Evaluation

I think that the unit went pretty well, and I am proud of the animation that I created. I wanted to give myself a challenge and do something different from Flash. I decided to use After Effects and I think it went really well. I used tutorials to teach myself kinetic typography, and it looks better than I expected.

The video itself came out well and I liked the colours and background I used as it suits the subject matter and the content, whilst looking sleek and professional. Learning how to use the camera angles was frustrating a first, but look brilliant once finished. I think the camera angles are the best bit of the animation as they make the whole thing come to life. Statistics is a boring enough subjects full of numbers, so I chose to use bright colours and polished backgrounds, everything that statistics are.

I found the research extremely difficult in this unit, which is strange for me as usually I enjoy researching around the units. I was set on using statistics as my fact and yet there was next to nothing about what I was looking for on the Internet, apart from in random journals and mathematician websites.

We had a few flash tutorials with Neil which went well, learning how to make star boy and buttons. I enjoyed these lessons but didn’t find it a challenge as I already learnt it over the past 2 years.

Creating the video went well but as I originally was going to use music in my animation, I found it difficult to sync my voice over to it, and unfortunately the spoken words wouldn’t match up to the written words. This didn’t necessarily look too bad, but I would have much preferred it if the matched up properly.

I also think that the words might be a little bit too fast in sections, making it a bit difficult to read. However as there is a voice over reading out the words, it makes it a lot easier to understand.

I think that I put the negative side of statistics across properly as the brief asked, and it is pretty persuasive that statistics are wrong and makes people think twice about using them in certain situations.

Overall I really enjoyed the unit and I think that the work came out to a good standard. Due to personal reasons I didn’t have as much time and I needed to create an amazing animation and fix things that could have seriously improve it, but I am still proud of it and I think it is very effective.