Period 6 -- 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?
How is voice acting important to the animation of the film? Answer in complete sentences.
Who are Nick Park and Peter Lord?
True/False: Before the animators begin their work filming the dolls, the voice actors record their dialogue months in advance.
How do the animators record the characters' mouths moving?
How many sets did the team of animators build for the film?
About how many individual frames is Chicken Run made up of?
What are some objects the sound artists used for the chicken sound effects?
How many minutes of film were completed per week?
About how long did it take to shoot a single shot from the film? Which shot was the longest in the film?

Claire Williams

1/11/2018 12:23:52 pm

1. Plasticine
2. It makes the animation come alive.
3. The co-directors.
4. True
5.They replace the mouths for every syllable of every word.
6. 30.
7. 100,000
8. Feathers, and slapping their hands on stuff.
9. 1 Minute.
10. About 4 weeks (1 to prepare and 3 to shoot). The longest shot of the film was when Rockie and the girl were stuck in the pie machine.

1/11/2018 12:28:54 pm

1. The dolls are made of plasticine
2. Voice acting gives life and personality to the characters and it makes the animation come alive.
3. The co-directors are Nick park and Peter Lord.
4. True
5.The animators record the characters speaking by replacing the mouths for every syllable of every word.
6. The animators build 30 sets for the film.
7. The movie is made up of about 100,000 frames.
8. Feathers, and slapping their hands on stuff is how the sound artists make chicken sound effects.
9. About 1 Minute of film was completed per week.
10. It took about 4 weeks (1 to prepare and 3 to shoot) to shoot a single shot from the film. The longest shot of the film was when Rockie and the girl were stuck in the pie machine.

boyd meltzer link

1/11/2018 12:24:01 pm

What material are the dolls in Chicken Run made of?
The dolls are made out of plasticene.
How is voice acting important to the animation of the film? Answer in complete sentences.
It gives life and personality to the characters.
Who are Nick Park and Peter Lord?
Nick Park and Peter Lord are Oscar - winning animators. They were also the directors of the film.
True/False: Before the animators begin their work filming the dolls, the voice actors record their dialogue months in advance.
True
How do the animators record the characters' mouths moving?
They have multiple mouths that are replaced for each frame.
How many sets did the team of animators build for the film?
30
About how many individual frames is Chicken Run made up of?
More than 100,000.
What are some objects the sound artists used for the chicken sound effects?
Gardening gloves, airplane wings, car doors, fence wire and chains
How many minutes of film were completed per week?
1 minute
About how long did it take to shoot a single shot from the film? Which shot was the longest in the film?
The longest shot took 4 weeks. 1 week to prepare, 3 weeks to shoot.

elizabeth wray

1/11/2018 12:29:05 pm

1. The dolls were made with handmade palestine
2. The voice is the character of the character. The voice tells the emotion the character is feeling.
3.Nick Park and Peter Lord are the creators/directors of the oscar winning movie.
4. True
5.They have a bunch of mouth replacements they use for each scene to change the mouths of the characters.
6.The team of animators made 30 sets
7. There are Over 100,000 individual frames used in the movie.
8. The animators use different things like airplane wings, car doors, and wire, balloons, gloves.
9. One is how much film they shot per week
10. One scene took 3 weeks to shoot. The longest scene was 20 seconds, the one where ginger is telling everyone what to do when they are building the airplane.

Jordan Bell

1/11/2018 12:33:26 pm

1. The dolls in Chicken Run are made out of plasticine.
2. Voice acting is important to the film because it brings the characters to life and in some ways the characters are inspired by the voice.
3. Nick Park and Peter Lord are Oscar winning animators and co-directors of Chicken Run.
4. True
5. Animators record the characters’ mouths moving by replacing the mouths with different pieces for each syllable
6. The animators built 30 sets for the movie.
7. Chicken Run is made up of more than 100,000 individual frames.
8. Some objects sound artists used for the sound effects in the film were car doors, fences, chains, and gardening gloves.
9. About one minute of film was completed each week.
10. The average shot took one week to prepare and three weeks to shoot. The longest shot in the film, where Ginger was walking through where the airplane was being built, lasted only 20 seconds.

Annie Mosis

1/11/2018 12:34:24 pm

The chicken are made of Handmade plasticine models.
Voice acting brings the characters in Chicken run to life.
Nick and Peter are the co directors of Chicken run.
True
The animators change out their mouths for every syllable of a word .
30 sets for this movie were made
The movie is made up of more than a hundred thousand frames.
Some objects the animators used to make sounds is they used car doors and fencing .
The complete a minute of film per week.
It took a week to complete one shot.The longest shot to film was when Ginger is walking through all the chickens workining .

Payton Down

1/11/2018 12:35:15 pm

1.They were made out of Plasticine
2. You start to rethink the character after the voices of them are done. And the acting is inspired by the actual voice.
3. Oscar winning animators and Co-directors of chicken run. The brain behind the movie brought it to life and told everyone what to do.
4. This is true
5. The animators have to replace their mouth with every single frame they do and for every syllable of every word.
6. 30 sets for the film were made.
7. Hundred thousand frames were made.
8. They used props like airplane wings, car doors, fence wire, quarter inch tape and gardening gloves.
9. Only one minute was completed each week.
10. It took 3 weeks to shoot a single shot. The shot was only 20 seconds but it was the longest. It was the scene of when they were building the plan. And another long scene was the chicken pot pie machine.

