Pixilation

Today, we did a pixelation animation and sam was doing the vogue dance. Pixelation animation is to do with people being in the animation instead of models or cut out models. This is only the first half of the work. 

cut out animation:

Understanding media:
Understanding structure and ownership in the creative media sector:
Filmmaking structure:
There are 5 parts of making a film. These four parts are called Development, Pre-production, production, post-production and distribution.
Development:
This is the first part of making a film. This is where the producer selects a story to do, this could come from a book (like the harry potter franchise), a comic (like Batman and Superman), another film or it could be an original idea. Then, they also write the screenplay. Screen play is the script, you can find a script in many different sectors of the media industry like Television, animation and more. A script is a piece of paper that tells what to do, as well as speaking it could tell them what action to do or what voice to say the line in.  

Pre-production:
Pre-production is the second part of making a film. This is where they make the storyboards with the help for an illustrator and concept artists. This is also where the producer put in insurances are put in place to protect them against accidents also the budget is figured out, this is where they know what they are going to spent on the film. Also the producer picks out a camera crew, for a low budget film they would be going for the cheapest film crew, where as a high budget film will fork out hundreds for a film crew. They are also able the fork out for top actors to play the parts (cast) also the locations for the film are found and selected.
Production:
Production is the third part of making a film. This is where the main shot of the film are done also more crew is recruited at this stage, people like stills photographers, assistant director, property master and more.
Post production:
Post production is the fourth part of making a film. This is where all the sound, image and visual effects a put in the film. The film is also edited, which means sometimes small parts and scene are cut of the film. Like in Harry Potter, the ghost peeves was cut of the films as he wasn't seen an important character and also the film would have been too long if he was in it.
Distribution:
Distribution is the final part of making a film. This is where the film is the film is released into the cinema of it is put straight onto DVD as it wasn't good enough for the cinemas.
Structure of film companies:
All film companies have the same structure, all the big companies like Disney and fox have took over/ bought all the smaller companies. An example of this is the Warner Brother studios.
Warner Brothers:
Warner Brothers own lots of like companies like HBO, Adaptly and more. These companies also own their own like HBO have Cinemax. Although Cinemax don't do films, they do TV shows like documents and old action films that they make into TV shows. An example of this is they made the old transporter films into a new series that are biased on the film. But Cinemax also have there own TV channels that they show movies on, these channels are called MAX GO, 5 star max and more but customers have to buy 12 dollars if they want it on your TV box. 
TV stucture:

Alien animation:

This is animation of an alien walking about and bending his eyes. He is exploring his surroundings as he has never been there before. 

model:
The monster from the planet zorg.

stop animation: 1970s- present.

History of animation 1970s-present day:
Terry Gilliam:

Gilliam was born on the 22nd of November 1940. Gilliam made 12 featured films in his life time some of these were called Time Bandits (1981), The fisher king (1991) and lots more. He also changed how animation by making it not just for children as through the 1950s and 1960s cartoons where known as a child's thing but Gilliam switched it around to be a adult sort of thing by creating a programme call monty python. He did this by adding adult jokes to the animation. Monty python started out as a cut out animation then moved on to having people play in the films. He started his carrer out as a cartoonist but if he hadn't moved from the US then he would have been a bomb maker as in those days it was bad times in America and they need bomb makers as there were a lot of riots in 1966-1967. 

Oliver Postage:

Postage was born on the 12th of April 1925 and died on the 8th of December 2008. He started his career as a stage manager in 1957 in the children's television programme section and always thought that he could make the best animations on low budgets. He moved on in his career making television programmes such as Bagpuss, The clangers and pogles wood. Most of his animations where puppets. He has also done other stuff an making animation like narrated the 6 part comedy series called Elastic planet in 1995. This was on BBC Radio 4.

Hayao Miyazaki:

Miyazki was born on the 5th of January 1941 and he is well known for the anime's that he created. He made stuff like Spirited away (2001), My neighbour totorto (1988) and The wind rises (2013). He is so well known and his work is so popular in Japan that he has own museum called Ghibli museum. He is that good that he retired but the producers keep asking him to come back to do another film.

Matt Groening:
Groening is a 61 year old cartoonist who created popular animations like The Simpsons and futurama. As well as doing TV series he has made them into movies like the Simpsons movies (2007), Futurama: benders big score (2007) and more. He is also another reason why cartoons are not just for children and can be used for adult entertainment as it has adult themes in it like dug use, violence or sexual themes. He has also appeared in the Simpsons a few times.