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Evidence planning for sound for animation

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Evidence planning for sound for animation

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When doing the sound for our animation it was decided that i would do the voice over of our ident.
When planning this we made sure that the text that i was reading was simple enough for the audience to understand every word and that i was speaking in a clear enough voice in order to them to understand as well.
We practise many times making sure my tone of voice was correct and that i was speaking at the right pace so it was understandable.
We also had to get the text with the timing right so that what i was saying went with what we happening on the screen, this took a few times to get just to how we wanted and how we wanted it to sound over the ident.
Once we had done all these things and took everything into consideration within the practise then we could record for our final voice over which was then used for our final ident.

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For my initial research of TV idents i looked at different idents in order to come up with a idea own our ident that we was creating.
Channel 4 was something i looked up with idents and that i didn't really want to use their style as it could be quite jokey and thats not what we was looking for in our ident as it was for a charities website.
BBC was the best one where i feel the music they use sets the tone and thats what i then took from these and used for our own ident, that the music sets the tone of what is going on in front of the viewer and that they feel the emotion that the character does.

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As a group we had our idea set out and what we wanted to have done for our finished production. We knew we was going to use either cut out animation or claymation, we used claymation after doing a couple of practise runs with the cut out and it didn't work to how we wanted it too. However we decided to try and put both together so that our man in our production is made of clay so that we could move him about easier so he could do the things we wanted him to do and that we used cut out too stick to his face so that the audience could see the emotion coming from the character.
This worked very well and hence why we used it, we made a few different clay men and used the one which stuck together the best and that made the movements we wanted look the smoothest and most life like

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You need to ensure your diary log covers the list below (highlight the key words in your diary log) :
Unit 4 – GC3

Planning: agreed production roles; job allocation; task definitions and deadlines; agreed content outline within proposal; preliminary and regular team meetings; agendas and minutes; proposed schedules; logistics, eg personnel, equipment, locations, additional facilities, additional resources; contingency, eg resources backup, logistics backup; time frame for project maturity; risk assessments

Production management: pre-production phase; production phase; post-production phase; project management techniques, eg spreadsheet, dedicated software, agile methods, scrums; team and individual performance; contingency plans for staffing and resources; monitoring and reviewing; problem solving; prioritisation; crisis management; quality control; meeting submission dates; modifications after completion

Product: technical and aesthetic qualities; realisation of proposal; fitness for purpose, eg audience, commissioning organisation or agency, client

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Tom could you please update the review of your pre-production processes. The areas where you need to cover are:
1. Your initial research into TV idents outlining your secondary research
2. Why you chose to use Claymation - what experimentation you did with cut-out, object animation, object animation, white board? why did you use clay mation?
3. Production schedule needs submitting
4. evidence of planning sound for animation
5. work sheet on constraints of production and audience research

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October-Middle of November

We was given a assignment brief to create a ident for The Local Essex Offer, there was aspect we had to cover in order to create this production from the pre production stuff down to the filming of the production itself.

We started by coming up with what type of stop motion we was going to use, we came up with the idea of using claymation, this is because we thought it would be the easiest way to get our character to do what we wanted it too do. We also thought that claymation would fit with our target audience more which was 16-25 years old and would be more engaging for them and would be allow them to be more interested in the ident.

Firstly we started by coming up with our storyline, we done this by comparing the ideas we both had and then ultimately come up with the storyline for the ident we then created. We come up with the idea we would created a character called Alex, we would show that he was upset and needed help and show to the audience that The Local Essex Offer will provide help for him and that they will help people with the struggles they have in there life.

In order for our production to fall into place we had to do our pre production paperwork; this included the budget, management and roles, storyboarding etc.

We also created questionnaires for our audience so that we could find out more about what they knew about the charity and what they would like to see in the ident we were creating. From the questionnaires it provided us with information that was needed for the ident because it helped us to understand what the people who where going to view the ident want.

Throughout the pre production process we covered all things that needed to be covered in order for the production to come together as a whole these things are; budget, timescales, management and roles, contingency plan, health and safety, production schedule.

The things that I covered was contingency plan, production schedule, health and safety and budget. I covered these things for the production but also for the pitch we had to give to Annette who is a big part of The Local Essex Offer.

