Amzing world of Gumball- Animation analysis

In the child programe "The amazing world of Gumball" the characters are all animated and the props they are using are animated aswell, however the rooms and props they arent using are not animated.

I noticed this when watching it with my little sister, I noticed that she enjoyed it more than other childs TV that she watchs, this got me thinking about how hard it must be to create a suitible creative, imaginitive programe that captures their attention.

As childrens TV is created and directed by adults they have to think about what they would be interested in and what would capture them, the other animated TV shows that are popular are: "Jonny Test" "My Fairygod Parents" and "Aventure Time" these all capture her imagination and her and her friends create their own charaters from the TV show, this shows that alot of work goes into creating the characters to make them memrable and loveable by the children.

I asked my sister some questions about it:

Why do you like it so much?
"Because it looks real and its funny"

Do you like how the characters are drawn?
"Yes, I think they look good and I like the colours"

The answers from her friends where the same and this just shows that Ben Bocquelet might be on to a new kind of childs animation TV shows.

Here are some examples of the show "The amazing world of Gumball"

This is a shot of the family of Gumball in their living room. As you can see the charaters are animated and the living room isnt, however their food and TV set is, if you glance at it the you dont notice that the room isnt animated, this is cleaverly done as they over animate the characters to bring an emphasis on the room.

This is a shot of their school. as you can see there is alot of different ways of animatiting their characters, like for example the dinosaur, it looks more sculptured than animated, then there are drawings of characters and then objects with googly eyes stuck on them. There are just normal everyday things turned into actual people/characters. Like the other shot the classroom looks animated this is also emphasised by one of the characters hanging off the light which makes it look like it is part of the animation.

In this shot, the houses behind them have had characteristics animated onto them, this makes you look more closesly at them and take notice that the structure of them isnt animated and it has been drawn on, also they sky isnt animated but the sun and bushes are, this gives it the childish look that captures their attention.

About the director:
The director Ben Bocquelet is a french born english animater, writer and producer. He is best known hor his creations on Cartoon Network. For his rejected characters from adverts he put them into a show with a school setting, hense "The amazing world of Gumball" It came out in United Kingdom in 2011 and then in the United States on the 3rd of May 2011.

production pitch

Our production pitch contains our opeing squence details and how we are planning to film it. we presented it to the class and got good useful feedback, this helped as they said we have a good clear structure about what we want to do and what we want it to look like. However we need to focus on where we are going to film it who we are going to cast as our actors and what props we need to use for it. We also need to figure out a message to get across to the audience and how we are going to do that.

We then disscused our next action points for the next meeting, these were:

-to discover a suitable location
-put together a shot list
-produce a final copy of our storyboard.

21st Febuary 2013

In todays lesson we re-shot our first two shots of our antagonist, we shot our opening eyes scene and the bathroom scene, these proved hard after changing our story line as we didnt really know how to start shooting, it took longer than expected but as we got into the swing of it, we tried different angles and shots to see which looked better and didnt bring up as many questions.

With the opeing eye scene, we tried closing eyes for 3 seconds and then opening them straight away looking dead intot he camera lense, which proved effective as you cansee the actresses pupils contracting. We then tried opening her eyes and her looking around the room in a fast motion then landing on the camera at the end of around 10 seconds. the last on we tried was opeing eyes slowly and looking round the room and then closing eyes again, this however didnt work as we came to the conclusion that it didnt bring the effect we wanted from the scene.

The eye scene will be on a split screen with the same shot for our protagonist, this is going to be played by our friend Josh, he will do the same shot as me and we will edit it together to make it look like we are doing it at the same time.

The second shot we did was me putting on lipstick in a mirror of my bathroom, this proved hard aswell as I couldnt see what I was doing with the lipstick so we have to put it at an angle so it looks better and so that the lighting projects of my lips into the camera.

This will be a joint scene with Josh shaving, this is to show that he is obviously going somewhere important which leaves questions for the audience to ask.

Change in our opening scene

In today's lesson we watched the band Alt G's breezblocks music video, as it is showing a fight scene but backwards so it makes you wonder and ask questions.

After watching this we thought it would be a good and different idea to make our antagonist a female, this would make the audience wonder which is the antagonist or the protagonist because they wouldn't find out, we also changed our first couple of shots as we now have the protagonist shaving in the mirror with a close up of the bottom of his face and the top of his torso and then the bottom of the antagonists face putting on bright red lip stick and the top of her torso.

We are then going to have a shot of them putting on their shoes and walking out their doors, this will then add onto the sequence we have already created.