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.

Storyboard for Back To The Future

We had to access the opening scene of Back to the Future; our group was split up into 4 parts, Jazz analised the character positions, Mark analysed the sound, Abi analysed the camera movements and Ryan analysed the mise-en-scene. We then had to document our work onto a story board which Mark wrote up and Jazz drew the pictures.

Finding Nemo Opening Scene

Finding Nemo Opening Scene

From the title of the film, you can tell immediately that it's an adventure film. This is because it suggests that somebody will go missing and a search will be carried out to find them. The audience hears the name Nemo mentioned right at the start when Marlyn and Coral are discussing the names they are going to call their children. Therefore, this gives the audience an idea that it will be one of the children that goes missing.
From the beginning, a family element is introduced because the couple have moved to a new area that is appropriate for raising their children in. The audience can then tell that the theme is family orientated.
The opening scene uses a lot of bright colours and all the fish are colourful and look like they're having fun, whereas the shark is a dark colour which suggests binary opposites. The binary opposites are the fish and the shark, so it is good and evil. The audience knows to relate to Marlyn and Coral's side because they are on the good side and are automatically seen as good characters that the audience can relate to.
The sound used in this clip is soft and gentle. A calm piece of music is used and the sound of bubbles and water makes the audience feel relaxed. However, when the shark comes you notice the calm and gentle music stops and it quickly switches to a dark and scary soundtrack. This represents the sharks character, and lets the audience know something bad is going to happen.
The audience is introduced to the setting straight away. It is bright and lively, which keeps the audience interested at the same time as picking up the location of where it is set. The area is a good area, which you can tell from the dialogue from when they are talking about moving there.
Genre is represented in many ways in the clip. Just from reading the title, the audience can pick up that it is an adventure film. Right from the very beginning, when the shark comes, this introduces the first piece of action. Therefore, the audience can probably tell that after this it will go into the genre of Adventure.
The lighting used in the opening clip is very bright therefore it seems fun and interesting for the audience however it gets a lot darker when the shark comes so it changes the whole mood of the scene.