Team santa

Children's film progress

So far in this project our group has managed to complete the majority of the work set; we have completed story-boards and time lines, recorded our ideas and thoughts about the music, props, decorations and film it's self and have recorded our whole sequence. In addition to this, we have begun to transfer our film into Final Cut where we edited out out-takes, adjusted the time span for each shot and duplicated two differnt shots of "the elves" aka Jazz and I to make it look as though there are alot more of us than we had planned which relates back to both our initial ideas and our storyboard.
We are commited to finnishing the task by tommorow and think that we are well prepared; we need to create our credits and music which we will do on garage band. We feel we are prepared for completing the music as we know what we would like our theme tune to sound like. We Also need to transfer our narrative/voice-over of the poem into the opening scene of our film.

During the credit sequence we are going to play cheerful, jingly music to fit in with the happy, Christmas theme. We are going to make the music on garage band using bells, string instruments and brass instruments. We think that this would be appropriate for the credits and film title because it would introduce the Christmas theme and give the audience a feel of what the film will be about. This would also be appropriate for a young audience because it would make them happy as opposed to a loud, dramatic piece of music that could scare them.

Storyboard and Timeline

In each individual box on the story board is a drawn explanation of the scene; beneath each of these is a brief summary of what is happening in the scene including shot types and length of the scene.

The time line is split twenty second intervals explaining in further detail exactly what will take place each twenty seconds; this includes shot types and a more reliable time schedule.

In our children's film we are going to use a Christmas poem.

http://www.carols.org.uk/twas_the_night_before_christmas.htm

Location Ideas, Props and Costumes

Opening Scene- Sleeping Children
Location: This shot will be located in a classroom with all the blinds down so the room is dark.
Props: We are going to try and make this look like a bedroom, so we will use candles to create a cosy bedroom light and bedsheets, bed covers and pillows to make tables appear as beds in which the children will be sleeping.
Costumes: Children don't need costumes, the parent will wear normal casual clothing.

Second scene:
Location: This shot will be shot in a college classroom so there is lots of space to establish how many elves there are, and it will be possible to decorate in a cristmasy theme.
Props/ Costumes: The elves will be wearing green costumes and will have rosy red cheeks. Santa will be wearing a full Santa costume with beard etc. Presents will be made from boxes wrapped in paper, the toy machine will also be made from a box wrapped in paper and the childrens list will be on a long roll of paper. The room will be decorated with tinsel.

Childrens Film Ideas

For our children's film idea- we have decided to set it on the theme on Christmas, including the characters Santa Clause, Mrs. Santa and his two helping elves. The storyline will consist of Christmas being jeopardised by the breaking of the toy machine used to make all the children's presents. The intro will also have a narrator introducing the story with a Christmas poem. The opening scene will introduce the main characters- whilst also introducing the problem that will consist throughout the film- that will eventually be resolved.

Santa will be played by Mark
Mrs. Santa will be played by Ryan
The two elves will be played by Abi and Jazz
and the Narrators will also be Abi and Jazz

The title of the film will be "..."