Brandon Collins

1/11/2018 12:35:26 pm

1.What material are the dolls in Chicken Run made of? They were made from plasticine dolls.
2.True/False: Before the animators begin their work filming the dolls, the voice actors record their dialogue months in advance. True
3.How is voice acting important to the animation of the film? Answer in complete sentences. Voice acting was a major role in the development of chicken run because it would sometimes take thirty retakes of the same words to get it right.
4.Who are Nick Park and Peter Lord? They are both oscar winning animators.
5.How many sets did the team of animators build for the film? The animators made around thirty sets.
6.About how many individual frames is Chicken Run made up of? Chicken Run is made out of abou one hundred thousand frames.
7.How do the animators record the characters' mouths moving? They would replace there moth with a new one every frame and syllable for every word.
8.How many minutes of film were completed per week? Only one minute of film was completed every week.
9.How long did it take shoot a single shot from the film? Which shot was the longest in the film? It took them one week to prepare the scene and three weeks to shoot. The part of the film that took the longest was when the chickens were building their plane.
10.What are some objects the sound artists used for the chicken sound effects? They used car doors, fence wire, lake creeks and gardening gloves, but that's only some of the objects used.

Nataia Orquin

1/11/2018 12:36:30 pm

Handmade Plasticine Models is the material the dolls in Chicken Run are made of.
The voice acting is important to the animation of the film because you start to rethink the characters voices based on how it’s heard. The characters are then inspired based on the voices.
The plan to make Chicken Run was first hatched by directors Nick Park and Peter Lord.
It is true that before the animators begin their work filming the dolls, the voice actors record their dialogue months in advance.
The animators record the characters' mouths moving by replacing the mouths in every single frame as well as every syllable of every word.
The team of animators had to build 30 sets for the film.
There are 24 frames per second and more than a hundred thousand individual frames in the Chicken Run.
Some objects the sound artists used for the chicken sound effects are airplane wings, car doors, fence wire, quarter inch tape, lakes creaks, leaves, and gardening gloves.
Only one minute of film were completed per week.
It took 3 weeks to shoot a single shot from the film. The longest shot in the film was 20 seconds.

Matthew Weiss

1/11/2018 05:41:12 pm

The dolls in Chicken Run are handmade, plactacine dolls.
The voice acting in the film brings the characters to life.
Nick Park and Peter Lord are co-directors of the film.
True
In order to record the characters’ mouths moving, they had a peace that went on for each part of each syllable of every word.
There were 30 sets built for the film.
The film is made up of over 100,000 frames.
Some props that the sound artists use for making the sounds in the film include car doors, fence wire, quarter inch tape, gardening gloves, and more.
About one minute of film was created each week.
The longest shot to make, took one week of preparation, and about three weeks to shoot.

Parker Brown

1/11/2018 06:59:10 pm

1. The dolls are made of handmade plasticine models.
2. The voice acting is important to the film because the characters are inspired and based on the voice actors actual voice.
3. Nick Park and Peter Lord are the oscar-winning animators behind Wallace and Gromit, and they are also the animators/co directors for chicken run.
4. True
5. The animators record the mouths talking by replacing the mouth with a new one every frame for every syllable of every word.
6. The animators built 30 sets for the film.
7. Chicken run is made up of more than 100,000 individual frames.
8. They used airplane wings, car doors, fence wire, quarter-inch tape, Lakes creaks, and gardening gloves for the sound effects.
9. About one minute of film was created every 1 week.
10. It took 4 weeks to shoot one scene from the movie that lasted 20 seconds. It was the scene where ginger is giving everyone instructions on how to build the plane.

Kylie Bruehler

1/11/2018 08:37:52 pm

1.The dolls in Chicken Run are handmade from plasticine.
2. The voice acting was important to the film because the voice of the characters were based around the actual character.
3. Nick Park and Peter Lord are co-directors of Chicken Run and oscar winning animators.
4. True- the voice actors recorded their dialogue months in advance.
5. The team of animators for Chicken Run had created 30 sets for the film.
6. Chicken Run is made up of more than 100,000 individual frames.
7. In every frame, the animators would have to switch the mouth of the doll for every syllable of every word.
8. The sound effects artists used airplane wings, car doors, fence wire, a rubber glove, etc. to create the sound effects.
9. One minute of film was completed in each week.
10. One single shot took a full week to prepare. The longest shot in the film was the staggering scene where Ginger was walking through the other chickens and it took 3 weeks to shoot.

Gilly

1/12/2018 09:32:10 am

1) The dolls in chicken run are made of Plasticine.
2)Voice acting is important because it gives life and emotion and personality to the models / dolls in the action of the film.
3)Nick Park and Peter Lord are the animators and directors of the film , Chicken Run.
4)True
5)They have different mouths for each letter/syllable they speak, they change the mouths out each frame.
6)They built 30 sets
7)The movie is made up of more than 100,000 frames.
8)Some objects the sound artists use are airplane wings, car doors, fence wire , gardening gloves, and more.
9)Only one minute of film was done every week.
10) It took an entire week to prepare and three weeks to shoot. So a total of four weeks to do one single shot. The longest one was only twenty seconds and was the scene when Ginger was directing everyone in the airplane.

Lucas Prado

1/14/2018 07:00:19 pm

1.) The dolls were made of plasticine.
2.) Voice acting is important in the animation because, since it’s recorded before the characters are actually made, it forms the identity of the characters.
3.) Nick park and Peter Lord are the animators behind Wallace and Gromit.
4.) True.
5.) The animators give the appearance of talking by changing the mouth of a character for every syllable or every frame that they say something.
6.) The animators built thirty sets total.
7.) Chicken Run is made up of about a hundred thousand frames in total.
8.) The sound artists used objects such as: airplane wings, car doors, fence, wire, 1/4th inch tape, gardening gloves, etc.
9.) Only one minute of film was completed each week.
10.) One shot took a week to prepare and three weeks to shoot. The longest shot in the film was when the chickens were assembling the plane as Ginger walked by.

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