Year 9 Creative Media

Respond to each of the following points (using complete sentences or paragraphs). You should include as much detail as possible in your responses.

1. Describe any problems or difficulties you encountered during the planning.
   We lost the storyboard and so had to work on our planning that we had previously. We have thankfully found the storyboard again and now have kept it in the classroom. Another difficulty was that we are working in a pair and so sometimes had difficulty understanding what the other person was trying to describe.
2. List the steps you took (or need to take) to improve in this area;
   We need to have more than one copy of everything, and we should try and communicate our ideas clearer.
3. Discuss whether you planned your project effectively (did you do enough planning);
   I think we did quite a lot of planning but we could have done more, I think I will go back and change it because we have changed the story a bit.
4. Discuss how the use of storyboards and shot-lists assisted throughout the filming process;
   The short lists helped us know what props we had to have for the scene. The storyboards helped us split up and do the scenes individually.
5. Describe any problems or difficulties you encountered during the filming process. These may include; time-management and organisation problems, damage to your sets/props/characters, misjudging the amount of time required to animate.
   We had completely misjudged the time needed to build the sets and make the characters. Also unfortunately as the sets and characters were left in a classroom open to anyone it has been damaged and touched even when a sign is put up. We then had to spend time to make the characters again. Another problem was that when we didn't finish a scene in a lesson the camera would move and we wouldn't get it back in the right position when we try filming again.
6. After reviewing progress so far, describe any aspects of your animation, which need to be addressed. i.e do you need to reshoot any scenes; are any additional shots required; are there any scenes which worked better than expected.
   We will need to reshoot a couple of scenes to make them smoother, we also need to take a couple more shots to make them longer so the audio fits with it.

Discuss your feelings about the production task:

1. Are you satisfied with your result so far?
   Yes, I think we are working quite efficiently however we need to finish the scenes quickly so we have enough time to edit them.
2. Would like to change any aspects of your film?
   Yes, maybe some of the scenes could have been shot with a smoother steadier hand.
3. If you could start the project again what would you do differently
   I think instead of being in partners I would do it by myself, as then I would know exactly what I need to do and I would (hopefully) get it done in time. Not that working with Emma wasn't great or anything.
4. List any skills, techniques or tricks you have discovered during the project.
   I have discovered that we should stick the scene we are filming to the desk so when we are moving the characters the actual scene wouldn't move.

Discuss whether you undertook adequate and detailed reflection to throughout your project. Have you provided enough evidence to support your work? (Look back at your blogs/journals and think about whether it looks like 8 weeks worth of work).

I don't think the information on my blog is enough for eight weeks but that is probably because animating takes a lot longer than I thought it would, I am now going to go back and add some pics and videos.

Here is the semi evil, semi good guy:























I will upload more once my camera connects.

In media at the moment we are creating a short film using any type of animation. Emma and I, have decided to work in pairs. The start of the film is when an abnormal child is born into a world where everything is rather grey and boring.

I'll upload some pics of the character soon.

What was your initial reaction or major feeling to this animation?
When I first saw this music video I was surprised as music videos generally don't that much animation in them, and when they do it is less obvious.

What style has been used in this animation?
This clip had used the style of stop-motion animation.

Has the director used the elements and principles of design to create mood that effectively relates to the tone of the music? How?
Yes, the director has used elements that go with the music, as when it says heart a picture of a heart appears. The images not only fit the lyrics of the song but they also fit thereat of the music which draws viewers in.

List five moments that grabbed your attention:
-where the it went black with neon colours flowing through.
-when he was singing about the heart and it grew larger, then shrank smaller with the beat.
-when to the beat of the music the drum kit appeared and disappeared.

I couldn't find the link to the video so I just decided to post another cold play video up so here is Cold Play - Strawberry Swing

Cubex is a little stop animation me and Emma made.
I think this is very cute.