Finding Nemo.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOJ3XXnr1cs&feature=PlayList&p=2DB117F6C696C394&index=0&playnext=1

Narrative:
The film starts with Coral and Marlin getting very excited about their eggs being nearly ready to hatch, so they are planning their futures. Then suddenly there is a big fish that's wants to eat their eggs, so Coral swims down to save them. Marlin tries to help her by distracting the bigger fish however is knocked unconscious. He wakes up to find Coral and all but one egg gone. There is then a cut to Marlin waking up find Nemo jumping on him with excitement rushing through him because its his first day of school. They then get ready to go on a school trip and there is a hint of danger when when there is a warning from Marlin about Nemos "lucky fin," ( which is his small fin).

Genre:
Finding Nemo is a hybrid and has a mixture of different genres. This film consists of Adventure, when Marlin and Dory go across the ocean to find Nemo. Comedy as it has quite a lot of "one liners" and Dory an air headed fish is always making jokes about things. It is also classes as a family film which means that it appeals to a wide range of audiences (the whole family)

Characters:
In the opening sequence we are introduced to a lot of characters, however only a few of these are significant main characters. There main characters are: Nemo - who is a young clown fish who is taken from his home to the other side of the ocean and placed in a fish tank. Marlin - Nemos father, who is searching for Nemo after he has been taken. Dory - who is found by Marlin whilst on his way to find Nemo, Dory helps Marlin find Nemo. The characters are stereotypical of an animated children's film, as they are all kind, friendly and happy characters. However there are some villains, who are the sharks, which are stereotypically bad characters.

Atmosphere:
The atmosphere of the opening sequence is very light hearted and upbeat. As Coral and Marlin are planning how to bring up their young and are very excited. Then suddenly it changes when the big fish comes, there is a big mood change and it instantly feels negative.

Themes:
The themes for Finding Nemo are: family loyalty, with Marlin trying to find his son after he was stolen. Loss, as Marlin has lost his son.

Problems During Filming.

Whilst we were filming our opening sequence we encountered and overcome some issues which has helped us as a group. In day one of filming, we had the problem of the actual location of our opening sequence, but we managed to find an empty class room. The next problem was making the classroom and college corridors look like a house. We overcame this by hanging up sheets and putting things up to look like curtains and covering tables with more sheets to look like a bed. Another problem on our first day of filming was the fact we were one actor short to play the young boy. However we dealt with this problem by the time we needed to film that section as we asked a friend to do the part.
On our second day of filming we had some more problems. A main problem was when we were filming in the corridors, there were some lockers in the way of our shot, so we decided to cover them up with a sheet. Also another problem was we were going to use two pieces of paper to place in front of the camera so as when the children were waking up you would see it from their point of view and it would look like their eye lids opening and closing, however after several attempts at this, we decided to discard that idea and use a two shot.

idea for changing sequence.

This is the film life size, this is the transforming sequence where a doll turns into a human, we wanted to watch this to get an idea on how the doll changed to a human.

Back To The Future Storyboard

This is our storyboard for the first two shots in "Back To The Future".
The storyboard includes information about the shot number, what's happening in the shot, camera movement and the sounds in the shot.
The pictures show each bit that happens in the first shot and then the final picture is the last shot.

This has helped us to understand that a long lengthed shot cannot be shown on one square on a storyboard, it must be spread out along many squares, showing every part of the shot and what happens.

preliminary task evaluation.

For our preliminary task we had to create a short sequence of a conversation using different shot types. We had to think about our shot types to keep the audience engaged and so that the sequence did not get boring.
Although one member of the group was a away our original story board did not fit our new ideas, however we did not have time to create a new one. Even though we had a few set backs to begin, and originally found it difficult to think of some new ideas, our final sequence worked well.
In one section we had a problem with continuity editing as i was facing one way in one shot and then the other way in the next shot but this problem has helped me to be careful when filming to watch out for things like this.
We also included all the shots that were required. I feel that our match on action shot flowed smoothly from the previous shot to create a fluid transition. It was very difficult to do the 180 rule with two people to film and act so we had to film all our sections of talking and then cut and move them. Despite this being an unconventional way of doing it, it proved to work well and looked effective.
From doing this task i have learned how to overcome problems such as not having enough in our group. I also feel that i have become more confident using a camera now and know more different shot types.

Song Choice for opening credits.

We have chosen this song for our opening credits because it is relevant to the theme of Christmas and sets the scene well and draws in a wide audience of parents as well as children.

Narrative

Its a week before Christmas, and a brother and sister have found one of their presents. They both open them early to see whats inside. They find a barbie and ken doll and a magic reaction takes place after they both say, at the same time, "i wish you were real" to the two dolls. This causes the dolls to transform into real people. This makes the children excited at first but soon come to realise after receiving a letter from Santa saying that all other dolls have disappeared due to their naughty actions, of opening their presents early. The children are then given the chance to right their wrongs by turning the dolls back into plastic, however the dolls have fallen in love with each other and do not want to be turned back into plastic so they run away together to escape. The children now have to find them, with only 5 days before Christmas eve to return the dolls to their rightful place. This leads them on to an adventure, filled with magic and trials, that will take them all the way to the North Pole. The film ends with a stereotypical happy ending where the children find dolls who are willing to return to plastic as long as they stay and play together, meaning that the siblings have to get on, which adds a moral lesson to our storyline.

Series Of Unfortunate Events.

Conventions of a childrens opening sequence.
Narrative:
- Introduces characters and their personalities and interests (signifies possible events within the narrative)
- Starts conventionally and then immediately changes to darkness. This is going against convention which is usually a happy start, but in this film we get a dark and moody feeling.
- Refers to family secrets, and suggests that we will find out what they are.
- The narrative will be mainly focused on the children.

Characters:
- They don't conform to the stereotypes of typical childrens film
- Introduction - the children do not talk
- you see them from the back initially when they are introduced
- Old fashion clothes (sets time period)
- Children are very clever:- the boy reads and remembers all the books he reads
- the older girl invents things
- The children are very wealthy and a close family unit.

Genre:
- Hybrid (which is a mixture of more than one genre)
- Adventure: - when they become orphans
- discover the family secrets
- Horror (unconventional): - house was burnt down
- graveyard
- creepy man
- Fantasy: - lack of realism
- the flower that grows immediately
- Comedy - when the young baby is biting on the table
-Romance?

Atmosphere:
- Elf scene - happy, humorous. The music is upbeat, joyful, laughing and singing.
- Sudden change to gloomy and dark - dark lighting, low key lighting, gloomy, fog.
- Eery music made an uneasy atmosphere.
- The existence of the contrast between the happy beginning and the dark change, makes the change to the dark bit seem even more dark and worse.

Themes:
- Sense of family - referred to as a group (by their surname) - closeness
- Love (siblings)
- Secrets and mystery of the characters when they are introduced as you only see the back of them, also when the children look around the house once it's been burned down, and find secret objects.
- Overcoming the tragedy of losing their parents.

conventions of a childrens film.

Narrative
-Simple structure
-Resolution - Happy ending
-Throughout narrative, some disruption that characters have to overcome
-Moral message

Genre

-Action


-Romance


-Comedy


-Adventure


-Musical


-Fantasy



Children's films are often a hybrid - contains two or more genres.