Planning for our 2 minute children's film clip.

  As our film is going to be an animation, we do not need to do our filming outside of the classroom. Our whole filming can be done in class, but will take a lot of time and effort in the short space of time we have to film.
  We shall set up a small set, using items from home to create our dolls disco area and bedroom and street. We shall be using ''Polly Pocket'' dolls as these are not only easily relatable for children as they are dolls, but also easy for us as we have these items at home. We also have Polly Pockets stages - The bedroom and the disco area and so we will bring these in to use as our sets as they have been created to suit the dolls. This way we do not need to worry a lot about what set we can give the dolls as this is pre prepared. We shall have 4 dolls. One which plays Betty, the main character who is bullied, two girls who are the bullies and a mum. The three girls are all of the same age, around 10 years old. We shall need to use a torch at one point to act as a car driving past the doll when Betty walks home, so one of us will need to bring in this prop too.
  In the first filming lesson and half of the second filming lesson, we will be tackling filming the disco scenes, so scene's 1-5 as these are the hardest as they need the most amount of movement and careful filming. Once this step is out of the way, we can concentrate on filming the rest which will not take as long as it is mainly close ups of a mobile phone and a little movement of a hug from the mum and daughter. All of us will be participating in bringing little things in to help with the sets and dolls, and as for filming we shall allocate each other areas to focus on and alternate so we each get a fair share of trying to film successfully. The only problem with filming the clips (doing one stop animation) is that the characters will have to be placed in the exact same place as they were previously videoed on, which means careful preparation for the next filming lesson, but with good team work we will be able to achieve this and carry on filming as usual.