Toy Story 1, (1996) Disney, Pixar

The film that we have chosen is Toy story, which we feel is most similar to our animation. This is because it includes fictional characters coming to life and having an adventure, it also includes small children who have some kind of love for the fictional characters. Another similarity would be that in both ours and toy story the soundtrack to the film starts during the first title sequence before the film has started properly. The soundtrack to the film also tells the mood of the characters and the film, for example when Jericho the superhero comes out of the T.V screen. both films have a rather light-hearted theme and atmosphere, with a simple plot beginning to reveal itself to the audience. both films have a similar target audience, ranging from around the ages of 3 - 8 although Toy Story and Jericho alike would probably be watched by a varying audience of young and old. One similarity that we noticed was that from the very start we got to know the main characters for the film, including Jericho from our sequence and Woody from Toy Story.

However between our film and Toy story there are some differences such as, Toy Story's title sequence is rolling over the top of the beginning to the film.

This sequence introduces the main people who were involved in the making of the film. In our film we chose to use one type of shot throughout the opening sequence, whereas in Toy Story they use various shots, including panning, close ups and long shots. This would have been harder to perform in our animation as we did not have the time or a sizable budget like the makers of Toy Story would have had. In our film we chose to use narration to tell the story of our film, but in Toy story they used the characters to start telling the story. Toy story also simply used the events to tell us what was happening whereas this had less of a part in our film. Like in Toy story the young boy's birthday tells us what might happen.

Toy Story uses a lot of CGI (this helps to give a good flowing motion picture, as we could not use this facility ours was much more jumpy) in the film to give a very professional effect to their animation, however we did not have the budget or time that they had, and maybe to improve our film we could have used this. we used 'Istop motion' animation in our production which was very good for a simple and effective opening sequence.