Pre-production

Tom the killer octopus

In the lesson we received the brief that we are meant to create an animation for. 

Brief 

We then decide who we wanted to do this with. From past experiences i felt that I work well with Callum and that we tend to produce work at its best when we work together, we can both add something across and make it work at its highest standard. 

We started to look at some videos online and think which kind of animation we would like to do. It was the research I guess that made us realise Cut out animation is something we can both do and can both do something that links with it, we done it before and thought is the best out of the other 3 we was thinking of. 

 In the brief it says to produce a brainstorm which we began to do. we started to just write down exactly what we was thinking, all from our mind. It didn't make sense but then when we decided what we wanted to do it was easy which side we wanted to do towards 

Brainstorm 

As well as that we each had to write up two different proposals. We managed to do that in a lesson.  

Callums Proposal 

My proposal 

Producing a pre-production folder, you will need a storyboard of what will be happening, You will need a paper idea of it all. I have produced my own mini Storyboard for the idea e have came up with.

Our storyboard 

When we were thinking of the name for the animation we managed to produce a small survey on what name people prefer to call an octopus. We designed a table and came up with some names. Went around the class asking which name they would prefer.

Table
From the table you can see that To the Octopus was the most popular name so we have called our mini cut out animation Tom the Octopus which we think goes pretty well with the whole idea. 

Every production, animation or film needs a production schedule to know what will be going on and when. It will include the time it starts and where its taking place. For ours we included the time the production will begin which is at 1:00pm and where which is NCN Adams Building.

Production schedule 

Clay animation

what is clay animation ? 
Clay animation is when you have a bit of clay and you make something out of it like an object or some sort of creature. Then you make it do something so you move it round or move its arms and legs to make it do something. Its all done with clay so its all clay animated.

What I did?
I manged to make a mini clay animated little monster or gust. I named it Tincky and it was a pink colour with two googly eyes. I made it look like it was flying around with the rainbow in the background. The animation is called 'Rainbow love'.

If i did this again what would i do differently? 

If I did this again I would think of a better idea as my character/ monster didn't have much of a movement, it just looked like it was moving around like the body didn't move etc. It wasn't as smooth as I wanted it to be and it didn't look really professional. i should have made her arms move and maybe did something else, not just move around the screen. 

Why do I like these clay animations?
I like these two animations because Shaun the sheep was my favorite animated cartoon I used to watch on CBBC when I was younger, I used to love it but I never new how it was made.
The first one includes Pingu which I remember I also used to watch when I was younger, There were short animated clips made that just popped up between programs. These animations bring back memories and the way they are made is so creative, i like them a lot.