the magic marble

The genre of our opening sequence will be childrens adventure because it will keep the audience interested as children have a short attention span.
The narrative will be about how a magic marble finds a lonely little boy and sends him on a journey unimaginable. However, in the opening sequence we will only show how it reaches him.
The characters will consist of 1 main character, the little boy (Des Ford) and other small roles as the marble will travel through everyone until it reaches the little boy.


the moral of the story is don't judge anything by its appearance

classification system

• PG= parental guidance
• suitable for every child over 8
• parents have responsibility
  
• maybe some discrimination
• any use of drugs should carry an anti drug message
• horror- short
• more adult themes than a U film

our group has made the decision to make the film a PG rather than a U as it gives us more freedom to be create with ideas and themes and therefore attract a wider audience.

toy story textual analysis

• genre- childrens film- adventure
  
• location- child's house and bedroom
• introduces characters
  

''you've got a friend in me'' suggests moral behind
film and how it is about friendship

camera work
there is a point of view shot on woody about half the way into the clip. this establishes that the toy woody is alive not just in the film but in the boys mind too.

the questions the clip raises are
what will happen if the toy comes alive?
what is the other toy the boys mum has got him?

evaluation

as a group we feel that the camera work and the acting suited the criteria that was asked of us. there were a few minor errors whilst filming this sequence, for instance the wind had a major effect on the sound quality. from producing this sequence we have learned how to edit our cuts and to add effects and soundtracks.

we used all the camera shot asked of us, for example the 180 degree rule and the match on action shot. the experience we caught from the three days of our project was that we had to work hard and meet the deadlines. i feel that the overall performance of this project aided us in the knowledge of working as a group.

definitions of (shot reverse shot) and (match on action)

Shot reverse shot is a film technique within which, one character is shown looking at another character (often off-screen), and then the other character is shown looking "back" at the first character. Since the characters are shown facing in opposite directions, the viewer assumes that they are looking at each other.

A match on action is when some action occurring before the temporally questionable cut is picked up where the cut left it by the shot immediately following. For example, a shot of someone tossing a ball can be edited to show two different views, while maintaining temporal continuity by being sure that the second shot shows the arm of the subject in the same stage of its motion as it was left when cutting from the first shot.

The 180° rule is a basic guideline in film making that states that two characters (or other elements) in the same scene should always have the same left/right relationship to each other. If the camera passes over the imaginary axis connecting the two subjects, it is called crossing the line. The new shot, from the opposite side, is known as a reverse angle.

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