Week 1 Planning & Research - Tuesday 11th October 2011

The story for our Children’s Film Project is called Fleur. It is about a 16 year old, secondary school girl; and how she is transported to another world to find out that she is the Princess of the Flowers, hence the film name being Fleur. We generated this idea through looking at various Walt Disney film trailers such as: 

‘Princess and the frog’,  

This film is U rated and produced by Walt Disney Animation studios, made for a family audience. It's a continuation of the story about the princess who kisses the frog and how it's not all a happy ending at first so a mild adventure occurs with her in frog form, then there is a happy resolution. We took from this the way they presented the difference between the two worlds. We found this trailer very useful.  

‘Cinderella’, 

We watched the credits to cinderella however we didn't find it very useful because they weren't interesting, because of the way they didn't make them special or incorporate them into the cartoon. 

‘Bridge to Terabithia’ 

We found this film very useful, the two minute sequence is however quite interesting but further on in the film it gets to be more like the type of initial idea our film is based on. 

and ‘Alice in Wonderland’. 

We also looked at other films such as ‘Ink heart’:

 
We looked at the way they presented their credits as well as what they presented in the first two minutes. We tried to look at films that had a similar story line to ours, such as well known children films such as 'Monsters Inc.', or films where a person went from their world to another as well as having looked at how they presented this.





I found the above video on YouTube and showed Chloe and Sarah. They both thought the credits where good and we all thought they represented the film they where for well, however because our film is a cartoon we decided not to take anything from them; except the fact we have to make our credits interesting and relevant to our film. 

After watching these trailers and openings, we thought about what way would be best to put the credits and deliberated on putting the title first or having it shown last at the end of the two minutes. We decided it would be easier to put the title first and spring the credits from that. We would do this by, showing the title credit ‘FLUER’ on a pink background then, use the ‘Fade in from black’ effect, when editing, to begin the credits. Following having looked at the ‘Napoleon Dynamite’ opening credit sequence, which is written in food presented in the mise-en-scene, we thought it would make our credits more interesting to make them apart of our mise-en-scene also. So we came to the conclusion that we could incorporate the credit into the doodles the actress will be doing for the opening shot.