Period 5 -- Critical Analysis #12

1/11/2018

For your 12th Critical Analysis, you will watch the behind the scenes documentary Fowl Play: The Making of Chicken Run. You will then answer the questions below. This will count as your grade.

Post your answers as a comment to this blog post. Be sure to include your name in the post.

You will have 1 class period to complete your analysis. If you do not finish writing in class, you must finish this for homework and post before the next class on Friday, 1/12!

As you watch, answer these questions:

What material are the dolls in Chicken Run made of?
True/False: Before the animators begin their work filming the dolls, the voice actors record their dialogue months in advance.
How is voice acting important to the animation of the film? Answer in complete sentences.
Who are Nick Park and Peter Lord?
How many sets did the team of animators build for the film?
About how many individual frames is Chicken Run made up of?
How do the animators record the characters' mouths moving?
How many minutes of film were completed per week?
How long did it take shoot a single shot from the film? Which shot was the longest in the film?
What are some objects the sound artists used for the chicken sound effects?

Ryan Kyle

1/11/2018 11:31:16 am

1. Plasticine
2. True
3. Voices are important because it basically gives you a different perception of the character. The voices of the characters are basically what gives the character its characteristics.
4. Nick and Peter are Oscar winning animators and the co-directors of Chicken run.
5. 30 sets
6. More than 100,000 frames
7. The animators replace the mouths in every frame
8. 1 minute
9. 3 weeks to shoot. The shot in which ginger was walking amongst the chaos in the plane building area.
10. Airplane wings, car doors, fence wire.

1/11/2018 11:36:34 am

1. The dolls are made of Plasticine
2. True
3. Voices are important because it basically gives you a different perception of the character. The voices of the characters are basically what gives the character its characteristics.
4. Nick and Peter are Oscar winning animators and the co-directors of Chicken run.
5. 30 sets were used in the film.
6. More than 100,000 frames make up the movie
7. The animators replace the mouths in almost every frame in order to animate the mouths
8. 1 minute of the movie was completed every week.
9. It took 3 weeks to shoot a single shot. The shot in which ginger was walking amongst the chaos in the plane building area is the longest shot in the film.
10. Airplane wings, car doors, and fence wire are some of the things used to make sounds for the film.

1/11/2018 11:38:16 am

1. The dolls are made of Plasticine.
2. True
3. Voices are important because it basically gives you a different perception of the character. The voices of the characters are basically what gives the character its characteristics.
4. Nick and Peter are Oscar winning animators and the co-directors of Chicken run.
5. 30 sets were used in the film.
6. More than 100,000 frames make up the movie.
7. The animators replace the mouths in almost every frame in order to animate the mouths.
8. 1 minute of the movie was completed every week.
9. It took 3 weeks to shoot a single shot. The shot in which ginger was walking amongst the chaos in the plane building area is the longest shot in the film.
10. Airplane wings, car doors, and fence wire are some of the things used to make sounds for the film.

Jessica Mims

1/11/2018 11:35:12 am

1. The dolls in Chicken Run are made from plasticine.

2. True

3. Voice acting is important to the film because the voices help define the characters and make them unique. Each actors voice determines the characteristics of different characters, based on what they can do to their voice.

4. Nick Park and Peter Lord are co-directors of Chicken Run.

5. The team of animators built 30 sets for the film.

6. The film is made up of about 100,000 individual frames.

7. The animators record the characters mouths moving by replacing the mouths after each frame, for every syllable of every word.

8. One minute of the film was completed each week.

9. It took one week to prepare for a single shot of the movie, and three weeks to shoot it. The longest shot in the film was when Ginger is walking through the room where they are preparing to build the plane to leave.

10. The sound artists used airplane wings, car doors, gardening glove, etc. for the chicken sound effects.

Pato Wray link

1/11/2018 11:36:27 am

1. Hand-made plasticine models
2. True
3. You have to match the characters personality. If it isn’t then the character will change and the audience will be confused. You have to “be” the character
4. Oscar winning animators/directors of chicken run
5. 30 sets and about 80 animators working all the time
6. 24 frames a film/second
7. Animators work on their own characters and each have their own arms and legs. Have to be moved by the animators and replaces the mouths every frame.
8. Only 1 minute of film every week
9. An entire week. 3 weeks to shoot and the longest film was when Ginger was walking through the "plane" and telling everyone to work.
10. They play a crucial role in the making. They use chains and rockys model tail, gardening gloves, and they have an orchestra doing the main theme song.

Marissa Elizondo

1/11/2018 11:36:56 am

1. The chickens were made of plasticine.
2.t rue.
3. The voice is important to the film because when the filmmakers hear the characters are based on the voice. They decide how to move the mouth and the facial expressions of .the characters based on how the voice of the actor is projected.
4. Peter Lord and Nick Park are the co-directors of Chicken Run.
5. The team of animators had 30 sets.
6. Chicken Run is made of more than 100,000 individual frames.
7. The animators replace the mouths of the characters in every single frame to record them talking.
8. Only one minute of film is completed every week.
9. It took 3 weeks to shoot a single shot. The longest shot was when the chickens were building their aircraft to escape the farm.
10.Some objects used for sound effects were airplane wings, car doors, fence wires, gardening gloves, and other fun objects.

Larissa Esparza

1/11/2018 11:38:52 am

1.Plaster Seen that the animators move one frame at a time.

