Firstly I planned out what I was going to include in my piece. I figured out a total of five illustrations - Cinderella in her messy clothes, Cinderella at the ball, a pumpkin, an invitation and a glass slipper. These would all be recognisable aspects from the story and therefore making it easily recognisable. I then started to create them. They are all 1920 x 1080 pixels, which is the screen size what I used for the animation itself.
These illustrations were inspired by Hungry Sandwich Club and their Park project which was made for B4 Parking. The illustrations that they have created have no outline, and they are incredibly simple, which is something which I wanted to include within my work. The characters that they have created have minimal features, but for my work I wanted my characters to have no features, so that the audience purely recognised them for their colours and forms, this therefore making my animation more intriguing and interesting. I have enjoyed looking at Hungry Sandwich Club's work as it has gave me ideas for future projects, it will be a great reference for me to use in the future.
This is the animation which I created next. The transitions of the illustrations work well. But I think it needs to be made simpler. From looking at other book trailers for children, they are incredibly simple with minimal information and mainly the same font. Meaning that they are clearly and easily understood. Therefore I developed this even further and created another piece.
This is my final animation, after much development and trial and error, I have settled on the font Futura to use throughout the piece, this is a font which is recognisable worldwide and it is also incredibly easy to read therefore making it perfect for my purpose. I chose to use various sizing techniques on the first part of text which appears within the animation, this makes the emphasis and the attention focus mainly on the title of the book "Cinderella", which is an important part of the trailer. I also added the type writer effect to this section of text as I thought it would look interesting and also build up a sense of wonder for when the audience is watching it. I added more text throughout, but instead of making it fly of the screen like in my previous piece, I decided to make it extremely simple so that it was east to read. Also, by having minimal text it makes it much easier to view the illustrations, which are the most interesting parts of the animation. The overall transitions work well within the animation and I am very happy with how it has turned out.
