Our Childrens film opening sequence.

The opening sequnce that we have created for our own childrens film follows many of the conventions of a typical opening for a film aimed at 5-11 year olds. It also mixes live action and stop motion animation, a theme that was quite consistent of childrens films from the past. It begins with the live action, setting the scene and showing our main character drawing out side. we incorperate many shots, including tracking of the surroundings to set the scene, and zooms, tracks, over the shoulder shots and closeups to introduce our main human character. The chracter is drawing and he scrunches up the paper and throws it to the ground. we then had several shots of the paper landing, as well as tracking in slowly untill it fills the screen. its after this that the opening titles appear, and these are all filmed in stop motion. it includes the peice of papaer raveling and un-raveling by itself, with names appearing on it. This scene also serves to introduce the fictional characters of the pupkin man, the witch, and the clown creature, all of which appear at certain points and move around the paper. the film has not yet been edited, but we have several ideas for what we are going to do in terms of effects and music.

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