It starts with A superhero that is blasting purple stuff from his hands at a bad guy when he misses the bad guy it makes purple blobs on the wall then when he does hit the bad guy at the end he splats into an E4 sign.
E4 is a digital tv channel which was launched pay TV companion for channel 4, it was launched on the 18th of January 2001 and is owned by the Channel Four Television Corporation. the E in the name of the channel E4 stands for entertainment. The target audience for the channel E4 is 15 to 35 year olds. The website for E4 not only just gives information about the television shows that it broadcasts but also has excusive videos and games, the games would probably appeal to their target audience as teens and some people in their 30's and older may enjoy playing them but mostly the younger side of the audience as these games seem to be created with teens in mind. Some of E4's most popular shows are The Inbetweeners, Ugly Betty, Misfits and Made in Chelsea. The show that got the most views ever (not including repeats or E4+1 showings) was the 'Will is Home Alone' episode of The Inbetweeners, The Inbetweeners is a popular show with teenagers.
my idea would be suitable for E4 because it is not serious and would probably appeal more to a younger 15-35 year old audience than it would for a tv channel like the BBC.
Tuesday, 23 October 2012
Friday, 19 October 2012
Test Shots- the sass master
Monday, 15 October 2012
The Sass Master
Name: The Sass Master
Secret Identity: Dale Sass
Age: 21
Occupation 1: Super Hero
- Saves the world with sassy comments and hand sanitiser.
Tools - Book of sassy comebacks, hand sanatiser and hand cuffs.
Occupation 2: Fashion Intern
Tools- Pencils, Paper and Fabric.
Pass times: Zumba, Kickboxing, Baking and Fighting Crime.
Wednesday, 10 October 2012
The History of Animation
Persistence of vision and Thaumatropes
Persistence of vision is a theory that says that the eye keeps an image for one twelfth of a second after its been seen this would mean everything we see is a blur of all these images together, this is thought to explain our ability to see a sequence of images of a continuous moving image.
Thaumatropes were optical toys used for entertainment, the name 'thaumatrope' means 'turning marvel' or 'wonder turner', the man who made the thaumatrope popular was Dr. John A. Paris, a physicist from London.
The theory of persistence of vision was proven wrong in 1912 and it's thought that our brain reads the two static images as movement when shown quickly in succession.
Stop Frame Animation
Stop frame animation is making a object appear to move by its self, for this to happen you take pictures of the object but each time the animator changes the position of the object slightly, this can also be done with plasticine, when it's done with plasticine this is called claymation.
Frame Rates
Frame rates are the speed of which the pictures are shown to create the illusion of movement , there are 3 main standard frame rates used in TV and Film, these are 24p, 25p and 30p if the frame rate is too low it isn't effective in showing the movement. Animation works in 2's this means that there are only 12 frames shown per second.
Phenakitiscope
The Phenakitiscope was invented by Joseph plateau in 1832, it was two discs made of paper on the same axis which had pictures on it and when spun and viewed through a mirror made an animation.
Zoetrope
A zoetrope is a device that produces the illusion of motion from a rapid succession of static pictures.
Sequential images are painted on a paper stripe. This paper stripe is put in a revolving drum. When the drum revolved people could look through the slots in the drum and have the illusion of motion.
The Zoetrope was invented by William Horner in 1834 originally called a Daedaleum.
Praxinoscope
The Praxinoscope was invented by Emile Raynaud in 1877 it worked a lot like a Zoetrope except instead of viewing the animation through a slit it had a mirror in the middle to make the viewing of the animation easier. The Praxinoscope was made with the purpose to amuse young children.
Eadwaerd Muybridge
Eadwaerd Muybridge was a British photographer who was a pioneer in the studies of motion and motion picture projecting. In 1874 he shot and killed the man his wife was cheating on him with and got away with it after the jury had decided it was justifiable.
Eadwaerd was hired to research if horses took all four hoofs off of the ground so he rigged a racecourse with 12 strings connected to 12 cameras and proved they did, but by doing this he also set off a revolution in motion photography.
Kinetiscope
The Kinetiscope, known as a "motion picture exhibition device", was designed to view films individually by looking through a peep hole. The Kinetiscope was not a projector but introduced the approach that would be standard for all cinema projecting. The Kineticsope was invented by Thomas Edison in 1888.
The Lumière Brothers
The Lumière brothers were the pioneers for early cinema and animation and invented the cinematograph. The cinematograph was a camera and a projector in on and people referred to this as animating pictures. The Lumière brothers set up a camera outside a factory and filmed people coming out of work.
