My Intro

From looking at the intros for ‘The Only Way is Essex’, I used the software’s Cinema 4D and Adobe After Effects to create a parody title into.

Group Crit

Below is some of the feedback I had from my group crit:

•       Edit script, make them bitchier and mean
•       Have a climax at the end. ( have them being hypocritical, eating donuts.)

Story Board

The Only Way Is Birmingham

In the summer of 2012, there was a lot of advertisement and hype about a Brummie version of reality show the Only Way is Essex that was due out soon. Billboards and buses were plastered with posters and trailers were made viral. Many people from Birmingham (The Only Way Is Essex fans) got excited about this new series being based in their home town.

However, the “show” was a nothing more than a stunt to mark the founding of a new super-college in Birmingham.

Below is a link to the trailer:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QPjYADVx8Y

The Only Way is Birmingham hoax, The Birmingham Mail, Website, Veiwed  30/03/2013.(http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/local-news/the-only-way-is-birmingham-is-a-hoax-college-189714)

Finished Puppets

Amy 

Kim

Abigail

Final Puppets

As the process of making the finalized prototype was going really well and the puppets looked well-made and professional I decided to use them as my final puppets. This decision was also made as cost and time was running low.

I created the puppets head first, while all the face of the puppet was at a good standard, I unfortunately came across a problem with attaching the polystyrene balls to the breast area on the Essex style puppet. They wouldn't sit right on the arm and when I removed them, some of the polystyrene stuck onto the fleece. 

As I was already so far in the making and time and cost issues, I chose to improvise and covered the stuck polystyrene and stitch the outline of the breasts. It didn't turn out how I wanted and I wished I had tested it out before hand, but now I will use this incidence as future reference. 

As I had to stitch on an extra bit of fleece to cover the mess, the stitch was on show, so I chose to apply a bead necklace around her neck to cover it. 

Kim

 As I designed this puppet to only have lips and boobs to connote how much work she had done, I could only use the YouTube instructions for creating the mouth as a basis which then I experiment and worked until I created the lips that I was happy with.

As I didn't have any advice how to create the boobs, I had to just experimented using covered half’s of a polystyrene ball and a bikini top.  Fortunately, they both worked out well.