Evaluation

Evaluation

 

There are many ways to get feedback from an audience, and I only took a selection of these; I got my responses by holding a focus group in class, handing out a questionnaire, looking at comments on the YouTube video and also social media sites.

Other ways I could have possible chosen to use were exhibitions, reviews, discussions or alternate social media outlets; which include tumbler, twitter, Google plus, Facebook or BlogSpot.

In my responses I tried to cover 9 different areas to make my animation a success, these are as followed:

Genre, I wanted to know what genre they would categorise my animation, getting their opinion on whether it was funny, scary, sad or romantic. Due to the fact that most of the already existing Estings would be classed as a comedy I tried to create mine in that style. Thankfully in all of my responses everyone had said that they would have classed it as a comedy.

Content and style, to fit the brief it had to have the style of an Esting and the content also had to be something you would expect to see. This includes the story and how you represent the characters and style of characters. From the feedback I received they all said it “fits in nicely” with the existing E4 Estings the style being similar and the content was funny and described as “weird” or “random” but the general response was it was “light hearted and fun”. I was happy with that response as that again is fitting in with my brief and would go well as an Esting.

Character, the general response was that everyone liked the character, they thought that he looked good and when in motion looked believable; moving stiff like and making it seem like he did have those aches and pains when getting up.

Technical, overall I was praised on the technicality of it they all said they like the shot variation, as it helped the flow of the animation making it more interesting. They thought that the characters were created efficiently and to a good standard. Other responses included “very well put together”, and praise on the fluidity and smoothness of the video however I do have to emend the sounds and audio effects as in places they wrong or none existent. It has also been recommended that I have the old man more quite or have his noises more subtle to make the screams stand out more.

                               

 

focus group

In the focus group we held I got feedback on my animation, the points that everyone like and thought were good are as followed. They really felt that both my character design and set design were aesthetically pleasing and well made, praising me on my creative skills. They thought that it was fluent and smooth with movement with only a few errors in places, the shot variation in the animation helped this and also made it more interesting. Everyone said it was fit for purpose as the content suited the target audience having a quirky and funny style; therefore the comedy genre was evident in the piece.

The improvement for my animation was one that I myself picked up on and that was the audio or lack of to be more exact. There was an issue when uploading the sound to the editing software and it did miss out a section, so this is something I will have to amend, I also have to add a sound clip at the end where the E4 logo crashes onto the shed.

 Evaluation part 2

There were a few different constraints that I had to bear in mind when creating my final product.  I personally did not have a financial budget, though this was down to the fact that I used the resources that the collage provided, with plasticine that I used to create my characters, all others like the scenery and detail in which along with the video and editing equipment I also used the colleges resources that I had at my disposal. I had to ensure that no copywriter material was used in animation at any point so to ensure this I used all original ideas and characters within it.

I feel that I did use effective time management skills in this project thought when shooting I did very nearly run over the deadline, however I just managed to finish on time and the rest on my project I managed to complete the objectives in the time specified. I feel that I met all requirements set in the brief, and this is reinforced in the feedback that I got from my peers, making an Esting that was suitable and fitting with the target audience as well as being enjoyable. I also made amendments when it was required by the tutor that being the sound issues and the movement of the character; after these amendments had been made I had met all requirements asked of me.

I think that for future times I should perhaps spend some non-lesson time on the project to ensure a better outcome so that I do not have to make additional amendments. I should also again improve my time keeping skills so that I have a better overall outcome.

The feedback that I received was from a wide range of people, which I am pleased with as it gives a fair and unbiased point of view, those who gave me feedback include peers, my tutor and also it was open to anyone in the general public to give their responses via social media. Mentioning social media, that was just one of the outlets that I allowed people to send in the responses, other forms include, paper based and email questionnaires, a focus group, personal one to one conversations and a comments section within the showcase website ‘YouTube’.