iBook Evaluation and Self-Reflection

Evaluation

Year 9 Creative Media Animation – Term 04

Task 4: e-pub, commentary and poster self-reflection and evaluation:

I am very satisfied with my finial results of my poster and I really enjoyed making it. I am also very satisfied with my iBook. The I-book took less time then I thought it would. It was a lot easier then I thought it would be. If I were to do the iBook again I would add more detail to all my pages and change the layout of my pages.

My iBook did not turn out how I thought it would. I wasn’t to sure on how the finished product would look when we started this task because I had never done anything like it. My iBook does not look like an ordinary book. It has pictures in the background and lots of different colures throughout the whole iBook. My iBook and poster clearly depicts the style of our animation. This is because the iBook, poster and animation all make use of lots of colures. In the iBook the background pictures are pictures of the particular scene is about and the poster has an eye with a flower in it pupil as its background, this depicts the style of the animation because in the first scene of the animation there was the same picture but it was animated. I didn’t have any difficulty’s while doing this task the only trouble I ran into was forgetting my USB stick with the iBook on hand in day. This was fine as Mr. Powell let me hand it in the next day during morning tea The make my poster I had to get two pictures off the internet then I used Photoshop to blend the two together to get the picture I wanted. After that I just used word to add writing.

Steps I used to plan and develop our project:

1.    Put all the scenes in order

2.    Make dot points for each scene

3.    Do backgrounds for all the pages

4.    Elaborate on dot points for all the scenes

5.    Find pictures for my poster

6.    Use Photoshop to make poster background

7.    Finnish poster

8.    Fix up any last touches

I didn’t encounter any time-management issues during the creative process except on the day we had to hand in the assignment I forgot my USB stick. Other the then that I made sure I had my USB stick everyday so I could get the iBook done without any last minute stress.

Overall I really like this task and think it was a good assignment for our class to do and I wouldn’t mind doing something like this again.

Animation Analysis Task

Animation Analysis Task

Factory film

The absence of colours and windows in a factory scenery made me feel sad and dull, which helps the producer capture the message it think she was trying to get across. This film made me feel like we waste too much time working and not enough time enjoying life.

In my opinion the most striking element of the film was the amount of I-stock being used and how dull the film set was. The most interesting elements of this film were how all the people are doing the work. In today’s society new gadgets, machines and robots are often used in these types of working environments. In this film the hard work is done by hand. It even shows a giant hand doing actions of picking up and dropping things, I also find it interesting that the hand is actually not picking anything up. This helps the producer to get her point across, this is because the actions that the hand is doing is all for nothing. So in a way it’s saying that maybe we are working for nothing as well and we should and stop and enjoy life. Another interesting point in this film is the absence of windows, which make to film set dull and grey.

I think that there is two meanings too this film. The first meaning is that we all work too much in todays society and sometimes it can be all for nothing and that we should spend less time working and more time having fun. My second theory is that the producer thinks she does a lot of work on her own with not much help. The dullness in the film shows that she isn’t very happy about this.

My overall impression of this film and that she use’s very good techniques and it is very good in capturing the mood she wants to audience to get from it. I think that she has got the meaning of the film across very well and smoothly, although some of the parts in this film I don’t get but maybe the director did that because she didn’t want to audience to and it was a secret to her.

The sounds played an important part in this film. Use of factory noises in the background helped to make the movie set sound boring and unenjoyable. The background sounds played a big part on the mood of the film, they made me feel bored, sad and they made think about why should have to spend our life in places like that if we live in such a beautiful world.

This animator’s technique in this film is simple and smooth. She makes good used of I-stock and photo-shop throughout the clip and her storyboard comes across very well and gives you many ideas on what is trying to be put across to you.

This animation would have been very well planed. Everything in this clip has a meaning to it; from the use of no windows to the black and white scenery everything has been planed to make you get the impression that this is a very sad and boring working space. She has also used objects like ands and milkshakes to get you thinking about what is the meaning behind the film.

By Helena Hewitt 

almost done!

The semester that we have been working on our animations is now coming to an end with only a week left to finish our animations. I am confident that i will have it all finished by the due date with it all put together as one with all the sound needed.

I-stock

Today i used i-stock to add to my octopus scene. In the i stock i took pictures of my hand doing a flicking moment, this will later be added to the animation of the octopus so it will look like my hand is flicking the octopus up into the air. this will then go on the the next scene of the octopus turning into a bird. 

octopus scene

This is my first scene that i did. it is a man turning into an octopus. to do this i just zoomed in on the face and then changed the shape of the face into an octopus with each different frame.

walking man

This animation is also from the start of last term. in this animation we made a man look like he was walking across the scene.