Target Audience

Demographics

Judging from our opening sequence, i can see that our film would appeal to a younger audience, the majority being girls. Our opening sequence was animated, but the actual film would be shot in real life. Just like the openings for Casino Royale and juno. Our film stars a young girl, which automatically hints at a young female audience. We have used "girly" colours like pinks and purples and the typography is curly and dreamlike. As the storyline from the book "Layla's Star" is a book for children from about ages 3-8, but i think the film would appeal to audiences up to the age of around 14. I think the kinds of films the viewer would be interested in would be Pixar films like Finding Nemo(2003), Dreamworks films like Shrek(2001),Disney films such as High School Musical (2006), Cinderella (1950)or Enchanted (2007), and other films like, homeward bound(1993), Wild child(2008) and Hairspray(2006). They would have a mixture of animated and non animated films. Enchanted is a good comparison to our film. The majority of the audience would be young girls in primary school and early secondary school. It begins as an animated fairytale kingdom and then collides with modern day life, so it has a bit of both worlds. I think our audience would be engaged with stories and fairytales and have a creative imagination. It would also be family friendly so mums dads and brothers or sisters would go to see it.

One day remaining...

Today we have been tweeking a couple of scenes that we had by adding more frames to make it smoother. taranpreet has done this for Layla crying, Hannah did the ballons drifting into the sky and i did layla walking to her room. These are frames 5, 12 and 18. There are 20 in total for this scene. Kirsty didn't manage to bring in the music today so fingers crossed we will have it for tomorrow to add in, free time in lesson 3, 4 or at lunch.

Monday morning (and yes its raining)

In today's lesson, we had to add a few more pictures with the new text added, and on some pictures the text was changed, but the picture did not move. We have also added a THB productions which is Taranpreet, Hannah,Becky productions on a moving star at the beginning, and our names at the end of the sequence.
We asked Kirsty, the musician in the class, if she would be able to compose a short tune for our title sequence, and she has kindly done so( woo thanks Kirsty!) On Thursday we will be listening to watch she has come up with and putting onto our film. I'm hoping that the music will lift the sequence up a bit, and give it something extra. At the moment I'm not 100% happy with our opening, so ill see what else needs to be done.

Meltdown :O

Last Monday Leanne suggested we had change our font from ariel rounded to curlz mt, so we had to open our pictures with text on and change them. We uploaded them and saved; we managed to do this in the 2 hours.Today we went back onto the mac but the text had not changed. All the new pictures we had uploaded were not there :O
......Firstly i freaked out, and then we had to get back to work. So today we had to go back onto our pictures and put them all onto the memory stick to try and put them back onto our mac. Unfortuanlty the memory cards screwed up our pictures. Once thepictures were uploaded the framing was out and them kept flashing!! so we had to move the pictures onto another memory stick and redo it.