Evaluation

Evaluation

There are many ways of getting feedback on your work; some of the ways can be communicated online such as when my uploaded to YouTube that allowed other people to see my E-Sting and leave a comment so they can have their say. Another way you can collect feedback is by sharing links to Facebook to gather information that way; or sending out questionnaires via Email can be another very effective to quickly gather feedback from people.

My character’s appearance is similar to that of a sewer dwelling mutant; this image is reinforced by a matching sewer style set that gives my E-Sting a strange almost creepy feel. As my character is not a human he is not bound to the physical realities of human behaviour, this made it easy to be creative with what I could do with the character. His head rotates 360°and his forked tongue protrudes from his mouth; as well as his feet fully detach from his body and walk on their own.

When gathering the feedback from your work it is important to know what to improve on; if you receive feedback suggesting your animation is jumpy then you have to work on the technical and aesthetic qualities of your animation. If they find your storyline hard to follow then you need to improve the narrative qualities of your work.

Collecting responses for your work is absolutely vital if you want the feedback required to improve your work; thankfully there are quite a few different ways you can receive feedback from your audience. One way is through conducting a focus group; which is a method I used with my work, a focus group is where you gather feedback from a room of peers which can be very helpful to your work. Another method is as simple as submitting your work to a video website; I uploaded my video to YouTube and soon enough I had a wide selection of feedback from the various YouTube users.

Additionally there are also several different ways I can report my findings; I could make a written report or an oral presentation, writing a blog is also a way of reporting your findings. I am presenting my evaluation in the form of a blog.

There were several constraints on my work during the production stage; financial issues were a big obstacle as materials for my animation were limited, I often had to waste time making a colour that I needed for my piece. That said, regulatory issues such as those imposed by Ofcom were not a big constraint as I had not made anything that could be considered offensive. I was also aware of copyright issues that could be a constraint on my work but I avoided trouble by using some copyright-free material available on the college network.

Managing time was very important for this unit but I do feel that I managed to complete my animation in time for the deadline set; so my time management was good. I also felt that my animation was very suitable for the target demographic it was intended for; and my work has been praised for its surreal qualities.

My feedback was generally very positive; I was happy to see other people enjoying my animation and its unique appeal. My experience of animating has been interesting; I have always enjoyed animation but having worked on this unit I now know that I would not enjoy a career in stop-motion animation. I would still like to try some work on animation but not in the particular style we undertook for this unit

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