Evalutaion

Although we originally intended to create a podcast for our evaluation, there were some issues that forced us to have a video instead. As the previous version was sound over a black title card we decided to put a few images over the top to keep people more interested. Ideally we wanted to reshoot ourselves speaking to fill in all of the gaps however we didn't have enough time, so here's the best we could do in the time given. Thank you:

Updated verion of Lucy Firr

After noticing some problems with the video, we have edited the video introducing new intro music and a resolved sound issue, enjoy.

New intro music

Our original opening music was so commonly used that we thought that we should use another song, instead of piecing together the sound clips in iMove, we decided to get uncopyrighted music off the internet instead.

Heres the link to our new opening song:

http://www.freeplaymusic.com/index.php

As the website doesn't allow links to direct music, if you type rememberance in the search box the song is called In rememberance 30 (make sure you spell it that way rather than the correct spelling remembrance)

Poster

Evaluation uploading problems

For some reason nothing can upload to the blog so im having to create a video to put to our "podcast" to upload it to youtube, sorry about the wait.
Here it is:

Review

At last Lucy Firr may rest in piece

Ok so after 6 hours of failed uploads, long waits for youtube authorisation and kitkats I have finally got the final video uploaded to youtube :D so here it is... this is...

Lucy Firr: Rest in pieces

Troubles with uploading

Just to let everybody know we are currently trying to upload our completed pieces, we're just having a little trouble with our internet connection speeds and the video keeps being interrupted by a disconnection. I am currently working on this but can guarantee they will be up by 12pm tomorrow.

Thankyou,

Sam

Deadline tomorrow!

It's the deadline tomorrow so everyone will be able to see our Film review, poster and our animation on the blog tomorrow. Me and Sam have been working our asses of to get the final pieces done to our animation and it's really starting to all come together now. We have now been working on our evaluation questions which is being filmed tonight, we are planning to do a commentary over our animation piece this way we can talk about each section of our animation in detail and use direct links to answer the questions to show our audience how and why we done particular things. We are really looking forward to having it all done finally and our feed back from the people who have seen our animation so far have all been positive which has really lifted our spirits on it as we thought we had hit a brick wall at one point but we're really excited to finally show off our hard work. The film review text will be posted later today and then the final piece will be on here either the end of today or tomorrow, hope you enjoy it.
Hannah

Starting on the film review today it's part of one of our ancillary tasks as we have finished our poster which is the other one and that will be uploaded soon we have had some uploading issues as my laptop has broken and gone to be repaired but we will be able to over come that because our media teacher is allowing us to use her laptop to upload our work, we have come to quite a few problems, I think we underestimated the work load needed for this animation and the amount of time
We had to do It but if we really work at it we can get it finished before Easter. I'm really looking forward to finally seeing our finished and hope you enjoy it too.

Hannah

UPDATE: Poem

Just an update of the poem for everybody:

There once was a girl named Lucy Firr

Who never moans, never causes a stir
She lived in an orphanage and that's where she'll stay

The shame is her friends never ask her to play

They just run about their childish deeds

Without a thought or glance as this girl recedes

Into the darkness isolated and alone

While the orphanage owner sits high on her throne

The orphanage owner is horrible and fat

Lucy's only true friend is the orphanage cat

He pays her attention he'll let her come play

And in turn for his comfort she allows him to stay

High up in the orphanage inside a small room

Lucy and the cat will play in the gloom

Rather than games such as hide and seek

Lucy would rather play torture the weak

She scares the children with spiders through floors

And howling loudly at night throwing novels at doors

The orphanage children who are frozen with fright

Lie aware of the things that go bump in the night

One morning when Lucy lie awake in her bed

Sudden thoughts rushed through her and filled her with dread

A memory? A dream? A nightmare perhaps?

Whatever it was had caused her to collapse

When she next awoke she was surrounded by black

And when footsteps approached she was forced to step back

Impaired by the darkness leaving her blind

As she reached on wary of what she might find

In a desperate attempt Lucy grasped at the door

But found a soft comfort that she'd felt before

When she opened her eyes she felt like a prat

As she gazed up aware of the orphanage cat

Let me know what you think of the last two lines, they're meant to relieve some of the tension from the previous lines, but are they disturbing the feel of the poem? Please comment.

Target Audience

Our target audience is mainly for children and young adults because we feel it contains criteria of interest to a younger audience rather then adults but that's not to say adults will not enjoy the film. Although the animation is for a younger audience I would suggest the rating is a PG rather then a U, this is due to the fact that it contains some disturbing scenes due to our Dark , Gothic, Tim Burton inspired theme, which may scare younger children. So in terms of age range I would suggest it's targeted at 11-16 year olds, maybe even up to 18 year olds as it seems as though Tim Burton films such as The Nightmare before Christmas attracted a vast teenage audience. With this audience it allows us to be creative with our imaginations as children have an active imagination and often like to think outside the box. Using the idea of impossible worlds is also appealing for children as it's not realistic, it's a form of escapism. Hence why we are using plasticine models but what child doesn't dream about objects coming to life? So we put that into a narrative and made our characters turn from that boring block of plasticine into it's own characteristic life.

The cat has officially been molded

After debating whether the cat should be modelled realistically or with exaggerated size we decided for the purpose of detail and proportion to Lucy, the cat should be bigger rather than smaller. So after hours of fiddling about with plastacine this is the final model I have come up with which suits the original artwork perfectly.

Here are a few pictures: