through the moving slits at the disc's reflection in a mirror. The scanning of the slits across the reflected images kept them from simply blurring together, so that the user would see a rapid succession of images with the appearance of a motion picture.”

4 key points in Animation history

1832 The Phenakistoscope

1920 First known colour cartoon, The Debut of Thomas Cat

1989 Wallace and Gromit debut in Nick Park's A Grand Day Out

1999 The Matrix and its later sequels blur live action and animation in the presentation of the action (influenced by Japanese animation) and its continual digital manipulation of the image at the level of individual frames.

Jobs list

Samuel Stevens:

• Obtaining props
• Making the set for the Esting

Robbie Connolly:

• Blog information
• Research and development of idea

Props List

Tree -

• Use green moulded dough the create the bushy leaves of the tree.
• Use chicken wire as a skeleton for the stump of the tree.

Snow -

• Will be made using cotton wool or crushed ice cubes.
• When using the cotton wool it will be compressed to leave a more solid appearance.

Man -

• Our man will be made out of Lego and so will have a normal appearance of man.

E4 Logo -

• The e4 logo will be made out of cotton wool thats been colour with colour dye.
• The other choice will be using play dough to create the e4 logo.

Planning and development

Having a variety of different topics for this project already done on paper, we have chosen 1 idea to continue forward with.

The idea we have chosen is a short ident that begins with a snowy landscape, our chosen character walks into the shot and begins to urinate on the snow, (we only hear the sound). After finishing up, the character will walk off and the camera will zoom in on the snow and show e4 drawn in the snow with piss.

There are going to be two different versions of this animation, one will be clay based and the other will be paper based.

Being drawn on two separate sheets moving along the background to create this effect.

The clay will be done in 3-D.

The resources i need will be;

Clay animation:

• A variety of clay models
• Cotten wool
• Colour dye
• Water

Paper based animation:

• paper
• pencils/stencils
• variety of colours