P2

P2: Students analyse an existing animation product.

Marking Criteria is Pass - Merit

Deadline 23rd November (end of the day)

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P2 will be leading onto P3 and P4 where students will be designing their own character for an animated production (see marking Scheme for further details).

Students are to use textual analysis. Your work should include images and text. You can also include audio visuals with commentary should you want to for animation clips/sequences (Essentially a voice over while analysing a film/TV clip). This is optional.

Project Task

You can copy this onto your blog and fill in the information using text and image.

Students to analyse one existing animation product. Students must include the following information;

a) Genre

• This would be: comedy, horror, super here, children or?

• Within the examples explain what makes it a particular genre, i.e props, costumes, narrative.

b) Individual animators

• Research... who they are? what projects they worked on? Use the movie database like IMDB.

c) Production process

• Pre Production, Production & Post Production.

• Find examples of one animation. Maybe look at an episode and sample using images how it’s made. 

d) Narrative/storyline

• Synopsis of storyline and its appeal to the audience.

e) Target audience

• By age, gender, interests, demographics, psychographics, geographic etc. 

f) Characters/stars (voice)

• Their appeal to target audience, star voice overs, guest appearances, character animation.

g) Learners analyse and compare a range of animation products produced by UK and international animation companies. Students should use (a) to (f) criteria and analyse 3 products in total to obtain a Merit.

To help you with Research

Most Film/TV shows have their own websites however students can also use the following to gather their information;

IMDB;https://www.imdb.com

WIKI: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

DVD covers of any production has relative information and credits.

Top animated movies

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/top/bestofrt/top_100_animation_movies

Festivals include; 

http://www.liaf.org.uk

Annecy Animation festival France: https://www.annecy.org/home

Comic Con - America: https://www.comic-con.org/cci

Some Examples are;

1. 'The Simpsons' TV series for age group 12+ (in reality mostly for adults) - created by Matt Groening. American Production.

Aired on Fox: https://www.fox.com/the-simpsons/


2. Peppa Pig - Children's animation for ages 2 years and older. British Production

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAOtE1V7Ots4DjM8JLlrYgg


3. Star Wars: The clone Wars animated series. Age group 12+. American Production.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars:_The_Clone_Wars_(2008_TV_series)


4. Toy Story (any Pixar animated movie) - CGI target age 2+ and family. American Production.

https://www.pixar.com/

5. Brown Bag Animation - an Irish animation  company. https://www.brownbagfilms.com/

Marking Criteria

PASS	MERIT
Learners analyse an existing animation product, including: a) genre b) individual animators c) production process d) narrative/story-line e) target audience f ) characters/stars	Learners analyse and compare a range of animation products produced by UK and international animation companies. Ensure you are looking at a global market.