First Animation Test Review

I recently created my first animation test using Adobe Flash as our final peice will be animated and we are yet to decide from the many methods of animation which we are going to use. Flash proved to be a worthy comptetitor and although it had a harsh learning curve and took me a while to get used to the controls and getting to programme to produce the outcome that I was picturing in my head. The outcome was of a very good quality and has flexible settings to control the specifications of the final product such as; dimensions, which gives me an easy way to test animations without exporting them to full size, but also maxamise the quality for the final product, as with framerate and quality settings, file type customisablity also ensures that I can export to any platform and distribute it easyily. The short animation I produced was very short and was not to my best ability as I was only recently aquainted with the programme, yet, it was still of high quality therefor I know that with more time and mroe knowledge put into it, this method could have an exellent outcome. So overall Flash is definatley a strong option to consider and I'll be doing further tests with this programme to familiarise myself with it.

First Animation Test

Analysis of existing products and influences

When deciding the main structure of our OTS we looked at many different opening sequences and the different styles that were out there and that were successful. 'Bagpuss' is a personal favourite of mine from my child hood and we especially liked the voiceover style in it; the introduction of the characters, the setting and the situation. This is one of our style models and one of our influences for our piece.

Our music style we want to be very simple, similar to that of 'Bagpuss', we want to combine it with the more modern style of the music heard in the background of this 'Peppa Pig' intro. We want to find a tempo between the two and a simple but modern melodic tune to have behind our voice over. More detail on the music on Hannah's blog here.

After previously looking at all the different kinds of animation used in children's TV programmes we decided to go for a more simplistic look, with simple block colours similar to in this 'Humf' intro. We also decided to use lighter, more diluted colours in our piece rather than the bright colours in these trailers. We posted more detail about our animating style on Hannah's blog here.

Defining Target Audience

In our group we have decided that our target audience is going to be children of ages 1-4 and of both genders. We came to this conclusion through looking at the style of product we were interested in creating and similar existing pieces. We understand that viewers not in our specific target audience may watch the show, but it is important to have our target audience in mind when creating our product, so we are able to cater to suit their needs specifically. This is why we have chosen a quite small age range (1-4). We feel if we try to broaden this (e.g. 1 - 7) our audience will possibly have conflicting needs and we could therefore not meet the needs of all our audience members if they conflict heavily. We feel that trying to appeal to both genders however isn't such an issue. We looked at some examples of existing programmes and their target audiences which is posted over on her blog.

Brief Pitch

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Market Research: Show Format.

The 'format' of a show would be judged by 3 things, the target audience, the length of the episodes, and the level of interactivity. These key factors will determine how the show is read, which, as the creators is something we need to think about and be very aware of, Hannah has looked more deeply and explained this on her blog.