Compare and contrast Jaydon with a character from a similar U or PG film.

Jaydon is a friendly horse made out of placticine.  He is made of many different colours and has many different friends. He dreams of becoming a magical unicorn. 

Gromit Is a friendly dog made of clay. He is one of the stars of Wallace and Gromit. Although he can't speak. He has good intentions and gets in many adventures.

They are both similar because they are both well know animals  that little children could reconise easily (horse and dog). They are also both made out of a material that can be sculpted in to a cartoon character. They are both friendly creatures and have good intentions and are very kind and caring in there ways. They are both admired by there friends and look after there friends also. The set that they are placed in are both colorful and engaging to there audience. They are both also memorable characters because of the way they are made and how they bring the audience into there world. They both don't look like animation but like a real life character in a film. 

They contrast because Jaydon is multi-coloured and that makes him look more non-realistic, but this made him more appealing to children. Gromit is the same dog like colours and has all the characteristics of a dog. Jaydon is more of a cartoon representation and Gromit is more of dog representation. Gromit is also more of a side-kick and has a fellow main character his best friend Wallace. Jaydon is the main main character. 

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What our target audience can learn from our film

Children can learn different morals throughout the film for example they help Jeydon follow his dream of becoming a unicorn. This shows two important things, the first of which is how important friendship is. the children can learn that helping others is a big part of friendship. The second is that it is important to follow your dreams and make your dreams come true. By using unicorns and bright colours it is teaching the children to have a creative mind.
Another moral conveyed in our film is teamwork, for example, the friends all play a little part to help their friend Jeydon fulfill his dream of becoming a unicorn.

our opinions

We are first of all happy with the whole of our film, we feel it is a real achievement. The music we felt was one of the things we were more happy with as the music we picked fit really well with our movie. The music was upbeat and happy perfect for little children.  Another thing we were really happy with was the camera angles we used. At first we thought that these would be quite hard to use in i-stop motion but we think they worked really well and put across the messages we wanted to put across to our target audience. We were also happy with our characters, we all had to go away and make our own character and we feel that they again were perfect for both our genre and target audience.

We are unhappy with only a few things. The first thing we are disappointed with was that we left out a piece of dialogue. When pauline is talking about a horse she once knew we forget to say about the map she goes and gets and so she just randomly goes and get a map. We don't think it shall effect the story line to much but it might if an older person is watching it. Another thing we need to improve on is the editing going from I-stop to final cut, because the pictures were so short it was hard to cut out a mistake where as if we would have noticed our mistake on I-stop it would have been much easier. We have one moment where it goes black (just for a second) because it was very difficult to edit. We also have some shots that are darker than others but this could not be helped as we did not have the appropriate equipment to light our woodland set.


Overall we are very happy with the quality and turn out of our video.

Overall we are very happy with our movie. 

Children's Film

This is our children's film movie! 

Last Day of Editing.

The first thing we did was added the diagetic sounds to our piece such as walking on leaves. This took us less time than we had anticipated making us on track for the rest of the things that we have to do.
We have already found the music we want to include in the sound track it is now just a matter of putting it all in the right place.
We are going to swap the movie from final cut to garage band to make things easier and more precise.

Next we added effects to it. We want to make the part where Jayden day dreams of being a unicorn in black and white or sepia to make it look more dream like.
We found an effect called dazzle which made our dream like effect look even better as it was sparkly.
We also found a ripple dissolve transition that also made our piece look dream like and really emphasizes that it is a dream and makes it clear and understandable to little children.

Next we moved on to adding the soundtrack in garage band. This will allow us to add non-diagetic sounds to our children's film. This is also taking a lot less time than we thought.

We have now finished. Overall we think it is really good and are really proud of the work we have created.

Check list for monday.

We are fairly worried about not finishing in time so i thought i would make us a check list of things we still need to do so we don't waste 5 mins in between each thing wondering what we need to do next.

- We need to put in the naturalistic diagetic sound effects that jade and molly made outside.
- We need to add our non-diagetinc music that we have created.
- We need then just to check that it all runs smoothly and make sure we haven't missed any bits that have things like hands in.
- If time add some transitions to make it look more professional.

Then we should be finished :)