AS2: Task 2: Designing the Suite

Designing the Suite

After brainstorming through my ideas, I have decided to produce the suite under "half-term/summer/holidays". I have chosen to to create this suite because I feel that it relates to young children more than the other suite ideas did. Shown below are my ident themes I shall be using for this suite.

Summer Holidays Ident

First Theme - Summer:

My first theme is based around the summer holidays. I have chosen to create a summer themed ident because summer is a very popular season and is the longest holiday that children are given during their time at school. For this theme I have sketched my process onto a storyboard (shown below). As demonstrated in the storyboard the ident's focal point would be the beach. I would include lego characters that would be building sand castles and digging through the sand. The characters digging in the sand would eventually spell the word "CBeebies" and this would be the main focus of the ident. After this, the waves from the ocean would then wash away the letters signalling that this is the end of the ident. 

This ident demonstrates a fun and relaxing time for children and can be broadcast during the daytime as the storyboard demonstrates the sun shining at the beach.

I have since chosen not to create this ident as I believe that would be extremely complexed to create for the short length of time I would have for this, however this was my favourite idea.

Halloween Ident

Second Theme - Halloween:

October half term/Halloween is my second theme. For this theme I chose to present a friendly spider dangling from a cloud in the moonlight (due to the dark background, the spider is hard to view on the storyboard). In the second and third boxes of the storyboard, I will display trick-or-treaters gathering in a large number and their bodies will spell CBeebies.

I've had to come up with a few contingencies for this theme because I realised that it would be quite difficult to create the word CBeebies using either lego pieces or play-doh. My new plan for this would be to have the flame from inside of the pumpkins flare upwards and spell CBeebies.

This ident can be broadcast during the evening, this is because winter months mean it would get darker a lot quicker outside and I believe that this would definitely set the Halloween theme.

Out of my three ideas, I have decided that this theme would be the easiest ident to create as it isn't time consuming.

Third Theme - Christmas:

Christmas Ident

My Christmas themed ident would appeal to young children because it is a fun, festive time period that children look forward to. It's a time for presents, food and family. Instead of there being pumpkins on the floor like my Halloween idea - a Christmas tree will be in place instead. 

The snowmen will be waving the arms as snow will fall around them and the star on top of the tree will soon transform into the word CBeebies. I believed that this idea would have been the easiest to create, however it would be difficult to portray snow falling in the atmosphere.

As an extended version of the ident, I would portray how the snowmen will place their hats on the ground - symbolising the end of the ident, however I believed that this would again be quite difficult to create in the short amount of time I have.

This ident could be broadcast at any time of the day within the winter months. Children enjoy playing in the snow and building snowmen - thus why I believed that it would be a great idea to include snowmen during the Christmas season.

As my final idea, I have decided to create the Halloween themed ident. This ident is simple, yet fun and entertaining for young children.

Shown below is a short video I have created which presents the idents in a much clearer detail.