Animation Evaluation

I have chosen to evaluate my work through a written review as it allows me to provide visual aids such as screen caps and survey result graphs. 

I exhibited my work on a number of platforms, the first being YouTube as this is where the competition asks for videos to be posted. I then created a survey asking questions about it and posted it with the link to the video on on social media websites such as Facebook. 

In our E Sting, there were regulatory issues in that the competition there is a specific set of music that needs to be used, so this limited creative ideas as we couldn't select our own one and it was difficult finding one that fit the video. 

It was difficult to film it over a number of lessons, as the last shot always had to be set up in exactly the same way, so if the lighting or set had been altered we had to re shoot a lot of the frames. 

3. Did you meet the requirements of the brief’s content? For example, did you conform to the guidance set-up on the E4 E Sting competition’s website?
We met all of the guidelines, the full video on YouTube is 10 seconds long and all the sounds have been obtained from the website. 

I created a survey for the animation which asked questions about the visual aspects of it, and also found out what the best parts of the video was and what could be improved. 

A large percentage of the people surveyed are usual viewers of E4, so I know that the results will be helpful. 

The survey asked respondents to rank aspects of the animation on a scale. The idea got the most praise, with all results being 'good' or 'excellent'. The others all vary in results, most are positive and there are none that have more than one answer as bad or awful.

They also said that the best part was the animation of the items leaving the box, but one part that could be improved was the ending as the logo was hard to see. So if I were to redo this, I'd probably have the actual E4 logo come onto the screen at the end, overlaying the one created.

Since I uploaded the video to YouTube, We were able to get feedback from the comments that members of the class had posted. Most of them talk about the camera movement being improved and the ending being clearer. The camera steadiness was directly due to filming over multiple days as the light was shifted slightly and made some of the cuts look jumpy. We could have fixed this by filming somewhere with artificial light rather than an area with windows.

I have learnt that having to do work that takes a long period of time means that it's more difficult to get people involved. Our original idea was to have people moving into the logo but this was restricted as the work had to be filmed over a specific area of time, and we weren't able to get enough people who were consistently free at the times. 

I feel like I would be a suitable candidate for work within the media industry where working to a brief is commonplace. I have finished my work quite far before the deadline and think that it fits the standard of E Stings.  Though I personally don't enjoy working in stop motion as it takes long amounts of time and there's a large chance of it going wrong. 

https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/YNBX35D