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Contributions

Throughout the task i've contributed the idea of the actual unicorn, along with jess having the idea of different backgrounds etc. I've helped out in class with the creation, filming and moving the character's/props around on set. I've also helped colour in many of the backgrounds and had the idea of adding a soundtrack that would fit the imovie production quite well, unfortunately we weren't allowed to use it, so recently i've started to create the soundtrack on garageband and it's coming along quite nicely. I had the idea of putting some sounds that would be good for certain parts of the movie into a garageband saved format, and then cutting the audio up when in the editing section.

Target Audience

Whilst preparing and gathering our ideas for our childrens film project we decided on our imovie production to be aimed at 3-8 year olds, making the short film a (U). Seeing as the mini story is about a unicorn called charlie who travels around the world to find his partner, we gathered this would be good for young children to view. Also seeing as there's very little writing and when there is, it's very simple and able for young children to understand. All our backgrounds are very simple and colourful, making it easier for the child to make out the story in their own minds, Charlie the unicorn and his owner are also drawn and coloured, therefore simple but exciting for children. The imovie producion we created is aimed at female children as usually a boy wouldn't find the whole idea of a unicorn very appealing. The production wouldn't appeal to adults as it's very child-like and a cartoon idea but drawn. It contains no adult humour, or anything that's beyond the (U) guidance, making it more suitable for the young children to view. We'd like to think it's aimed at female children but there would be the odd boy that'd watch it, it's got quite an upbeat exciting soundtrack to it, making it interesting for them, which we created ourselves, meaning there isn't a song that contains explicit content or anything not suitable.

Last lesson filming

We are in a dilemma... we still cant film the reunion as Simone thinks she has thrown the farmer away. A way around this is to draw it again but we know it will not be exactly the same as the original. We still need to edit our clips together and create a soundtrack so now i am getting worried. today we are going to delicate jobs so we can get through these jobs as quickly as possible because we know we dont have a lot of time left.

in todays lesson...

In todays lesson we are going to finish filming and start editing depending on how much time we have left. As we are doing i-stop-motion we get extra time filming so this is our last lesson to finish.  All we have left to do is the re-union of charlie and his owner and then we can proceed onto the editing process.