Soundtrack Mindmap

Soundtrack Mindmap

For our animation we want to make it dramatic sad music to set the scene that something bad is going on.

I have researched music used in charity's and they are usually sad genres e.g. a piano playing softly etc.
I have thought about the music we want to incorporate in our advert and came up with such songs as;

Try a Little Tenderness - Otis Redding
Is it This Womans Work - Kate Bush
Giacomo Puccini - Sono andati?
Edward Elgar - 2nd Movement, Serenade for Strings

These songs are good to use because they are emotional and you can really feel the tenderness in the artists vocals shouting out the the viewer. It suits the advert because of the mellowness of them, they aren't happy cheerful and hyper. The song can set the mood massively as some songs can even move a person and get them to be emotional which is what these songs do and that is what we want the people looking at our advert to do in order to get them to help us change the world. 

Character Sketches

This Sketch is of the Hunter that will be firing the gun that kills the elephant.

This sketch is of the elephant that is going to get shot. 

Aardman Animation Techniques

Aardman Animations, also known as Aardman Studios, is a British animation studio based in Bristol, United Kingdom. The studio is known for films making stop-motion clay animations, mostly using the Plasticine characters Wallace and Gromit.

- Wikipedia 

There are many different job roles that are involved while producing products at Aardman  Animation studios. Some of the jobs that are involved are the Director and Producer, Art Directors, Animators, Editors, Model Makers, Sculptors, Painters and many more.

DIRECTOR 

Peter Lord is a Director at the studio and as his job as a director, he controls the film artist measures and guiding his crew to fufill these measures. It is up to him to find who works under and who acts as voicing for the characters. There ideas add more life to the script and make amazing outcomes.
  







PRODUCER
A producer is someone who puts money into the film and sometimes there ideas. Someone like this would be Peter Lord who was the producer of the acclaimed Chicken Run. Peter Lord would put money towards what he thought Chicken Run needed. And if it need more advertisement they would come of idea on advertising which Peter Lord would be okay with.




Art Director- Art directors are those who oversea the production of anything from models to set creation. This would be considered one of the hardest jobs in Aardman Studios as since all the set and Characters are made by hand, there's so much to oversea.

Sculptures-  Sculptures are the ones who sculpt and make the individual pieces for what piece that have been tasked with creating usually there many sculptures working at the same on Aardman Production so the job is lessoned however, Every single movement must be sculpted out into its own single piece so that itself is a hard job.















Animator- This is the person who shoots each frame that goes into the end product, and every model that is created is positioned into each frame shot by shot then taken down and replace with the next frame. They would do this so that when its all been shot they replay into one continuous shot with no jumping shots. 

News Vs Documentary

News Vs Documentary

News and Documentaries are very similar as they both look into factual information, both looking as far as possible into situation and things affecting the situation. They would usually  take at place of have footage of the scene of subject, and a narrator or someone giving an overview of the overall situation and get someone like a reporter who will interview/ find more out about what happened or is happening, usually conveying peoples thoughts & feelings connected to the event.

News

News mostly focus on current factual situation and things that will intrigue watchers on a mass scale, this would usually be news on just about anything, they usually have reporters at scenes speaking to police or eyewitnesses about what has just happened and what they saw/ know. When the news find out more information they usual put most of it into another short story show. Regulating what would cause trouble to viewers.

News Shows have a specific layouts that usually run through every program show on the that show, One of them would this small borders at the bottom of the page that have short 'straps of information of things currently happening on a worldwide scale that there informers are reporting. All conversations  and debates on news channels are always live and being updated. This is from a shot news being reported about the oil Spill w/ commentary from experts, as this all live anything they say cannot be undone and since many people watch the news what they said is passed worldwide and so they have to watch what they say because it could lead to trouble. Below where you can see these live footage from all three locations you can still other information pass under if you don't  like whats being reported at the moment.

