CSI Miami Lego Shot by Shot

(I was only there to complete the first two shots in the sequence so most of this analysis will be done by what i've seen watching the sequence and what my other group members told me.)

The beginning of the sequence shows a very quick shot of the city Miami, its about a 2 second shot so it wasn't hard to do but it did take us while to makes the city out of lego and i'm sure fans of show will recognize the shot as Miami.
The next shot we did was of two men, one being the lead male character in the show, speeding down a river in Miami. This shot shows the action that appears within the show, as a insight to what excitement the viewer will witness. Being a viewer of CSI myself, i find this shot in the opening sequence to work very well when showing the best parts of the show and i think we were able to do the same with the Lego and i think people will recognize the shot from the original.
The next two shot are close ups of the main male lead and one of his colleges. This gives the audience a chance to see the main characters before watching the show and gives them a few seconds to judge - judge what they think of the characters personalities or what they look like. Even though lots of people don't like to judge a book by its covers, when watching tv shows, thats what most people do when they determine wether they will watch the show.
Shot four in the sequence i think is my favourite because its a pan of the Miami city and i found it the most fun to complete the set for it and i think this is what a lot of people will recognize, especially with the camera work. The pan goes up the city, going along the side of the beach and show the glamour of show and beauty of the setting.
The next five shots that follow again are just showing the characters which appear within the show and again give the audience a change to judge the characters for themselves and see what each one does in the program. Along with showing the characters on there own, the opening sequence shows the characters dealing with technical equipment, tests in the lap and other things which go on when on the job. For example, we completed a shot of a dad body on a autopsy table and this was very interesting to try and figure out how to get it to look and work properly.
After most of the shots of the characters, we have another shot of the city miami, only for a second and then a shot of some of the characters in the strip joint watching a stripper.In the shot you see a strippers legs walking past the screen and we decided out of the blue, just for entertainment that we would make one of the legs a wooden leg. It happened to work really well, it was hilarious to see in Lego and i'm people who recognize the show from the shot will find this shot very funny.
After a few more shots of the characters, we show a shot of the city again slowly panning up the city, quite similar to a shot earlier in the sequence which again is another favourite shot of mine and again gives the audience a last view of the setting of the program.
Finally, the last shot is the main lead again but he appears in the shot faces away from the camera with his back to it. This shows the audience that he has some secrets and some troubles of his own and that during the show there will be some scene showing the lives of the characters and relationships between them. It is a very strong shot and appears very meaningful.

Tags on Popular Lego Animation

I typed in Lego Animation into youtube and found that the most popular lego animation, with 11,762,493 views, was a Star Wars Lego Animation. The most common tags used for the most popular animations were tags, such as, lego, animation, the name of the tv program, movie or what ever they are making a version of, fun and stop motion. 

For our Lego animation that we made, i think the key words that would attract the most traffic to our animation are tags such as, lego and animation, obviously this would attract traffic because this is what you would assume people would type in to watch videos like these. The name of the tv program we making our version of, which in our case, it would be CSI Miami. This would attract a lot of traffic from people who like to watch murder investigation programs like this one. We would also use tags related to Long Road College, such as, long road, creative and media or cmdiploma and this would be using in attracting traffic because we would get anyone who goes to long road or looks at long road projects, now looking at any of our videos. 

When tagging our video, i think being detailed is important, as when someone types in the search they are generally looking for a certain thing, we just have to make sure ours has a lot of tags which a relevant and we are bound to have many views by at least some people. 

CSI Miami opening sequence

Our group chose to do the CSI Miami sequence. We chose this because we thought most of the opening credits would be simple to do, as quite a lot of it is just characters faces. The sequence includes a series of characters head shots, some scene clips and quite a few special effects.
I think the parts which we will find the hardest to do are the special effects because they are quite complex to succeed with using just Lego. For example, there are parts of the sequence where you see them examining evidence with a pair of tweezers and also a dead body autopsy, on a tv screen. This will be very hard to make with Lego and to make it look more like the sequence we would have to use something other than Lego. Another hard part would be the effect going across the screen throughout the sequence. This consists of clear squares going across the screen in different ways and we could do this using some clear plastic but there is no way we could do this with Lego.
This sequence will be quite difficult in some places but I'm sure we can find some way succeeding with all the issues and it will be very fun to do.