This as the post below is the mock up of my DVD cover. Yet again the text font has changed and so has the alinment of the text. The back text in this needs some editing to make it more drama like but i am overly happy with the cover. The monkey (Micky) is larger as he is to stand out and be reconizable to younger children. The colours on the back are quite dark however i will change this as i go. At the back on the bottom of the dvd cover i need to fill it with something as it looks more empty - i will research more on DVD's before i decide.

This is a mock up of the magazine cover, the ideas i had to create this i took from other programmes such as Balamory and Mr maker. Sadly from when i have taken it from the Macs to this computer the font has changed and the text has become horizontal however to start with it was at a angle.
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This was the first go at my magazine. Creating the colours which i have choosen have followed a theme through out. I really like the monkey being small as his whole body fits in, however the only difference now is that i have a lot of space to fill - and i have learnt from last year that to catch the audience's eye it need to be big. However my argument to this is that the children are the audience and they will see there favourite character however i need to change it to work out how to develop my idea..

this is the still image of my piece. This is a image i got off microsoft word's clip art!

This is my animation. I am happy with the way it went as it was my first attempt. Now i have started my project i can now go on to making the covers of my magazine!!

Audiences.

What have a learnt from my audience feedback?


- asking many younger children what they thought of there favour programmes many choose Balamory and Mr Maker. Both of these are story based and creative.

- Children's programmes they enjoy are short and interactive

- Programmes such as Balamory refresh the mind of the children at the end of programme.


From the feedback i have learnt that i want to base programme on Balamory in the story telling way.

Why?

The reason why i want to do this is because Balamory is a childrens programme which is very popular to younger children. Balamory uses drama within stories to keep the children intested.

I thought using the Macs to start my animation was a great success!
Using them wasn't as difficult as i thought and i followed my story board as best i could - however i added i few extra things in to pad it out. The iCanAnimate software was easy to follow and it was easy to remove or duplicate slides.
The original animate will be shortly followed.

After story boarding my ideas it was time to get to work.

I knew that my programme would be a make it programme as well as a learning drama - i decided this from watching several episodes of Mr Maker for research. (As mentioned further down in the blog) Mr Maker is a children's creative programme, i took my ideas from him as i know that children like to be creative.

Using things such as pipe cleaners, pom-poms, sequins and beads worked out what i needed for my opening sequence to work. Using the Macs and iCanAnnimate is a new set of software for me as i haven't ever used it before as last year for my preliminary project i did the magazine question as i thought this would be the strongest question for me to answer. However this year i stepped out of my comfort zone to master the art of film making.

The next post i will do is summing up what i thought of my day of filming..

Story Boarding!!

To motivate myself to get moving towards using the Macs and the filming which i had never done before i drafted a few ideas of a story board down. Even though i knew what i wanted my production to be like in my head getting it down on paper was a lot harder than i expected. Having to weigh up whether the idea would work and if we had to resources meant i struggled getting ideas down. Finally i created the idea of which would be ..

'Come and Plays Opening Sequence'

My Story Board :)!

even though this is a rough story board i knew what i wanted to. The background of my animation is going to be a purple colour through out. Each of the things which i have shown here are going to be made out of products - this is because i want it to keep in nature of the 'creative' programme.