J&J Media

I'm Jade and I will be keeping this blog  to keep you update with mine and John's (J&J Media's) progress with our latest project! Our first creation as a team is going to be a 10 minute short film. It was the first day of planning today we got straight into brainstorming ideas, we immediately decided that we wanted to do an animation, for a number of reasons;

1) When casting only looking for the right voice rather than a list of things.

2) Don't have to spend any of our budget on actors or use untrained actors ending in poor results.

3) Gives us more scope to be creative as we can do things you can't do for real e.g. personify inanimate

    objects. 

Then it was on to how we will animate as there are many different kinds of animation;

Cel-Shaded Animation

Clay Animation (Claymation)

Computer Animation

Regular Animation

We decided to go for claymation but are yet to still make the decision on whether to use stop motion or a programme called puppet tool on which you can take stills of puppets and use pin points make them move. John and I choose claymation as it has an authentic look and is more 3D than regular animation, also by moulding the clay you can make any shape, object or facial expression you like! 

We also spoke about genre, we wanted to pick a genre in which the stereotypes and characteristics are so specific so that we could use them to our advantage and play about with them, we decided on the western genre as it has so many icons and themes, it gives us so much to work with. 

And that was as far as we got! I'll leave you with this claymation clip, enjoy!