Professional Creative Production 1

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Evaluation

Through this module, I firstly decided to choose Tiffany Dufu’s speech on ‘Not Enough Time’ because I felt it would give me more options of what I can do. I started by watching and listening to all her YouTube videos and her inspirational quotes. This lead me to think about Gender stereotypes and how they contribute to a woman’s mind in today’s society. I began looking up different articles that highlighted gender stereotypes and opinions of women through the decades of society compaing men and women on what they do at home. Many of them highlighted that women tend to do the most chores and childcare when they are home and the men would do hardly nothing. But this changed slowly, as women began to accept that the men can assist doing their chores and sharing out responsibilities. Resulting in the woman’s to-do list shrinking with the help of men in the household. However still in today’s society, women are more keen to try to do everything and not rely on their spouses to help, as they feel they are not able to. Therefore with this concept in mind I decided to do an animation to show this and to speak out to women that they cannot do everything and that it’ll be easier if they comunicate with their spouse and share responsibilities to reduce the amount they “want” to do in a day.

I started by planning my animation with particular scenes that would show this, with the main scene of the timeline, showing how, in the women’s mind, the gender stereotypes are still there and that she still tries to do everything even through this era, she can change and make her life easier by communicating with her spouse. With this scene in mind, I created others that would compare the two genders with how the women differs of wanting to do everything. Starting with the many women in the shot, showing the amount of women doing this activity. Then showing gears in the woman’s mind to highlight the tending need of wanting to do too much in a day. Finally resultng in a marathon of the man and woman racing against each other and the woman falling over, as she has too many things weighing her down by chains. I feel this conveys the meaning well with the comparison of the man and woman’s minds and how the woman is trying too hard to pile too many things into her day. Therefore making the female audiences feel the need to change and to reduce their amount in a day to make their lives easier and to communicate with their spouses to keep a healthy, stable relationship.

I finally decided to place in sound effects for this animation to add to the flow of animation and have the audience engage more with the scenes. I gained these using the free achieve of sounds website, freesounds.org. I enjoyed making the different assets in Illustrator and having a clear and bold colour scheme to help display the gender concepts of my animation. The animating part of this course was enjoyable yet tedious by readjusting certain scenes to make it more detailed and effective. However this made the making process worthwhile, as I am now happy of my animation and I feel it gives out the message well for Dufu’s speech.

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250 words of my Big Idea, explaining how I made my animation and the reasons why I choose this audio.

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Final Render of my Animation.

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Finsihed 10 page document showing my process of my animation and how I made it using Illustrator and AfterEffects. Also holds my Big Idea of 250 words.

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I decided that I liked my animation with the sound effects so I adjusted some of them and got rid of some sounds that are out of place and more comedic. To make it more serious. I think the sounds work well with the flow of animation and make the animation more engaging with the audience.

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Tried putting sound effects in my animation.

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Adjusted my animation with some feedback I got my Kath. Making my scenes more detailed and playing with the scale of the things more to symbolise the burden of the woman.

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Adjusted my whole animation, to do with Kath’s advice and placed the last scene into it.

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Finished making my last scene on the man and woman racing each other and the woman dragging chains of resonsibility and falls down.

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My progress over my shots from before and in progress making my last scene!

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Feedback

Adjustments: First scene - zoom out to many women that are copied of the other women. Fourth scene - the objects from other scene, falling behind woman, clogs speeding up and maybe sweat drops coming out of her. Fifth scene - Either the women walking or numbers falling on to the clogs and then all falling at the end.

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I finished the rough of my shot 5 where the woman is seen running along the gears backwards, calmly and then she appears sleeping which then makes them both fall. Still unsure if this works with the middle section being quite slow and not much going on.

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Quickly finished this shot 4 of the gears moving slowly in the woman’s brain.

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Third shot of my animation, showing the timeline and how the women is trying to handle too many things in a day, showing through the juggling of the pan and how the man just goes to work and comes back shocked. Highlighting the struggle women have in today’s society of trying to do too many things. Also used another new plugin for making my characters and using the burst for the different items popping over the pan.

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Second shot of my animation, with using the burst effect with my new plugin, giving it a fresh feeling, showing that women stereotypically think they have more things to do in a day.

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Started animating my second shot of my animation using AfterEffects and using effects like drop shadow and burst.

Started animating the third shot also, using Rubberhose as the main character walking tool and effects.

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Starting making the assets for my other scenes. Started with my second shot that I used the same style of the split colour and make the objects in the speech bubbles the same colour schemes as the people from the first shot. Then making the other scenes that would base on the stereotypical colours and that would set out the whole animation.