classification :P

Parental Guidance : Unaccompanied children of any age may watch. A ‘PG’ film should not disturb a child aged around eight or older. However, parents are advised to consider whether the content may upset younger or more sensitive children.
[http://www.bbfc.co.uk/classification/guidelines/pg/]




We have come to the conclusion that our film is a PG due to the use of words that young people may not be able to read. 

Although there is no use of anyting remotely violent for example Drug use, violent behaviour and use of any inappropiate substances. There is no presence of horror either. 
Sex, nudity, bad language and discrimination are examples of what we didn't want in our film.

Films like 'The Incredibles', 'Bug's Life' and ' Monster's Inc' are examples of animation films we wanted our children's film to be based on, a simple storyline and distinguished characters almost straight away.

Meg and Marf
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Planning!!!!!!!!!

Our first story board after changing our idea ^^^^^^^^^^^

Our second page of story board. 



The story board didn't upload when it was suppoed to, it saved in drafts and we have only recently realised this, so here are our storyboards. 


By Megan and Martha
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Overall, we are mildly pleased with our final product. We managed to overcome some of the obstacles we came up against, however some problems could not be fixed.

We now know for next time that we need to take more time to film rather than wasting time beforehand discussing things that are irrelevant, and didn't end up linked to our children's film.






By Megan and Martha XOXOXOXOXOXO

Sound FX

After reviewing the sounds more on the CD, we found a heartbeat sound, which we used to add the intensity levels in a certain part of the scene (when SuperBoy flies to save the cat)

Martha then went through GarageBand to search for a backing tune for when things in the scene start to heat up, and she found a more upbeat tune, which really represents what is going on in the scene.

Joe, Megan and Martha. 
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Problems that have occurred during the filming process.

Because of our eagerness to complete the sound effects, we have come across a problem. The problem is that we have done the sound and now we want to reduce the length of the end scene as it is too long, and it could get a bit repetitive.
We will deal with this problem however now we know for the future that we need to consider all aspects of the film are finished before beginning to apply sound effects.

megmog, joseff, marfa
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Searching for sound FX

After scanning through the sounds Garage Band had to offer, we found that there were limited effects we were fond of, or that would fit in nicely to our scene. The other alternative we had was to use the sound FX cd in which we were able to find the wind effect used in our piece.

We are still searching for more sounds including a low drum beat, almost like a heart beat to add extra intensity, but we are yet to find this on both the cd and on GarageBand.


Joe and Megan and Martha
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filming

We only completed the set for our filming 15 minutes before the end of the first lesson of this week, so we filmed for 10 and then packed away. The next lesson we set up the set and filmed as quickly as we could.
We finished filming to the best of our ability with a few problems in during the filming, for example the tree kept falling over with the cat on top, and the old lady didn't seem to be able to stay upright, so we propped her up with a cocktail stick.

When we tried to carry on filming from last lesson, we didn't seem to be able to open our previous filming so we began again, which didn't cause too many problems as we'd barely started filming anyway.

We tried to make the filming as smooth as possible but it's quite difficult as we used stop motion and we were also trying to move plasticine people, however we think it looks as good as it could've done.

woohoo.
by megan and martha and joe waaaaa xxxxx