Mr. Teddy

Evaluation!

In this brief we got set a task to create a

title sequence to a film of our creation. We

named the film Mr Teddy. We found the

name suitable because the main character

would be named ‘Mr Teddy’. The film was

about a man who becomes a spy after the

loss of his Grandma, he doesn’t know

anything about being a spy yet has to take

over his Grandmothers major roll. After

thinking of many ideas for a film we all put

our ideas together and chose our favourite

one. After finally settling with a film idea

we pitched it to the class. When we pitched

the idea to the class we got feedback,

which included some good comments we

were proud of and some negatives which

included the ‘funny clumsy spy’ was too

cliché and also the actors were too

comedic however we did get comments

which included our cast being a ‘funny

quirky duo’.

Pitching our idea to the class…

After story boarding our title sequence it

was time to get to work with filming. We

filmed numerous scenes even though we

came across lots of issues with some

scenes being too hard to film and even a

few which were not possible like the

filming under water. When it came to

editing all the footage we had all together

we decided we didn’t like it. We thought it

didn’t make any sense and also out

computer crashed and we lost lots of our

work so we decided to scrap our original

idea and make a new one. We still used

some of the original footage but we

changed the idea of it so it was so much

easier to film and put together. Once we

edited our new version of our title

sequence we were so much happier with

it. It looked so much better then the old

one.

Throughout the process

of filming we used a

tripod for all of the scenes. We attempted to

use a dolly but it didn’t

work well so we scrapped that scene.

We then showed it to the

class and got more feedback.

It had good and bad

comments but over all we

were happy with the final

results. We got told the sound

and music worked really well

and also the typography was

good but although it had

good parts the audience said

that they didn’t fully

understand what the film was

about plus the over laying

was too distracting.

Our film had a Primary

audience of children and a

secondary audience of

adults and teenagers. The

film would probably appeal

to a Nuclear family. The

film would appeal to both

boys and girls with traits

being humorous, friendly

and also generous. Foe our

film the economic status

would also be Abc 1 class.

We did plenty of research

before and whilst creating our

title sequence including

researching into film studios to

find the right one which fitted

our film, researching into text

and what one fitted in the

sequence best and even

researching into transitions

which match the genre and

title sequence. The information we used helped us

with choosing big decisions,

which made our title

sequence.

The films that inspired

the idea of Mr Teddy are

Get Smart, Pink Panther,

Johnny English, The Naked Gun Trilogy and

The Spy Next Door.

You can tell the genre of the film

through the title sequence in many

ways for example we carefully

chose the type of text we used. We

used a text which were childish

and we though this resembled the

main character very well. The

Transitioned we had were sliding

off the screen and we decided this

connoted action and running, this

relates to the film. We chose a fun,

loud sound in the background that

to us connoted a spy. In our

feedback it was said that people

enjoyed the music and that it went

with the title sequence.

In our film we made the

main character who was the

spy be stereotypical, we had

him in a smart suit and in

some scenes we see him

carry a gun. We used a brief

case too, which made

appearances in the title

sequence. In my opinion we

reached our target audience

by making the title sequence

fun, understandable (for our

primary audience) and

humorous.

In my opinion the end product isn’t as

good as the group had hoped

considering we changed our original

idea and made incredibly different

from what we had imagined at the

start of the project. I think some areas

in the title sequence work really well

and I really like for example the

typography, the transitions and music

but others I don’t think were as good

like the acting in the background or

the way we put scenes that over

lapped each other. If we were to do

this project again I think we should

create a more simple title sequence,

which would be so much easier to

create and put together.