Idea/proposal

My idea will be aimed at an audience aged from 13 to 25. I have aimed for a young audience because of the style of my idea, my idea will be drawn on the whiteboard and animated with a 3D object. This would appeal to a young audience since it is all cartoony and the storyline I come up with would also appeal to a younger audience as well. The gender of the target audience that I will be aiming at will be mostly male but it could be different due to the storyline I create. There is a possibility that I would create a fighting scene or just a simple everyday object doing everyday activities.

For my stop motion animation I have decided that I would create an animation using white board and clear wipe able tracing plastic sheets. I also decided that I would use plasticine for the creation of the man because I had to keep in mind that I still needed to create an animation that had 3D object. My idea will begin with a plane flying across the whiteboard, the plane will be drawn on the plastic wipe able sheets and moved with the clouds also drawn on the plastic sheets. The clouds and the plane will be moving to give that illusion of it flying. This would be done for a like 2 to 3 seconds and then the plasticine man would be introduced into the animation. Because of the problem with him not being able to come out of the plane door because of his size I will have appear from behind the plane and then dive and have him falling. This is where I use the plastic sheets with the clouds drawn on again with them moving like clouds do and the plasticine man dropping moving down the screen. Because my idea had changed I will end it with the man landing and then getting up and waving to the audience with a tree and some birds flying in the background like before this will be done using the plastic sheets. The birds are seen in the distance so I will have to draw them small and have to rub them out at every frame and then draw them again to make them look as if they are flying. For the sound.

For my first initial idea I planned on creating a fighting scene but the realised it would be difficult and not easy enough to create. The next idea I had was to create an advertisement for a holiday company. My idea was going to have the same plastic sheets and the same plasticine man but the idea will be different. It would’ve began in the same way with the man jumping out of the plane and look more realistic with him appearing from the front of the door of the plane. This would’ve of meant that I would’ve had to create many plasticine man of different shapes, this would be for each frame changing sizes with the man zooming in. 

Target audience: Animation films are usually considered to be children's films and can be watched by the whole family. This is because animation has a visual appeal for kids with basic characters and a simple plot that children can follow along with and enjoy. A lot of these films do cater for adults and parents as well because sometimes the stories can have a serious meaning under all the visuals and humour. I want to attract both male and female but this will depend on my storyline. If I came up with a fighting scene the audience that it will attract will be mostly male but if come up with a normal scene then there will be a mix between male and female. Males are more likely to enjoy fighting scene more than females because of the violence and if the fighting scene is well sorted out than there will an even bigger audience. If my idea was to change to a compromise then there will be a skydiving scene with a man with no parachute to add an element of humour. This parachute idea would also mean that it would be aimed at a bigger audience because it is an advertisement.

Length: the length of my animation, I don’t want it to be too long so approximately 30 seconds long or shorter. This is so that the audience get a good look at what’s going on to make it clear for them. If it was longer than the animation could seem like it was repeated and just get boring. So the shorter the animation the more the better and the more interesting it will be. I want it to be clear and interesting to watch and fun for the audience so approximately 30 seconds would be good.

Soundtrack: for the soundtrack of my animation I will not have any music but I would have sound effects. The sounds effects I would use will be a plane flying, sound of a man falling, and a splat sound. If it was for my initial advertisement idea I would’ve had advertisement music. I would’ve had extreme activity music because the plasticine man would’ve been doing these activities and then towards the end I would use some calm music. As the extreme music is playing I would have sound effects playing, things like car screeching, parachute going off, plane flying and diving sound effect.