Time Plan for Estings Animation.

Production Timetable;

In this project I had three weeks to decide on, produce, edit and finalize a 10 second Esting for the E4 company Channel. I chose to focus on collecting materials: 

• Monday the 15th was spent collecting objects that I could obtain from home, such as pencils, pens, paint brushes and erasers. 
• Tuesday the 16th was spent in class sketching up makeup ideas for my clown/mime character, and the afternoon of tuesday I spent collecting face paints that I would need in order to make myself into a mime.
• Wednesday the 17th was spent discussing with my tutor, where in the studio i could film my animation, as it was a silent film it would not require anyone to be silent or disrupt anyone. I also chose a very large frame piece to do the logo on.
• Thursday the 18th was spent in college printing out a range of sizes of the E4 logo onto a piece of acetate which i could project onto the frame I chose. 
• On Friday the 19th I used an overhead projector, in order to shine the logo onto the frame and then drawing around the logo in order to create a stencil for when it came to me filming my piece.
• On Saturday the 20th and Sunday the 21st, I spent the day at home updating my blog with all the work i had done and keeping a word document of step by step processes which i use as documentation.
• Monday the 22nd was spent in college all day, filming my animation. I used a space near the white board in the class where it would not interrupt anyone or stop them working.
• On Tuesday the 23rd i began to edit my film together, and the first program I used was Adobe After Effects, which was my first time using the software.
• Wednesday the 24th was spent in college, rendering my film out of Adobe After Effects in order to compress it into a film ready to be edited in Final Cut Pro.
• Thursday the 25th was spent in college, beginning to edit my film onto Final Cut Pro. My work included cutting down the 14 second film into about 8 seconds and beginning to add and take away colour.
• Friday the 26th was spent in college, collecting sounds and noises that I can use in my film, I did this in the Musical and Theatre Building at college.
• Saturday the 27th and Sunday the 28th, I spent the day at home updating my blog with all the work i had done and keeping a word document of step by step processes which i use as documentation.
• Monday the 29th was spent in college, finishing up any final pieces of my animation and putting it onto a disk to be marked. This process took the whole day.
• Tuesday the 30th was spent in college, adding pieces to my documentation and adding more to my research file, I also brought in work from the previous project to be handed in at the same time.
• Wednesday the 1st will be spent at home finalizing my book work and printing out any work left over. I will also evaluate my existing work from this and the previous projects.
• Thursday the 2nd will be spent in college putting all of my work into folders and preparing them for hand in the next day (if not handed in that day.)
• Friday the 3rd - HAND IN DAY!

Estings Finalists 2011.

Super Hit Combo! - Andrew Baxter.

This video was submitted and used as one of the finalists in the 2011 Estings competition for the channel E4. I feel as though this animation was particularly successful and has a rightful place as a finalist because of the level of skill and commitment it must have taken to make this animation. As far as I can tell, this animation has been purely hand drawn, with fast and action filled movements, as well as backgrounds of a city scape which has had to have been manipulated in order to show the angles of the buildings in many different views. There isn't a particular colour scheme in this animation, as it is pretty simple, using red and blue, plus the obvious purple for the advertising of E4.

E4 Comb - Erddin Llwyd.

This video was submitted and used as one of the finalists in the 2011 Estings competition for the channel E4. I feel as though this video would have been considered for the final because of the humour that is implied with it. The video itself doesn't necesserily make much sense, as it is just a fixed camera showing the E4 logo come to life, dip itself into a pot of hair gel, and slick the males hair into the shape of a "4," which in itself is one of those things where it's so random that it doesn't need to make sense the be funny. Even though the video itself is majorly simplistic, it is obvious that the video has had a vast amount of effort put into it. It looks as though the video has been set up with random materials and instruments with the intention to do a live action shot, however the E4 logo is the part that does all the moving,. It looks as though it has been computer generated and moved via an animation program, and the scenery has been made purple to fit the E4 colour scheme, which makes it look rather effective.

E4 Man - Tim McCourt.

This video was submitted and used as one of the finalists in the 2011 Estings competition for the channel E4. I feel as though this video would have been thought of as a finalist because of the way it has been designed. there seems to have been a lot more thought put into the production and the idea behind the advert. The E4 logo has been used as a marketing product, what appears to be a hair styling solution used by a black male surrounded by women, insinuating that it is what makes him attractive and what lures in the females. There also is the element of speech in this advert, where the females characters are singing along with the music, this shows that there has to have been more consideration put into the timing and style of the animation.

My Kingdom for a Horse - Benjamin Howell.

This video was handed in to E4 and was chosen as one of the many finalists in the 2011 Estings compe-tition for the channel E4.                 I feel as though this video was chosen as

one of the finalists because of the surprise and hilarious aspects that the animation holds. It doesn't make any sense at all, what the animation is about, although it's set in a kind of medieval realm, with  a knight riding on a horse. However, the aspect that steals the show would most definitely be the song which the horse faced man is singing, it makes no sense what so ever, but is catchy as well as hilarious. These two aspects put together add up to make the extremely entertaining but well thought out animation.

Super Fuel - Oinionterror.

This video was handed in as  a comp- etition entry for the 2011 Estings project for the Channel, E4. I feel as though this video was chosen as one of the finalists for a few reasons. This animation is completely 3D, which makes it different from the majority of entries I've seen for the Estings competition. The animation storyline is also very very clever in the sense that the creator has used something cute and sad, rather than funny, to get the viewers attention. The little tea cup is the main character, who tries to dunk a biscuit in his head full of tea, to eat. However, when he opens his mouth the tea falls out, and when he jumps back in shock, the biscuit splats on the floor, this then makes up the E4 logo with the spilt tea. A very clever idea!