Meeting,

Today we all have a meeting for urban review, I will be taking down their minuets and making sure they dont need any cameras booking out or anything else, hopefully i will be able to help them out and make up for not being in monday when i was off sick.

As Live- Urban review meeting/ Funny people meeting

Today i met up with Mel to talk about her production and to kind of get up to date with everything and she is doing very well her idea is great, also she is well organised she knows what she wants and who she wants, she did have some concerns but ive mentioned to her i will help her sort anything out,

My next meeting with be with sam wilder i want to try and get up to date with him see where he is at and really just help him along and do the same for him as i have with mel and really keep everyone motavated witht he projects.


Just to finish off i am also finding time to fit in my own personal work and seeing what i can do as and when i can so my essay research is still on going i have a strong idea for my fiction idea and all i need to do is get hold of some illastrators and animators once i know simon is happy with my idea.

Fiction Unit- Mood Board

Here are a few images of how i would like my video to look.

I like the dark but glam look
 this image shows us



This is the type of image im looking
for when it comes to
my animation the style suits the
burton style

With this image i was trying to show
how i would like black and white/grey scale
can be mixed with colour

I want to try mix animation with
real life and i will try and
this through doing green screen

The UV is an idea to try and slowly
mix real life and animation
together if this doesnt feel right
i will use an illistrator to draw over images
and mix them both together

Filming-Professor Green

After being informed that I had a chance to film Professor Green in maidstone (wonderland) i couldnt pass that gift up so of course i said yes, and oh my gosh was it worth it not only did i manage to film professor green but i was also involved in interviewing Dane Bowers the Lady who i was workign closely with have given me her email and mobile number so i can send my footage over and hopefully i would of made a new link within the media world here are some pictures of the evening.

My Pitch

Today i did my pitch it seem to go ok i could of thought out a few details better but over all i think it was pretty good, probaly not the worlds amazing idea but at least it was an idea that could of possibly been somethign bigger if more detail was added and i took ym breif into more consideration.


My next step now is to wait and see what projects got picked and if mine hasnt who's team i will be working on, as well that i am planning my essay and also sorting out my fiction uni where i have got some books out on burton to try and get myself into his mind set and see how he thought up his style that he has.


Overall some times i feel doing the two huge projects at the same time as well as an essay and a report its a bit too much and i have a problem with time and making sure i spend enough time on all the projects not just one or the other but i suppose once the ball starts rolling i can get into the rythem better.

Fiction Unit

Through talking to my tutor Helen i have found my style that i like and that would look good for my idea of a childs imagination coming to life. There is a band that uses the animation of the style that i like my work to look simular too and it will also complment the Tim Burton Poem i will be using to adapt.

The Used- All that I've got, This video really does play on a darker side of a child imagenation most of their video are dark and playing on phobias and i wanna keep to the dark feel to stay sort of true to Burton.











I have a back up plan incase i cant find a young child to use and that the idea goes like this,

Its a dark room and in a spot light you will see a young child drawing on with their toys around them the child is an animation and their pictures start off as an animation but they soon start to morf into real people and their world has become real while the young child is still lost in their world.


The Poem i will be using:

Vincent Malloy is seven years old
He’s always polite and does what he’s told
For a boy his age, he’s considerate and nice
But he wants to be just like Vincent Price


He doesn’t mind living with his sister, dog and cats
Though he’d rather share a home with spiders and bats
There he could reflect on the horrors he’s invented
And wander dark hallways, alone and tormented


Vincent is nice when his aunt comes to see him
But imagines dipping her in wax for his wax museum


He likes to experiment on his dog Abercrombie
In the hopes of creating a horrible zombie
So he and his horrible zombie dog
Could go searching for victims in the London fog


His thoughts, though, aren’t only of ghoulish crimes
He likes to paint and read to pass some of the times
While other kids read books like Go, Jane, Go!
Vincent’s favourite author is Edgar Allen Poe


One night, while reading a gruesome tale
He read a passage that made him turn pale


Such horrible news he could not survive
For his beautiful wife had been buried alive!
He dug out her grave to make sure she was dead
Unaware that her grave was his mother’s flower bed


His mother sent Vincent off to his room
He knew he’d been banished to the tower of doom
Where he was sentenced to spend the rest of his life
Alone with the portrait of his beautiful wife


While alone and insane encased in his tomb
Vincent’s mother burst suddenly into the room
She said: “If you want to, you can go out and play
It’s sunny outside, and a beautiful day”


Vincent tried to talk, but he just couldn’t speak
The years of isolation had made him quite weak
So he took out some paper and scrawled with a pen:
“I am possessed by this house, and can never leave it again”
His mother said: “You’re not possessed, and you’re not almost dead
These games that you play are all in your head
You’re not Vincent Price, you’re Vincent Malloy
You’re not tormented or insane, you’re just a young boy
You’re seven years old and you are my son
I want you to get outside and have some real fun.”


Her anger now spent, she walked out through the hall
And while Vincent backed slowly against the wall
The room started to swell, to shiver and creak
His horrid insanity had reached its peak


He saw Abercrombie, his zombie slave
And heard his wife call from beyond the grave
She spoke from her coffin and made ghoulish demands
While, through cracking walls, reached skeleton hands


Every horror in his life that had crept through his dreams
Swept his mad laughter to terrified screams!
To escape the madness, he reached for the door
But fell limp and lifeless down on the floor


His voice was soft and very slow
As he quoted The Raven from Edgar Allen Poe:


“and my soul from out that shadow
that lies floating on the floor
shall be lifted?
Nevermore…”

Childrens formatt for my idea.

Due to not being able to use actual children in my production i have to find away around this so i was looking into other ways on how to make a show for children without actually using them when i thought of this Horrible Histories came to mind. When i asked my litte brother what he was learning at school and his favourite subject he came back to me with this Maths and as we all know Maths can be the most boring subject if you dont like it so my challege ive set myself i to come up with a programme that it's aim is to make Maths fun for children.

Horrible Histories Opening Titles.