George Pal
George Pal made forms of animations called 'Puppetoons' in the 1940's, Puppetoons were made of wood and in each frame the puppet would be changed, this is called replacement animation.
Pal also used animation in his live action films, an example of this was in his film "Time Machine" from 1959.
Willis O'Brien
Willis O'Brien was an Irish American motion picture special effects stop motion animation pioneer even though he didn't have a lot of success he did get awarded a Oscar for special effects in 1950. He is best known for King Kong and Mighty Joe Young and Ray Harryhausen was his inspiration.
Ray Harryhausen
Ray Harryhausen was an American special effects creator, producer and writer who created his own type of stop motion animation called 'dynamation'. It took Harryhausen a long time to film his work because he worked alone.
Jan Svankmajer
Jan Svankmajer was an czech film maker who was known for making surreal animations and was a self- labeled surrealist.
The Brothers Quay
Steven and Timothy Quay are identical twins more commonly known as 'The Brothers Quay' are well known stop motion animators, they studied at the royal college of the arts in London. They formed Konick studios in 1980, they have gone on to make several successful films such as 'The Chairs' which won them the Drama Desk Award for outstanding set design in 1998.
Tim Burton
Tim Burton was born on August 25th 1958, He makes gothic movies like Edward Scissorhands and recently Alice In Wonderland, he went to and graduated from CalArts and soon after graduating he was offered a apprenticiship working for Disney. He Also wrote the famous film 'A Nightmare Before Christmas'.
Ardman
Ardman was founded by Peter Lord and David Sproxton, they are most famous for their claymation animation style which is used for Wallace and Gromit their most well known features, their first successful claymation was morf and their first feature film was 'Chicken run'. Claymation is done by using plasticine and stop motion animation, they use about 24 frames per second. Ardman try not to refine the models too much because if they did they "may as well use computer animation".
There are many styles of Animation used, the original style of animation is the type that every frame is drawn by hand. Stop Motion animation is physically manipulating real objects and taking a still of each move frame by frame and putting them together to make it look like the object is moving. Computer Animation, this is the most recent and current form of animation because of the new technology that makes it possible a examples of where computer animation is used are, Toy Story (the first full length computer animated film) and more recently Avatar.
There are different audiences for animation, animation is generally aimed at kids and families in shows like Spongebob Squarepants, but there are also animations that have been made for teenagers and adults.
A Channel Ident is showing the name of a channel in a clip, these generally have a voice over person telling the viewer what is coming up next on that channel.
Advertising is how broadcasters other than the BBC fund their programming, the more popular the TV program the more expensive it is to put your advert on in the breaks between it.
Animated Music Videos
Some music videos are animated or have animated sequences in them, animation is sometimes used to make the impossible possible, an example of a music video which has animation in it is A-Ha's Take On Me
Persistence of vision is a theory that says that the eye keeps an image for one twelfth of a second after its been seen this would mean everything we see is a blur of all these images together, this is thought to explain our ability to see a sequence of images of a continuous moving image.
Thaumatropes were optical toys used for entertainment, the name 'thaumatrope' means 'turning marvel' or 'wonder turner', the man who made the thaumatrope popular was Dr. John A. Paris, a physicist from London.
The theory of persistence of vision was proven wrong in 1912 and it's thought that our brain reads the two static images as movement when shown quickly in succession.
Stop Frame Animation
Stop frame animation is making a object appear to move by its self, for this to happen you take pictures of the object but each time the animator changes the position of the object slightly, this can also be done with plasticine, when it's done with plasticine this is called claymation.
Frame Rates
Frame rates are the speed of which the pictures are shown to create the illusion of movement , there are 3 main standard frame rates used in TV and Film, these are 24p, 25p and 30p if the frame rate is too low it isn't effective in showing the movement. Animation works in 2's this means that there are only 12 frames shown per second.
Phenakitiscope
The Phenakitiscope was invented by Joseph plateau in 1832, it was two discs made of paper on the same axis which had pictures on it and when spun and viewed through a mirror made an animation.
Zoetrope
A zoetrope is a device that produces the illusion of motion from a rapid succession of static pictures.
Sequential images are painted on a paper stripe. This paper stripe is put in a revolving drum. When the drum revolved people could look through the slots in the drum and have the illusion of motion.
