Evaluation of Foundation Production

Toy Story

Year of release: 22nd March 1996

Director: John Lasseter

Genre: Animation/Adventure/Comedy

Summary of what happens in the opening 2-5 minutes: All of the toys are being played with, when Andy leaves the room they all come alive and start doing their own things. you see that Andy is moving as many of his things are being boxed.

Locations: there are many locations in the openeing of this film but it is mainly based around Andy's room as this is where all of the toys are kept.

Characters: Woody, Buzz, Hamm, Rex, Slinky, Mr Potato head, Army men.

Enigma Codes: It raises the question will they will make it or not and be left behind as Andy is moving house.

Cinematography and the effects: CGI is used as the whole film is animated.

Editing techniques and their effects: The effects that are used are CGI and tight cutting along with sound mixing.

Use of sound: Dialogue, theme music, background noise.

Genre Characteristics: Light hearted music, storyline isnt twisted or evil, bright colours used.

Target Audience: The target audience of this film is mainly young children but applies to all ages as there are some jokes the kids wont understand but parents will.

Titles: There are few titles and only then do they say the film title.

Production Schedule

November
Thursday 25th - Filming
Friday 26th - Filming
Saturday 27th - Filming
Monday 28th
Tuesday30th

December
Wednesday 1st
Thursday 2nd - Editing
Friday 3rd
Saturday 4th
Sunday 5th
Monday 6th
Tuesday 7th - Editing
Wednesday 8th
Thursday 9th - Editing
Friday 10th
Monday 13th
Tuesday 14th - Exporting
Wednesday 15th
Thursday 16th - Deadline

Music

The music that we chose was a dramatic piece, this was very hard to find as we needed one to get the right feel, the song we had built up slow, the song also plays throughout most of the opening but stops in the parts in which you need to hear what is being said. We got the music from a website that boasts copyright free songs, this meant we had access to a database of songs eventhough we needed a precise type of song for our opening.

Locations

We had to choose suitable locations for us to shoot, this is to make it feel as though we were actually in places, this is because we had a scene in a "doctors office", and as we were in our school we needed to dress the set to make it look real.

This is the location where we filmed the autograph scene, this is becuase it has a different look to the rest of the school.


This is the location of all of our football shots as it gives the right impresion as football should be played on a football pitch.

This room was our doctors office, we made it look more like a doctors office by putting up posters, which were the sort that you would see.

We shot a flashback in this location, this was because we need to film someone struggling to walk up some steps.

This s the outside of the doctors office, you see this briefly before you go into the doctors office.

Animatic

This is the animatic to our film opening it has the timing that we wanted for each shot.