Review of the Children's film

"world of lego" was created by naomi, hayley, emma and charlotte.
We believe that the elements that made our film effective were the fact it was stop motion, colourful and contained moments of slap stick comedy. The bit of the sequence we are happiest with is when the twins are fighting as it was done very smoothly, therefore looked effective.
When using stop motion we used a variety of camera angles which also added a feel of reality.

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- Conventions of an opening sequence:
credits 
- good. clever way of introducing credits. 
- a little too fast so couldn't read all of them but was a                             good idea

- Specific genre conventions: 

- Fantasy; use of dream

- Comedy; use of slap stick

- Variety and quality of camera work:

- Gave scene good effect. Could be more stable in some places for us

- to understand better what's going on.

- Use of special effects/ animation :

- Lego gave good effect - clever

- Intro was very good and effective

- Sound Quality and effect:

- Music good

- Used appropriate sound effects.

- Use of mise en scene:

Setting and props: Good

- Editing

-Fast Forward + rewind was effective

- Best Features:

- Credits

- Lego animation and camera work

Studio Logo

Emnahach stands for the first two letters of our names, Emma, Naomi, Hayley and Charlotte and the lightbulb in the background represents our bright ideas as a unit.

Preliminary Task - Emma, Naomi, Hayley, Charlotte.

Fantasy

Never-Ending Story: Directed by Wolfgang Peterson

Never-Ending Story is about a young boy called Bastian who is being tormented by some other kids in his class and this one time he decides to head for cover in an old book shop where he notices a really interesting book. he runs to school and hides in a room and dives straight in to the fantasy world of Fantasia we see creatures from racing snails to a flying dragon and we follow a boy named Atreyu and his trusty horse Artex who are trying to save the moon child-child like empress from death then by the end Bastian realises he is the only one who can save them. this film also has sub genres like adventure this film is good for children as it has a nice storyline for children to understand and has some nice characters. 

Star Wars Episode IV A New Hope:Directed by George Lucas

Star wars is about two sides the rebel alliance (good) and the empire (bad) who are fighting each other and have been fighting 19 years scene the begining of the empire which is under the reign of Darth Sidious an evil sith lord but we dont know about him until episode 5 the film starts with the tavine v (rebel alliance) being attacked by a star destroyer (empire) one of the main characters princess leia organa who is on the ship and she decides to hide the plans to the death star in a droid and send them down to the planet below which makes us ask questions then we get introduced to another main character the evil sith lord Darth Vader who is trying to get the plans to the death star back where they belong he kills people where ever he goes on the ship asking about the plans then someone notices one of the escape pods has been relised then you see the droids and they are with a young man called luke skywalker who is also a main character he lives with his aunt and uncle as he belives his father was killed and his mum is dead he has always wished to run away and fight for the rebel aliance but cant as his uncle needs him at home one of the droids runs away as he wants his former master an obi-wan kenobi who fort in the clone wars luke goes of with c3po to find r2d2 they find him but get attacked by tuskan radiers but then they are saved by a misterious figure obi-wan kenobi whi asks luke to join him on helping the pricess but he says he cant the goes home to find his family are dead and decieds to go with kenobi to alderan there they need a piolot and they find chewbaca and han solo the flight the famous milleniun falcon they find that alderan has be blowen up and see a space station they find where the princess is and go to save here whitles obi-wan goes to disable the tractor beam and relises he must do something else they find the pricess and save her then luke sees obi-wan and obi-wan is fightting his old appretice Darth Vader. Vader strikes him down and luke screams they filght away to the rebel base and vader has put a tracking device on the ship and they now know where the base is they both plan to attack each other but the rebles win.    
-Naomi

Sci-Fi sub-genre - Monsters Vs Aliens

When California girl Susan Murphy is unexpectedly clobbered by a meteor full of outer space gunk, she mysteriously grows to 49-feet-11-inches tall and is instantly labeled a "monster" named Ginormica. The military jumps into action, and she is captured and held in a secret government compound. As a last resort, under the guidance of General W.R. Monger (on a desperate order from The President), the motley crew of Monsters is called into action to combat the aliens and save the world from imminent destruction.
>Story Type
Fits the classic five stage structure: exposition, development,complication, climax and resolution. 
>Sound
Lots of non-diegetic adventure music, technological beeps. 
>Editing
Montage editing with quick invisible cuts linked theme of characters and vague plot.
>Camera Work
Lots of tracking, tilting and panning shots following action and aiding comedic sequences.
>Location and Sets
Houses and sets look very realistic, although things like faces and bodies conform to the plump shapes that are used the plump animated plasticine characters. Located in idillic village, shown by houses and countryside. Set in an inventors house, shown by use of contraptions e.g. giant hammer/ cogs and pipes.
>Themes
Happy smiley, active trailer, use of short comedic sequences set the common children's conventional use of humour.
>Props
The set has many pops used for comedic and plot use, e.g. giant hammer/ cogs and pipes, there is also use of cars and other inventions, the giant puppet lady-rabbit which also aids this.