FINAL REFLECTION FOR TERM 3

Year 9 Creative Media Animation Project – Term 03 2011

Mr Andrews

Post Production reflection/evaluation:

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

· Discuss whether your final animation clearly reflects your original concept and planning and describe any elements you had to modify when creating the project;

I can say right now that my animation right now is completely different to what I had originally planned. I have been through the design stages of many different stories and have unfortunatly wasted time planning them before deciding that certain elements of the story that I had thought up were either too hard or too expensive.

· 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 techniques? etc);

My iStop Motion skills developed a lot during the prosess because of the many test videos that Sam Flatly and I made.

· 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 etc;

My problems included not being able to settle on an idea until it was very late. I also had many technical difficulties including not being able to save onto my usb. I would also have really liked to add music to my clip to add extra effects but again technical difficulties stopped me from doing this.

· Explain whether you made effective use of storyboards and planning to streamline the animation process;

I did not make effective use of my story boards, because I changed my ideas so often I ran out of time and was constently changing the ideas on the spot and not following any plan, which I can now see was even more time wasting.

· Describe any time-management issues you had during the project and describe the steps you used to improve in this area;

I had a lot of time management issues during this assignment for reasons stated earlier.

· 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 a whole term worth of work);

My refelctions were very un-detailed and irregular, in the future I will be sure to update my blog after every lesson

Discuss your feelings about the production task:

· Are you satisfied with the final result?

I think that I would have done a lot better on my project if I hade more time to work on it and therefore I am unsatisfied with my result.

· Did the animation process require more/less time than you had thought?

The animation project would have required more time to give a satisfactory result

· If you could start the project again what would you do differently?
I would stick to an idea and be more organized with my planning.