For the budget I made sure that I knew for the team how much everything would cost to create the production and that how much they would cost as a whole. While doing this I also made sure I added the price of the contingency plan on top so we knew if we had to go back and use the contingency plan we would know much it would cost An example of knowing what things were going to cost indivually was that a camaera operator would cost £500 pounds for one day so we then knew if we needed one for more than one day it would add £500 to the budget cost and so on if we needed someone for a set amount of days

For health and safety I made sure that all elements were
covered when it came to this topic. I made sure that me and my partner Ella
both knew what dangers there were in the area we was working in and a way
around them and to avoid them. I also got with this contact numbers of both
members of the team so that if someone was injured or hurt throughout any part
of the process then someone like a close friend or family could be called to be
informed of what has happened to either of us.

An example of this would have been the lighting that we were
going to use for our production, because of the filming of the stop motion is
quite a long process then the lights that are lighting up the set and so get
very hot as they are on for long periods of time and cannot be turned off
because it may come up in the production and not make it look how we wanted it.
To avoid anyone getting burnt by this we made it very clear within the team the
danger of this and made sure we didn’t put ourselves in a position to be
injured or hurt by this and also made sure anyone around us also knew about
this danger and that they were also fully aware of it and was careful.

Production schedule
was set up so that me and Ella knew what we wanted to be done and when by. This
came into play with every piece of the production we did, we knew we had a time
to have it done by so it allowed us to move on to the next part of the
production. It also helped because then we knew we had to have all the pre
production elements completed before actually moving on to filming the
production.

Having a schedule allowed things to run smoother and allowed
both of us to know when certain things needed to be done, things like this
included the story boards, dope sheet, primary research, secondary research,
draw up of our characters and set.

Contingency plan was put in place in case something went
wrong throughout the production then we knew we had something to fall back on
and that the whole production would not fall apart if the one thing went wrong
in the production. We knew exactly what we wanted our production to be but had
a another idea to fall back on if the production we wanted to create couldn’t be
possible, some of the main factors we had a back up plan for was the character that
was created for our ident, we knew that we may have a problem with the movement
we wanted to character to make and made a second character so that we could use
it if it didn’t go to how it went to plan.

One thing that I was did was I was the one who drew up the
character we was going to create and the set that we were going to use. I did
this because we felt as a team I had the more imaginative side to the team and
therefore use that to create the character and the set we were going to use. I
did this by drawing up different ideas and then discussing as a team what one
we thought we going to work best and what set we thought would look best for
the character. Once that was done we had more of a outline to creating the set
and character to how we wanted it.
Throughout the whole process of the pre production we kept a team meeting minutes, to decide what we was going to do and complete by the end of the day, we completed these before every lesson to ensure it was clear what needed to be done for that day in order to move on in the pre production process.
Mid November- Late November/Early December

After the preproduction we then had to finalise pieces in order for the production to start.

To do this we spent part of our day in the animation room in order to get things ready for the next day we started filming. I was building our character for the production and making sure that it would be able to do the movements we wanted in the production. I came up with a few characters and we picked one that we thought suited our production the best.

The set was very simple as we knew what we wanted for the production, this is something we worked on as a pair. Ella had photos had she had taken in her spare time, so as a pair we sat down we worked through which one we wanted to use and edited it to how we wanted the scenery to look like. Once we had decided what we wanted we was ready for the next day for filming the production.

The first day of production, we set up the setting of the ident and also got the character and the other pieces we needed in place ready to start, we set up the lighting to how we wanted it for the production before we start to make sure the setting and character looked how we wanted for the ident and that they was easy to see on the camera and that is wasn't too dark or too light. Ella was moving the character and i was taking the frames, that we how we had it set up for the first day of filming the production, it ran smoothly and we got quite a bit of the production done towards the final product.

Unfortunately i was not in for the second day of filming as i was ill so i had no part in the finishing off of the production.

After the production was finished itself we still had things that needed to be done before the editing was done. We had to record the voice over which i did, ella recorded from her iPad as i read from the script that i created. After this was done it was now done to piecing the production together. Again i was not in on the day of editing so that was done by Ella.

I realise that missing days did not help the production and put pressure of the other member of my team to keep things going even if i wasn't in. I now know that missing days can affect the whole production and it may not be as good as the potential that it had too be.

I still had the information to provide information for a slide show to show Vanessa and Annette our ident and the preproduction process that i had done. With this feedback i got from them and the class themselves i was then able to write up my report on the ident as a whole.