Kick Me!

This is our final piece. But we feel it is unfinished as we ran out of time in the editing process.

Take Two - filming

During our re-filming of one of the scenes we feel it was suited better to our film as the misty weather made it look more 'mysterious' we also had better costumes and the 'farmer' was better suited to his role and made easier to establish between the characters. The re shooting did not take long however we had to work around the construction equipment that was being used in the next field and the school buildings that may have been in the back of the shot. However we changed the location of the shoot slightly and we managed to void all the buildings an still keep the 180o rule intact.

The Process Of Filming.....

Our filming went well , the shots were relatively easy to do although whilst using the dolly the shots were not as smooth as we would have liked. We did however come across the issue of the audio and video being out of sync, therefore having to re-shoot part of the video.
The location went well as we were able to move from and urban area to a rural area without having to leave the college grounds, but we did encounter troubles with the 180 degree rule as we had to avoid the construction buildings and the college buildings, this is also reason for us to re-shoot this part of our film.
We also hanged our mind on how some of the shots would be taken, at first we decided for our main character to be tripped over in the hall this was then changed to outside to allow for extension of the scene.

Kick me

We have progressed in our development of our childrens film, which means we have altered some of the ideas we initially had.

Firstly our film is now titled "kick me", this is to illustrate the amount of bullying our character suffers and is a typical form of bullying (to stick a kick me sign on someone). Rather than finding a watch and this being the way of traveling in time, we have decided to grant our character with a special power. When he tries to repress or ignore the bullies he automatically jumps back in time. Unfortunately , he cant always control how far back he goes. This is the new twist to our film, he jumps back to the 1940's. We feel this has opened up more options for us to play with mise-en-scene and editing within our film.

films and TV programs that have influenced us to do something like this within our film are Good night sweetheart; although not a childrens film, its content shows a man traveling back to the '40s. Also 'Bill and Teds bogus adventure' where they travel back in time and get stuck. this again is not necessarily a childrens film, but apeals to a younger generation than 'Good night sweetheart'

tock tick

We have chosen to base our childrens film on a childrens TV show from our childhood called "Bernard's watch". This show (as stated in the title) is about a boy who finds a watch, this watch enables him to stop time and resolve any misfortune he faces. We have chosen to follow a similar theme but update it to a more modern version.



The basic story of our Film is that our main character is being bullied at school. After being bullied for too long, whilst walking home, he finds a watch. Unbeknown to him the watch he finds is able to reverse time. He will use this ability to his advantage as he will now be able to avoid or reverse the bullying he suffers, unintentionally at first. But he soon learns how to control this power and can "fight back" to the bullies.

Analysis of 'The Indian in the Cupboard' opening title sequence.

The use of the soundtrack establishes the genre to be fantasy, adventure. The soundtrack is non diagetic, and over lays introductory images of possible characters. the introduction to the characters is progressive, beginning with "litefoot" the main character and gradually introducing the rest of the characters. this finalizes with a village/community scene which might imply a narrative meaning. Because the plastic figures are seen holding weapons this film may be rated PG; which may also suggest the genre to also be family. The simple soundtrack uses instruments to simulate the culture of native Americans (Indians) thus linking with the film title. Throughout the sequence you see the names of the production company, Director, Casting director and the main characters. This a very simple but effective opening sequence, which would be easy to replicate with amateur facilities.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQX2j-fOJyA

Preliminary Task