Will (Simon Bird), Jay (James Buckley), Neil (Blake Harrison) and Simon (Joe Thomas)
Hello E4!
Jay:
I miss E4, home sweet home!
Simon:
You don't have to wait long to see us!
Will:
Yes! We are back! [quick pause]
In the summertime fun that is Malia.
[quick pause] On the colossal screen!
Neil:
What on the big TV?
Jay:
No!
Will:
Well, eventually! First it will be in
the cinemas!
A
19ninetyone
Production
Presents
The Four Amigos
In
Animation Domination
E4 Channel
Ident and Sting
Proposal
The ident will be the Inbetweeners cast in cartoon form talking to camera, effectively breaking the fourth wall, telling the audience about their movie and how they miss E4. Breaking the fourth wall convention is good because it fits with the anarchic feel of both animation and the channel.
The appeal of the characters of the Inbetweeners is that they are popular among the target audience of the channel so they will be right for the ident. E4 has a young adult target audience and I feel that this ident will appeal to them.
To produce the ident and sting animations, I will be using my camera, the Canon Powershot SX30 IS, to take shots of outline drawings, on top of a single colour background, drawn on A4 OHP film. Each shot will be put into Adobe Photoshop to add colour to complete the image. From there the shots will be put in the order in Final Cut Pro to be animated. Once it’s fully animated and completed on there, I will record the voices of characters while watching the animation. Then I will import the audio into Final Cut Pro, to piece it together into a complete ident. For the E4 sting, I will use a shorter fragment of the ident. The E4 logo will fall onto the video and the character heads will appear around it.
Schedule: This will be completed by Thursday 7th April 2011.