Documentary

Documentaries Usually Focus on past factual situations and events, and theories that affect many or not many people. Documentaries go in depth on these situations, events or theories. Getting together as much information as people as to why?, how?, what?, who? and wheres of the situation relativity getting together everything known to them and say the public. sometimes even the aren't private which officials and governments do not really want seen. As because documentaries as light news stories they go more into the personal side of certain subjects that affected the situation and changed the course of events.

In documentaries they have a more of film -like feel to them, disregarding any information that doesn't affect what dont the documentary talks about they really have a need to have an specific layout that runs throughout , then focuses on capturing emotions and thoughts in there shots. Since documentaries are edited and perfected they can be made to make people feel certain things other than just capturing the emotion and effect spread throughout shots and archivial footage.In Children of a lost State they take complete control of the art of the shots used and convey the depressing emotions of those inside this poverty filled area. They use various video effects and sliding shots, disregarding what is happening outside of the documentary.

Production Schedule Animation

Final Edit Documentary/Interview

Issues Of Documentary

Issues Of Documentary

Accuracy- Accuracy is the explanation of a subject in a precise manner.  Accuracy is extremely important within a documentary as it mustn’t give the audience false factual information. A documentary that gives good precise information in its facts is Fahrenheit 911 whereby it explains the events correctly that happened within George Bushes presidency. It also gives accurate statistics within the film to give the viewer an idea of how big or small something could be.  

Balance- Balance within a documentary is to show equal sides to a story and or argument. This helps the documentary seem bias (one sided) Balanced documentaries make the viewers look at both sides of a story and let them choose what to believe in or not. Fahrenheit 911 is also very well balanced for both sides of the Iraq war, who it affects and why.

Impartiality- Impartiality is the documentary is neither for or against whatever the subject may be (quite similar to balance) Showing equal amounts for both sides for or against. Michael Moore (Director of Fahrenheit 911) has his own opinion on George Bush who he doesn’t like. However he does not portray this within the film, it shows equal sides of good and bad within the documentary. 

Objectivity- This is when a documentary places facts and information to point the subject into one corner for the audience to believe (To persuade the audience to look to one side)

Subjectivity- This is when facts, information and opinions are presented in order to let the audience decide for their own opinion. An example of this being shown within Fahrenheit 911 is when the all the information is presented of the Bush family and the Bin Laden family relationship. The information is powerful but it doesn’t stay persistent on just attacking the bush family to force peoples opinions to a bad side.

Opinion- This is the thoughts of the audience who are viewing the documentary and their opinions on what they are being shown.

Bias- This is where a documentary can be one sided towards the subject, or argument. This could possibly be to make someone or something look bad and another thing look good in comparison.  

Issues in film




Film can also be evident to using biased opinions as well as documentaries. Often with many of the true story based films, there will be a small element of a two sided argument on the subject that is being filmed. However in most cases within a film, it shall only show one side of a story. The reasons for this could be things such as the side of the story not talked about could have been to hard to adapt to screenplay. This means that what happened at a certain event could have been too challenging to portray in the correct way within the film.


Or it can simply be the director or producers who only want to portray a story in one specific way. This is the much more negative side of being biased in film due to some what of ignorance of the people creating the film. A good example of a film being biased is the new Zero Dark Thirty, this film is about the build up and finish of killing Bin Laden. The main reasons for it being relatively biased is because it seems to ignore the hard work of the CIA, FBI, Homeland security of America, George W.Bush and Obama and place it all on just one female CIA agent who was the only reason why Bin Laden was killed. It even, to some extent seems to only touch on the Navy Seals who carried out the operation to kill Bin Laden. You could also link this film with the idea of Objectivity, whereby a director points the subject into one corner for the viewers to believe, it seems to keep the audience ignorant towards the deeper side of the subject being the hard work done by the CIA, FBI etc.


Another example within this film is where nearly every Muslim women in the Pakistan scenes are wearing some sort of head covering. Which causes controversy seeing as the only time women wear head coverings within Pakistan are within the tribal areas. This film seems to portray Muslim women wearing head coverings as terrorists. As you can imagine this has caused much controversy and stress to many people across the globe.