Animation Task

To develop our skills within making films and using the equipment we would for filming our Short film, myself and Abigail created a few animations. As we are following conventions and also creating Idents, this will essentially help us for when we come to create them also, and may even choose to create an animation as the Ident.

Our first animation enabled us to quickly pick up the basic skills of using a camera and how they work, introduced elements such as continuity into our filming, meaning we had to plan each step before we did it, and constantly ensure each shot lead on to the next (background stays in the same position and each part of the snowman melting fits onto the next). Showing we had to think about more than one aspect of the film at once, something we will need to be good at before filming our final film, to avoid any errors when making it and essentially saving time.

Our second animation is my personal favourite. Before making this animation we had to plan before filming it, another aspect we will have to do for our final film. Continuity had to be kept within the animation also to make sure each shot lead onto the next. We also added music to this Animation, learning not only about how to include music onto films but what sort of music you should choose to reflect the genre, in this case a playful happy song.