Target Audience Extension Part 2

Vincent

Young Vincent Malloy dreams of being just like Vincent Price and loses himself in macabre day dreams which annoys his mother. Vincent is the dark tale of a young man whose innermost desires drive him to the brink of madness. His, is a lonely, tormented existence.

"Vincent Malloy is seven years old, he's always polite and does what he's told" this particular line is put across to the audience perfectly as calm and peaceful with the music which is played all through the film. That one line can pretty much set the target audience within itself as this short animation is indeed about a young boy, therefore young kids around about the same age group could definitely enjoy this film. 

"He doesn't mind living with his sister, dog and cat, though he'd rather share his house with spiders and bats" having said this short animation could be for kids from the ages of seven and up, this particular line also sets the audience for older than seven and into the teens, probably even adults as it is now clear this child like animation is more than just that, it has a dark and grotesque twist, indicating it could be classed as horror, thus making it enjoyable for teens and adults.

The writer of Vincent, Tim Burton, has a real distinctive style in mostly all of his films and animations. All of the characters in his films and animations appear to all have extremely exaggerated body shapes and limbs, e.g, Vincent's sister is a tiny little fat girl with really skinny legs whereas in contrast with Vincent himself, is quite short but really skinny with an abnormally long face.
This animation is instantly recognized as Tim Burton's work, the distinct features and techniques used with the animation are such elements that Tim Burton uses throughout the majority of his work.

This short animation was created by what seems to be one of Tim Burton's particular favorite techniques to use within his films, Claymation and stop motion. Claymation is a technique which involved creating and producing your characters out of clay or Plasticine  this technique is also used in the very well famous Wallace And Gromit, both of these along with stop motion. Stop motion is a very well known technique and is used in a quite a few of Tim Burton's films and animations. This technique involves moving your characters and/or objects slightly, taking a photograph and then moving them again slightly and continuing this technique until the desired amount of footage is met. Taking all of these pictures and putting them onto editing programmes such as Adobe Premiere or Photoshop, this creates the illusion of movement. 

The main elements to this animation are the use of stop motion, narration and claymation. Having covered the topics of claymation and stop motion, the soundtrack to this animation is quite brilliant. 
Tim Burton uses Vincent Price as the narrator of this animation. Vincent Price is a well known horror actor and one of Tim Burton's idols, so I imagine having Vincent Price to be in Tim Burton's animation was quite breath taking. 

Wallace & Gromit

Wallace & Gromit



Wallace is an absent minded inventor living in Wigan, Lancashire, he is a cheese enthusiast who is especially fond of Wensleydale. His companion, Gromit, is an an extremely intelligent dog.

Wallace & Gromit is very slaptick to that of a clown meaning it's very comical due to the comedy and humorous personality's the main characters portray. For younger audiences, there is a lot of obvious humour involved that is instantly funny. Such things that are so funny throughout the episodes of Wallace & Gromit are the ideas that Nick Park visually portrays such as the penguin being squeezed into a bottle and the idea of machine controlled trousers. For older audiences, there are lots of scenes and smaller, less obvious references to other works that are amusing for an adult audience. For example, "In a matter of Loaf and Death" there is a hilarious scene that references from the film "Ghost" featuring Patrick Swayze and Demi Moore, where he is helping her to mold bread just like the woman in the film does with pottery. "The Cure of the Were Rabbit" is filled with subtle little hints at older films, such as the fact where Gromit gets his diploma from "Dogwarts."

The writer of Wallace & Gromit, Nick Park from Aardman Animations, is an English film maker mostly known for his stop motion techniques, especially Wallace & Gromit and Shaun The Sheep.He has been nominated for a variety of awards including Creature Comforts and Wallace & Gromit. This is definitely a man whose creative brilliance is shown throughout his work with the quirky and simply brilliant ideas he portrays in his animations. Nick Park has been working with and revolutionizing the art of claymation since 1989 when he made the Oscar winning short animation Creature Comforts.

This stunning animation which has won several awards and brings joy to a lot of children and adults of all ages is used with such techiniques as Claymation and Stop Motion. These techniques are widely used in a variety of animations nowadays and are becoming more and more well known. Claymation involves making characters/objects out of Plasticine and placing them on metal armatures. Stop motion is a technique where you are required to take a picture of a character/object, move it slightly, photograph again and repeat this process until the right amount of film that is needed is met. With the use of editing software such as Adobe Premiere and Adobe Photoshop, you can create the illusion of movement using this process, hence stop motion creating wonderful animations like Wallace and Gromit.

There are a variety of different elements used throughout a lot of episodes of Wallace and Gromit, the main being the brilliant use of claymation and stop motion. Narration plays a big part in this wonderful creation as well, giving Wallace and Gromit that little bit more brilliance. The characters and sets created throughout Wallace and Gromit are also 3D, giving it that little bit more of a realistic effect.

The Simpsons.

The Simpsons



The Simpsons is an animated sitcom about the antics of a dysfunctional family called "The Simpsons" surprise, surprise. Homer is the unhealthy beer loving father, Marge is the hard working home maker wife, Bart is the ten year old underachiever and proud of it, Lisa is the unappreciated eight year old genius, and Maggie is the cute, pacifier loving silent infant. ...Some information used as reference from Wikipedia...

In my own personal opinion, to me The Simpsons is definitely enjoyable and suitable for all ages. For younger audiences, parents need to understand that the jokes made in this long running favorite often zip past so quickly that kids won't understand the deeper statements that lie there within. Life in Springfield can be chaotic, and Homer could very well be the "do not try this at home" poster boy. For older audiences, I think it is definitely more enjoyable as we can see and understand the true meanings of jokes and the acting that lies there behind the episodes. Beer is consumed in every episode, bad habits are obliged, and ignorance and mockery are the norm but somehow everybody gets along in the end.

The writer of The Simpsons, Matt Groening, works for the Fox Broadcasting Company. The series is a parody of a middle class American lifestyle. The animation was created by Groening shortly before a solicitation for a series of animated shorts. Groening created a dysfunctional family and named the characters after members of his own family. He was born in 1954 and made his first professional cartoon sale in 1978. The Simpsons has currently aired 514 episodes. In 1997, Groening developed Futurama, an animated series about life in the year 3000, which premiered in 1999.

The basic techniques in traditional animations haven't changed much from as early as Steamboat Willie in 1928. In traditional animation such as Family Guy and The Simpsons, an animator hand paints each image on  a transparent piece of celluloid, which is then placed atop of a background cell and photographed. This is a laborious, time consuming process and an animated feature film can take animators several years to complete.

There are many elements used throughout a mixture of episodes in this hilarious animation. 2D plays a big part upon success of this creation. With the use of the 2D animation where animators are required to hand paint each image on a transparent piece of celluloid which is then placed atop of a background cell and photographed, similar to stop motion I believe, to create the illusion of movement so viewers may well believe they are watching a proper moving programme when really it's all a bunch of drawings put together and sped up.