Mouth movements

Set designs

Health and Safety

Health and Safety

Risk	Potential danger	How the problem can be avoided
Illness	n/a	This cannot be avoided, it will just put back time, therefore if I am ill, I will have to work extra hard over the next few days to catch up
Wire used for the structure of the characters	The wire is sharp and could potentially cut the skin	The wire will be placed somewhere where it cannot pierce the skin, and when it is in use I will make sure that it does not face me and I will not hold the ends, only the sides.
Tripping	Tripod	The legs of the tripod stick out, and could either cause someone to trip over or the camera and the tripod could fall and break, there isn't an exact way to resolve this from occurring, just to be very careful when standing near the tripod

Character Designs

Production Log

15/10/15- I have thought about three different story lines
16/10/15- I have researched previous animations to get some ideas on what I would like my animation to look like. (Secondary Research)
17/10/15- I made a questionnaire to see what my audience would be interested in, I have now decided which story I will be using for my animation. (Primary Research)
19/10/15- I decided which equipment I will be using and during the filming and during the post production.
20/10/15- Today I have written out my script
25/10/15- I have planned out my set designs, tomorrow I will draw them out.
26/10/15- I have drawn out my set designs
27/10/15- I have structured out a contingency plan
28/10/15- Today I will be considering the health and safety issues that might occur during the production
5/11/15- I continued building my set design
10/11/15- I continued building my set design
17/11/15- Today I started to paint my set
20/11/15- I continued to paint my scenes and started filming 
24/11/15- I started to draw out the mouths for my characters and began editing the images that I already have
26/11/15- I recorded my sounds for my mouth movements
29/11/15- I will finish filming my last scenes, and I will get my Dad to narrate my animation. 
30/11/15- I have finished my animation, now I will upload my animation to youtube

Contingency Plan

There are several things that could potentially go wrong during or after this production. I have to make sure that I can avoid problems occurring and making sure I always have a plan B so my animation will still run smoothly.

My initial plan was to create a Claymation Stop Motion Animation, based on my third concept. I attempted to use a green screen however, During the filming I realised that I would much prefer a background which could be present in the filming and I thought that it would be too time consuming to edit thousands of photographs together with the same background. 

I have had to consider that the Characters may break or fall apart during the filming, therefore if this does happen I will need to replace them so they do not disfigure, I will create extra body parts and heads incase this happens.

The camera battery may also run out, therefore as I have two batteries I am going to charge them both fully, so they can be replaced when one runs out, as well as having my charger at the ready.

Primary Research

Primary Research-

Questionnaire- https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/KWQQMYZ

My responses support my ideas, and it has helped me to come to a conclusion about my what I would like to base my stop motion on. My first question was about what style of stop motion would interest my audience the most? Over 65% said Claymation and the rest said people.

My second question was what genre is most preferred? 50% said comedy where the over 30% stated that horror/thriller was their favourite and the rest said romance. I would like to base my animation on a horror animation. The results have proven to me that horror isn’t my audiences’ favourite genre but it is still an interest to them.

My third question was based around the sound, half of my audience stated ‘other’, and responded that all three of the sounds above should be used to make an animation good. This was exactly what I had hoped for as I had all intentions to make an animation with the use of all three sounds.

My fourth question was a rhetorical question, which I wanted personal answers for, after reading through my responses I now know what to do in my animation to make it good and interesting for my viewers.

The last question was specifically based around my third concept. The result has proven to me that everyone would be interested in a Halloween style animation, and therefore this is what I will be doing my animation on.