E4 Mood Board

Moodboard E4

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Character sketches

This is the first drawing of the characters I intend to use. From here I recoloured most of the the green and replaced it with the colours that the needed to be.

E4 Ident Script

Will (Simon Bird), Jay (James Buckley), Neil (Blake Harrison) and Simon (Joe Thomas)

Will:

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!

Proposal.

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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 7^th April 2011.

Riddle!

A man walks into a bar, asks for a glass of water, the barman pulls out a shotgun, fires a blast just missing the man, man says thank you and puts a tip on the bar and exits. Why the thank you and the tip?

ClayMation

Producing a stop-motion animation using clay is extremely laborious. Normal film runs at 24 fps. With the standard practice of exposing 2 frames for each shot, 12 changes are usually made for one second of film movement. For a 30-minute movie, there would be approximately 21,600 stops to change the figures for the frames. For a full-length (90-minute) movie, there would be approximately 64,800 stops, and possibly far more if parts were shot with single frame exposed for each shot.

Clay animation can take several forms:

Freeform clay animation is an informal term referring to the process in which the shape of the clay changes radically as the animation progresses, such as in the work of Ivan Stang's animated films.

Strata-cut, an animation, in which a long breadlike loaf of clay, internally packed tight and loaded with varying imagery, is sliced into thin sheets, with the camera taking a frame of the end of the loaf for each cut, eventually revealing the movement of the internal images within. Pioneered in both clay and blocks of wax by German animator Oskar Fischinger during the 1920s and '30s, the technique was revivied and highly refined in the mid-'90s by David Daniels, an associate of Will Vinton, in his 16-minute short film Buzz Box.

Another clay-animation technique, one that blurs the distinction between stop motion and traditional flat animation, is called clay painting (also a variation of the direct manipulation animation process), wherein clay is placed on a flat surface and moved like wet oil paints (as on a traditional artist's canvas) to produce any style of images, but with a clay look to them.

Object animation is a form of stop motion animation that involves the animated movements of any non-drawn objects such as toys, blocks, dolls, etc. which are not fully malleable, such as clay or wax, and not designed to look like a recognizable human or animal character.

Pixilation

Pixilation is a stop motion technique where live actors are used as a frame-by-frame subject in an animated film, by repeatedly posing while one or more frame is taken and changing pose slightly before the next frame or frames. The actor becomes a kind of living stop motion puppet. This technique is often used as a way to blend live actors with animated ones in a film, such as in The Secret Adventures of Tom Thumb by the Bolex Brothers, which used the technique to compelling and eerie effect.

Drawn Animation

Drawn animation is the longest process to use to make any length of video.

Its been used by Walt Disney to make all his animation shorts and films. He used it to make:

-Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

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Cut Out Animation

Cutout animation is a technique for producing animations using flat characters, props and backgrounds cut from materials such as paper, card, stiff fabric or even photographs.

Terry Gilliam is a famous user of this technique. He used it to mock famous artworks.