Evaluation

Year 9 Creative Media Animation Project

Animation Unit: Self-reflection and project evaluation:

Discuss your feelings about the production task:
Are you satisfied with the final result?
I’m satisfied with the final result as I think the music video came out pretty well.
Did the animation process require more or less time than you originally thought?
The animation process required more time than I thought. While we were filming according to what we planned to do on our storyboard, we found some parts were quite hard to film so we changed our storyboard for a few times which took us more time.
If you could start the project again what would you do differently?
If I could start the project again, I think I would do more drawing instead of only writing or sticking the lyrics on a whiteboard or a wall. It would look more interesting
Discuss whether your final animation has turned out the way you imagined?
It had turned out the way I imagined.
Explain how your animation skills developed during the project (i.e. did you become more efficient?; did the quality of your animation improve?; did you have to use a variety of animation techniques? etc);
During the project, we were using the iStopmotion for filming. When we were filming the first part, wasn't that efficient as we wasn't that used to setting up the light and camera and it was a bit shaky, so we re-filmed the shaky bit when we nearly finished the whole thing and it looked much better than before.
Describe any problems or difficulties you encountered during the animation process. (These may include; technical difficulties, corrupt or missing files, difficulty using the editing software, problems exporting etc.)
Once we saved the file wrongly that we should have saved the file but then we exported it, so we had to film it again.
Explain if you made effective use of storyboards and scene planning/breakdown?
We did made good use of the storyboards that we filmed according to what we planned and whenever we found that the thing we planned wasn't that good, we changed the storyboard so it's more organised.
Describe any time-management issues you or your group came across during the project and describe the steps you took to improve in this area;
We managed the time quite well that we still have time to re-film and make the video looks better.
List any other software skills, animation techniques, tricks or shortcuts you have learned during the project.
We used iMovie to combine all scenes together, so I know how to use iMovie now.