Personal Module Evaluation
Firstly we were set the task of randomly choosing a location which then our project would be based on, so for this to happen we had to visit our location and obtain a good idea of what this area was like by the people and the artefacts around. In my group we visited the area individually and all obtained images before coming back together and producing our work in front of each other and what we found out, this way would have a better idea of what everyone saw and found out independently rather than going as a group and influencing views on each other. We decided that the final outcome would be for students as our location was based around the universities and colleges and creating a zine that would connect well with students. We then started off by researching example zines, a good artists we found for this was Sarah Silverwood who created a people and places zine and newspaper design. This way by creating a zine we could all be assigned a double page spread and show off our work and skills individually. Another idea we had which we was then going to follow was creating a timeline of our location and looking into the history. Firstly we decided to go to Birmingham library, unfortunately none of this happened due to the lack of communication in the group and team members not attending to group meetings, this then caused for the group to fall apart and everyone going off doing their own work.
I then focused on doing the project alone and as I have previously made an animation I thought about doing that again for this project and experiment more. I was inspired to do this after doing the graphics workshop and using Photoshop animation and also film and animation workshop. I did some research into artists who made animations similar to mine so that I could expand my knowledge on creating this. I looked into Lotte Reiniger as well as Kara Walker who created puppetry and silhouette figures in a style of a creepy fantasy look. As I ran out of time because of all the planning with the group and ideas not being developed, I didn’t have much time to create my animation and was left with 4 days to plan the animation, create the animation and also sort out my blog I also didn’t have the resources that I needed ready, because of this I chose to make my characters and make the stop motion animation on a white background so that these would be easier to cut out digitally and I could then superimpose them onto the backgrounds, which would be made up of my own work that was originally going to be used in the zine and my photographs which I had first taken.
After I had my characters cut out and took my pictures of the movements for my animation, It was a struggle obtaining these images as it was a dull day outside and I needed a steady lighting so that the images didn’t show a huge difference between each one, because this was an issue I had to play around with my camera settings and use the skills that I learnt from the photography workshop. I then transferred these onto Photoshop and made my animation that way. However during this I came through a lot of struggles as an error occurred about the scratch disks and the animation becoming a large file. To avoid this I had to separately place each image onto the backgrounds and save these as JPEG’s which I wanted to avoid but this was the only option left. I then transferred these images into adobe premiere and created my movie that way. I chose to use Adobe Premiere because I have experimented with this before and wanted to learn more and teach myself more on this software. This turned out to be a success and simpler than I thought, however I did come into trouble trying to find the right quality and video style to save my animation in as I wanted this to be clear but not too large of a file.
In this whole processes I came across a lot of downfalls and struggles to make this happen, so considering I am pleased with my outcome. I found this to be successful in the resources I had to use at home and without having any help and support through this. Nevertheless, now that I have my final outcome I do believe that I can improve this a lot more from the knowledge and experience that I gained throughout these past few weeks. I am disappointed in the time management because of all the stumbles we came across in the beginning as a group and the lack of communication that was shared, I feel that if as a team we pulled together I could’ve still made my animation but with a lot more time and with better resources from the university making this a better outcome overall. Yet for the time that I had I am pleased with what I produced bearing in mind that it was all done in a day with cutting out the characters, taking pictures and editing each individual image before putting them together in Adobe Premiere as well as teaching myself how to use Premiere. I also think I could’ve improved the sound by going back to my location and recording sounds from there rather than using the music that I did with the sounds that I had. After this experience I would like to try and work collaboratively again and hope to work more on my time management.
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