The Zoetrope was invented by William Horner in 1834 originally called a Daedaleum.
Praxinoscope
The Praxinoscope was invented by Emile Raynaud in 1877 it worked a lot like a Zoetrope except instead of viewing the animation through a slit it had a mirror in the middle to make the viewing of the animation easier. The Praxinoscope was made with the purpose to amuse young children.
Eadwaerd Muybridge
Eadwaerd Muybridge was a British photographer who was a pioneer in the studies of motion and motion picture projecting. In 1874 he shot and killed the man his wife was cheating on him with and got away with it after the jury had decided it was justifiable.
Eadwaerd was hired to research if horses took all four hoofs off of the ground so he rigged a racecourse with 12 strings connected to 12 cameras and proved they did, but by doing this he also set off a revolution in motion photography.
Kinetiscope
The Kinetiscope, known as a "motion picture exhibition device", was designed to view films individually by looking through a peep hole. The Kinetiscope was not a projector but introduced the approach that would be standard for all cinema projecting. The Kineticsope was invented by Thomas Edison in 1888.
The Lumière Brothers
The Lumière brothers were the pioneers for early cinema and animation and invented the cinematograph. The cinematograph was a camera and a projector in on and people referred to this as animating pictures. The Lumière brothers set up a camera outside a factory and filmed people coming out of work.
George Pal
George Pal made forms of animations called 'Puppetoons' in the 1940's, Puppetoons were made of wood and in each frame the puppet would be changed, this is called replacement animation.
Pal also used animation in his live action films, an example of this was in his film "Time Machine" from 1959.
Willis O'Brien
Willis O'Brien was an Irish American motion picture special effects stop motion animation pioneer even though he didn't have a lot of success he did get awarded a Oscar for special effects in 1950. He is best known for King Kong and Mighty Joe Young and Ray Harryhausen was his inspiration.
Ray Harryhausen
Ray Harryhausen was an American special effects creator, producer and writer who created his own type of stop motion animation called 'dynamation'. It took Harryhausen a long time to film his work because he worked alone.
Jan Svankmajer
Jan Svankmajer was an czech film maker who was known for making surreal animations and was a self- labeled surrealist.
The Brothers Quay
Steven and Timothy Quay are identical twins more commonly known as 'The Brothers Quay' are well known stop motion animators, they studied at the royal college of the arts in London. They formed Konick studios in 1980, they have gone on to make several successful films such as 'The Chairs' which won them the Drama Desk Award for outstanding set design in 1998.
Tim Burton
Tim Burton was born on August 25th 1958, He makes gothic movies like Edward Scissorhands and recently Alice In Wonderland, he went to and graduated from CalArts and soon after graduating he was offered a apprenticiship working for Disney. He Also wrote the famous film 'A Nightmare Before Christmas'.
Ardman
Ardman was founded by Peter Lord and David Sproxton, they are most famous for their claymation animation style which is used for Wallace and Gromit their most well known features, their first successful claymation was morf and their first feature film was 'Chicken run'. Claymation is done by using plasticine and stop motion animation, they use about 24 frames per second. Ardman try not to refine the models too much because if they did they "may as well use computer animation".
History of Animation
Animation was first about since the 19th
Century, one of the first popular animated characters was Gertie the
dinosaur. The first animation full length film was Disney’s snow white and the
seven dwarfs which came out in 1937. There are animations other than feature length
ones made as TV shows, for example Scooby-Doo.
Styles of Animation in TV and Film
There are many styles of Animation used, the original style of animation is the type that every frame is drawn by hand. Stop Motion animation is physically manipulating real objects and taking a still of each move frame by frame and putting them together to make it look like the object is moving. Computer Animation, this is the most recent and current form of animation because of the new technology that makes it possible a examples of where computer animation is used are, Toy Story (the first full length computer animated film) and more recently Avatar.
Audience of Animation
There are different audiences for animation, animation is generally aimed at kids and families in shows like Spongebob Squarepants, but there are also animations that have been made for teenagers and adults.
Channel Idents
A Channel Ident is showing the name of a channel in a clip, these generally have a voice over person telling the viewer what is coming up next on that channel.
Advertising
Advertising is how broadcasters other than the BBC fund their programming, the more popular the TV program the more expensive it is to put your advert on in the breaks between it.
Animated Music Videos
Some music videos are animated or have animated sequences in them, animation is sometimes used to make the impossible possible, an example of a music video which has animation in it is A-Ha's Take On Me
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