Last lesson .. final deadline

The music
We had more disappointing news's about the music, the choir leader said 10 minutes before we were meant to be recording that she didn't want the children t sing the lyrics in "I like it" song. Some of the lyrics were too "inappropriate for" for 10 year old's to sing.
As a replacement they sang Abba "Take a chance on me" because this was the only song we could only find that was appropriate for the children.
They wouldn't let us chance a few lyrics in the song so it was ok for them to sing therefore we just had to go with Abba and hope for the best.
After putting Abba with our sequence we decided it sound ok and have stuck with it.

Sequence
Today we completed our sequence with the final cake and put another cast's name on it using skittles and i stop motion. We are now going to upload it to the blog and have finished.
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Rough cut deadline

Today is our rough cut deadline, and this lesson we have been putting the final touches onto our sequence in final cut express.
We have managed to complete the following shots:
skittles
cookies
train
alphabet sweets
playing cards
scrabble
( these were all in istop motion)
Cake shots - ingredients and making and cooking
We had to cut down our sequence because our sound track wasn't long enough for our sequence. it was about 20 seconds longer.

We are planning to re-shoot our cakes scenes using istop motion, and we also need a final shot of the cake with sweets moving around it and a name on it. we also need a shot of a child carrying a teddy bear. Also we need to add the film title at the end of the sequence!!!
we will be able to complete that for our final deadline.
We will also have our sound track sung by a childrens choir to make it more appealing to our target audiences.

Today we uploaded all our footage so far onto final cut express , then ordered the shots into sequence.

We decided that we needed to film some more sequences using final cut express as other wise our footage would be to short.
Tomorrow we are going to add the music ' i like it' by Gerry and the peacemakers for our soundtrack.

Mood board

Comparison of toy story and Curious George

Both opening sequences have instantly recognisable music, both songs relate to friendship and creates a happy atmosphere for the film.
Curious George keeps to a minimum of colours and objects whereas toy story has a real setting of a bedroom , the Curious George Opening keeps it simple as it has a number of different setting , so to keep children interested , the bright and simple obejects help them relate. Most children are able to recognise the setting of the bedroom in toy story, therefore this does not need to be as simple.
Toy story doesnt use Complex or intriquete font due to the target audience of children , therefore plain white font is approriate to show the credits in. Curous george also doesnt use complex font, it uses plain black fairly large font on a plain white background, to help the target audience read the titles if they wanted to. the credits for to story are played over the beggining of the film , therefore children are entciced to watch them whereas Curios george plays the credits over a serious of bright colourful pictures, these are appealing to the viewer therefore are also enticed to watch them.
Toy Story introduces the film tittle right at the beggining of the opening tittles, this is because children may not be able to recognise the film they are about to watch. this helps them keep engaged through the opening credits. Curious george introduces the title at the end as the pictures ar appealing enought to keep the target audience entertained.