Production company

The BBC production company would be interested in our children's film Policeman Dan because they have made similar projects in the past such as : Fireman Sam, Postman Pat, Shaun the Sheep and Wallace and Grommit.

Editing our Final project

This is what our final cut project looked like.
During this process we used many different editing techniques; some of these included:

• Using titles
• Fade in fade out slowly

We then started a 

Evaluation Task.

You can compare the opening of our children's film to the opening of Fireman Sam. The similarities between the two is that within the first minute of the opening you see the main character in the job that the film is about, and also see some of the difficulties that he has to face in his everyday life in the service. Another similarity is that both are made from plasticine and the images are captured by programmes like i stop motion and then put together and edited to make the sequence a lot more smooth. Also both use interesting colours and music to get the attention of the young audience.

These two screen grabs show the characters in their service vehicles, this shows that their both doing their job although Fireman Sam has a bigger sense of emergency, because Policeman Dan is having a coke and donut. The difference is that the camera for Fireman Sam tracks Sam and does and close up of him in his vehicle, Whereas in Policeman Dan the camera just stays in one place but zooms in when he eats and drinks.

Feedback

Question 1 - Camerawork;

There was a lot of movement., but not many different angles, the camerawork was steady.

Question 2 -
a) Sound;

The use of sound is really good, sound effects are really effective and placed perfectly, creates the exciting action atmosphere. Mostly use of diegetic sound which was good.

b) Titles;

Introducing the characters well, introduces the location well however, it doesn't really open the story well but its still an intriguing opening.

Question 3 -
a) Mise en Scene;

The animation is smooth in most areas, though you can see some of the groups hands.

b) Target Audience;

Probably male aged 8 years onwards.

Question 4 - Editing;

The pace is all round continually good and flows well. However at times it lags behind a bit. They have used continuity editing in their sequence which is similar to many other children's films. This type of editing and the way it has been done is smooth.

Question 5 - Distribution;

Disney might produce and distribute this film as it is quite similar to some films that they make.
It is aimed at kids like most Disney films and is simple in it's narrative and also very easy to watch and it is exciting,

Final Childrens film opening

list of stuff :)

HI
stuff we will need :)

• plasticine
• toy police car
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Final animatic with music

We found the sound effects on Garageband which were appropriate for our opening sequence. The sound effects used fit with our sequence and timing of whats going on in the opening.