film opening concept & research;

 

The Owl and the Pussycat

My film is going to be based loosely on the poem The Owl and the Pussycat by Edward Lear. 

My target audience is younger children, or big kids if you feel like :D I am planning to use stop motion and a handmade collage (using edited "stock images") to tell the story. 

I am beginning with the very first stanza narrated by my mum in the classic and original style of the poem and then moving on to a montage set to an assortment of songs. This montage will contain all the fictional adventures of the Owl and the Pussycat.

I have access to most of the equipment to make this happen, photoshop and other photo manipulation programs, a sony cybershot camera (with burst function), a narrator, a large collection of music and a flexible tripod. I need to learn how to use film editing software to complete this.I don't think this will have a high impact on the audience as not much attention is required to understand it. :)

I did my research by looking up the words to the poem and then by reading different picture book interpretations of the poem.

I searched sound effect websites for good ocean sounds and I then spent a lot of time on google images looking for pictures that I can edit into what I needed. I decided to use an origami boat in the end, because it was hard to find a boat that was mostly a straight colour.  I borrowed mum's magnetic letters from school.