Final Piece

For our final stop motion animation we had to design an ident for the television programme e4. When we researched e4, we found that their highest viewed programmes were comedy, so we tried to reflect that in our ident. The story in our ident was a kind of a poke/ play fight going on between two people. At first we decided to do it in black and white, but when we pitched it to our teachers they thought it was a better idea for us to make ourselves black and white using face paint. We looked at the film Blade runner, as a character from the film portrays the idea of the black and white face paint. 

We filmed the stop motion at Olivia's house on Wednesday the 6th October. The filming went quiet well and the costumes went to plan.

Overall we thought our ident was successful once edited. If we had to do it again we would have used a tripod when filming so the animation would have gone more smoothly. We thought the costumes and face paint worked well. We also thought that our idea targeted the right audience (age group 15-24). 

Out of all our idents we made this was the most successful, it was edited better and the idea was portrayed the best. Our Mop ident wasn't successful, it could have been done n live action because we used a string to pull the mop around. Although this ident could have been done in live action we thought it was best in stop motion so the e4 signs could just appear and it gives a more jumpy effect that goes with the effect of the face paint. 

After a group discussion, feedback was given. Our ident could of been made better if we portrayed the black and white costume more. Like covered our whole body in face paint instead of just the face, and made our hair big and just  generally dressed up more. 

Moodboard

This is the moodboard for the e4 project. It was completed by collecting together a few pictures from the e4 programme, i.e shows or the adverts, and placing them all together on one piece of paper.

Mine and Lil's e4 Ident

Storyboard

After our original storyboard wasn't so successful, we created this one. Unlike the other, this one seems to be more realistic and we think it could work well.
The basic idea of our ident is me and lil are sitting together and a poking war starts up, but every time one pokes the other, an e4 logo appears. Eventually, it turns in to a sort of play fight.

When we pitched the idea to Jack and Darren and they both thought it was a good idea but we could make it look better by dressing up in to a kind of black and white theme. They also suggested us to look at the films blade runner and and pacific part of chitty chitty bang bang to help us with our animation.

This is a picture of one of the characters in blade runner that Darren and Jack suggested we should dress up like. We was going to have the video set to black and white and the e4 logo in colour but using black and white face paint and clothes could look more entertaining.

The doll scene in chitty chitty bang bang is also another costume idea we could look at for our e4 ident.

Storyboard

     This is the story board for our first idea on the e4 ident which turnt out to be unsuccessful. We did not really think through how we we're going to make it succed and did not carefully plan it out.