Progress report

The planning process so far hasn’t been incredibly difficult as long as we stuck to what the storyboard had said and what we had originally planned. Coming up with an idea was probably one of our biggest challenges and finding something realistic that was achievable in the time given to us, once we did have our idea it was easier from that point on. However the production process has been considerably more difficult than I first thought it was going to be, worrying about continuity and the shadows and light are the same time every time we shoot the sequence. This was one of our problems, having to film on different occasions and getting the conditions as similar to the original as we could possibly make it, the direction of light so the shadows are the same, the angle of the camera so the movements are smooth and the closeness of the shots to get the same proportions made it very difficult. However we used the same set up each time we filmed, the same tripod at the same level in the same position, the same lamp was used to produce the same amount of light to make it nearly the same each time, the only thing we could do in the circumstances. As our group chose to do I-stop-motion we get a little extra time to film as it is more time consuming than filming with actors, so as a result our plan after half time is to finish filming our sequence. Our number one priority is to finish filming, and then soundtracks and effects will be added after. I think we have chosen to have credits/titles at the end of our children’s film as then it doesn’t interfere with the sequence itself although given more time we would’ve liked to do them at the beginning in a way that links to film but again it would take too long in the time given.