So, after speaking with our teachers again, we realised we hadn't show much progression of our logo. So, I'll upload some screenshots etc now of the different stages we went through to achieve our final version. :)
These were all fonts we liked (from www.dafont.com) which we thought may be appropriate for a child based audience. At a very intense level of scrutiny we will illuminate some choices.
- Number 2 we felt was a little too sharp on the edges (as sharp connotes harshness). - Number 3 is a little difficult to read because some of the letters are rather wide so this would not be good for our TA who would struggle to read anyway. - Number 4 - same reasons as number 2. - Number 6 - some of the letters aren't formed correctly which would not help children whilst learning to read/write. - Number 7 - uses no uppercase letters for names, which could teach a bad habit. - Number 9 - same as number 7. - Number 11 - feels a little too formal/adult for our TA.
SO... we were left with these options...
We weren't 100% happy with any of these, and wanted to find a 'hybrid' of a mixture of them.
We also decided we wanted to use the characters tails within the logo (like the Peppa Pig logo does) because we thought this was a rather stylised featured and thought it worked well with our characters tails. Here is one of the earliest hand-drawn ideas we had of this.
So... this finally progressed to our logo which is a combination of the fonts we liked and the tails included.
After a long process, and a lot more time than we initially thought, here is our final animation. The music was created in a programme called GarageBand and the voiceover added to the animation and music in iMovie. We chose to not have voices for Barnaby and Hazel - instead we have sounds for them. Barnaby is a low, slow sound - to represent his personality. And Hazel is a high pitched, quick sound to represent her. This is a stylistic feature that we thought we would like to try, even though it is not conventional. Our TA responded well so we decided to go ahead with this.
So originally we had our voiceover artist John record a selection of sentences - based around the same simple one. (E.g. "This is the hutch where Barnaby lives" and "Barnaby lives in this hutch".) We did this to allow us some freedom of choice when adding the voiceover to the finished animation. We have come up with a rough script of the order of the voiceover clips we will hope to use. It is as follows:
This is the hutch where Barnaby lives. He is a rabbit. This is the tree where Hazel lives. She is a red squirrel. Barnaby and Hazel live at the end of a long, long garden. Say hello Barnaby. Say hello Hazel. Barnaby is Jonathan's pet rabbit. This is Jonathan.
Obviously the voiceover will be over and around some music which we are creating in GarageBand at the moment.
We also decided we wanted to use the characters tails within the logo (like the Peppa Pig logo does) because we thought this was a rather stylised featured and thought it worked well with our characters tails. Here is one of the earliest hand-drawn ideas we had of this.