2.True

3.Voice is important to the animation of the character because you rethink the character based on the voice and the embarrassing pauses and other things that the voice does make the character.

4.Nick Park and Peter Lord are the co directors of Chicken run.

5.The animators built 30 sets for Chicken Run.

6.Chicken run is made up of 24 frames per second and 100,000 frames making up the whole movie.

7.The animators made the mouths look like they're talking by replacing the mouths for every syllable of every word and mouth gesture.

8.Only one minute of Chicken Run was filmed completely every week.

9.It would take 3 weeks to shoot one shot for Chicken Run and one week to prepare. The longest shot in the film is when they are preparing to leave in the plane and they are building it while Ginger is walking in front of all the work pieces.

10.Sound effects on animation is very detailed because it isn't with real life. The props that are using are fence wire, car doors, airplane wings, quarter inch tape to make creeks dish gloves and gardening gloves.

Maria Tirado

1/11/2018 11:40:29 am

1.The dolls in the film Chicken Run are handmade out of plasticine.

2. True

3. The voices from the actors of chicken run are very important to the animation process, because it is the voice that inspires the animators to give the characters extra movement in awkward pauses, etc.

4. Nick Park and Peter Lord are the co-directors of Chicken Run.

5. There were about 30 sets built for Chicken Run.

6. There about 100,000 individual frames that make up the film.

7. The animators have to replace different mouths on each character for every different syllable the characters had.

8. Only one minute of film was completed each week.

9. It takes a week to prepare everything in a scene, and 3 weeks to shoot it. The longest shot in the film was 20 seconds.

10. Some objects they use to make the chicken sound effects are gardening gloves, airplane wings, car doors, a quarter-inch tape that makes creaks, rubber gloves, etc.

Marynez Cantu

1/11/2018 11:43:32 am

1.The material used to make the dolls was plasticine.
2.True
3.The voice is very important for the actual character in the movie because it brings the character to life and the actual movie depends on the voices.
4.Nick Park and Peter Lord are the co-directors of the movie.
5.In total they had 30 sets.
6.There was 100,000 individual frames.
7.They replace the mouths after they shot the frame.
8.One minute of film was completed every week.
9.One single shot took an entire week to prepare and the hardest scene to prepare was when Rocky and Ginger were trying to escape the pie machine.
10.They used many objects for the sound effects including an airplane wing, car doors, fence wire, quarter inch tape, gardening gloves, etc.

mikaela mumme

1/11/2018 11:50:52 am

The chickens in chicken run are made of plasticine
Before the animators began there work filming the dolls, the voice actors record their dialogue months in advance.
True
How is voice animating important to the animation of the film?
By hearing the voice it starts bringing the character to life and sometimes they can be rethought. The character can be based on and made after hearing the voice.
Who are Nick Park and Peter Lord?
They are oscar-winning animators and the co-directors of the film.
How many sets did the team build for the film?
They had 30 sets on the set of chicken run.
About how many individual frames is chicken run made of?
It took 100,000 frames to make chicken run.
How do the animators record the mouths moving?
Every frame they have to change out the mouth.
How many minutes of film were completed per week?
One minute of film was completed per week.
How long did it take shoot a single shot from the film? Which shot was the longest in the film?
It took on week to shoot a single shot and three weeks to shoot. The scene where ginger has to move under a some objects and there is a lot of chaos.
10.What are some objects the sound artists used for the chicken sound effects?
A variety of objects were used to make more sound and make the film more real. For example to make the sound for the gates they used chans and clanking metal fo add sound.

Josh Salehi

1/11/2018 10:02:17 pm

1.The crew used Plasticine

2. True

3. It gives each character unique voice in which they can express themselves.

4. Directores of chicken run

5. It took them 30 sets to complete

6. One hundred thousand or more

7. They used many different mouths they made with different gestures

8. 1 minute a week

9. It took 3 weeks to shoot and there scene was when ginger the chicken walks and guides the making of the plane

10. Some sounds they used were airplane wings cardoors, a quarter inch pipe gloves and other things.

Kate Madison

1/12/2018 09:57:34 am

1. Plasticine
2. True
3. Voices are important because it shows a different perception of the character and the voices give the character its characteristics.
4. Nick Park and Pete Lord are co-directors of Chicken Run.
5. They mande 30 sets for the movie
6. More than 100,000 frames
7. They replace the character’s mouth every frame to make it seem like they’re talking
8. One minute
9. It takes 3 weeks to get a single shot and the longest shot was when Ginger was walking around while everyone built the plane
10. They use gardening Gloves, Airplane Wing, Fence Wire, quarter inch pipe, etc.

Zach Burgos

1/12/2018 12:17:11 pm

The dolls are made of plasticine.
The dialogue is recorded months in advance before the filming.
When hearing the voice dialogue, it causes you to rethink the character. The animation also realize on the voice actor and the tricks they do.
Nick Park and Peter Lord are the directors of Chicken Run.
There were 30 sets on the set of chicken run
There were 100,000 frames in Chicken run
The animators have to replace the mouth for every single frame and syllable.
1 minute of film was completed every week.
The longest shot took 1 week to prepare and 3 weeks to shoot. Where ginger is walking down the hen house while the other chickens were building the plane.
chains for the gate and gardening gloves for the chickens running were some of the objects used for the chicken sound effects

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