Rocco - Animation

This animation is effective as after the opening credits, the music was engaging and you immediately introduced to the main character, Rocco the mouse. You were brought up on suspense for a little while due to the opening credits and zooming in slowly with quick transitions to text, to who the main character was and as soon as you found out, you were engaged as to what was going to happen or what Rocco was going to do. The main character appeals to the target audience as a lot of people and especially children like animals, and so it automatically would draw in their attention. Also the establishing shot at the start of the animation as to where the story was set, tells the audience where the story was going to be based around - The Alleyway. The clip was also very colourful, and when the lights lit up, it attracted the target audience more as children love bright and colourful things. The moral to the story is that even if you don't have a lot, you can still achieve things - you don't have to be rich to be make something great, the mouse lived in an old alleway, and he didn't have a lot, but he still managed to create the electricity to be creative and light up the lights that he found.





In our group we may do animation as we believe that animation can appeal more to children than real life, as children enjoy fantasy and adventure movies. For example, Disney do a lot of animations which become hugely well known as they appeal to the younger generation. For example, Bugs Life, The Lion King, Cinderella, Beauty and the Beast as well as newer films such as The Incredibles, Toy Story 3 and Wallace and Gromit - Curse of the Were-Rabbit. The only problems we may face in doing an animation is that they take a very very long time to produce successfully overall. We may have group members who will not always be available at the time to help with filming and creating and so we'd have to prepare carefully for this if it were to occur at any time. As we'd be doing one-stop-animation, which is a series of photographs put together to create a film, it may be hard having to come away from creating the film and packing up to finding where everything went the next day or when we were next able to return to it, which could mean that it would mess up the whole film. It may also be quite expensive as it would depend on the props we were to use, which would mean that some things we would want to include in our opening clip, we wouldn't be able to.