In week 11 of Performance and Character, we reviewed our work on the dialogue exercise and were given advice on doing the last assignment before hand in, the short story.
I was feeling rather nervous about showing my dialogue piece, as I knew some areas I needed to improve were in the arms but also about what some may say about my performance and in the framing.
When showing my work it seemed that everyone seemed to like my work in terms of animation. However there were a few things I needed to consider. One, which Ollie suggested was to clean up some of the frames in the animation. Elena and Holly seemed to think I needed to adjust the frames in the near start of the animation and in the slamming fists down when the teacher says Missy.
I felt rather confused by what they were referring to and would need to examine my work closer to see what she meant. The tutors observations were that Johny suggested I looked at the angle of the shot where the teacher is talking to the student. He suggested last week I looked at more dominance angles for the teacher and I responded by making the characters bigger in the shot. Johny's feedback seemed to refer to the dead space in the background.
I could see what he was trying to tell me and may alter the camera shot in Premier or in the animate file this week.
Looking at other students work I would think I was most impressed with Adams, Holly's and Ollie's as they ran smooth in their chosen animation style like stopmotion and 2D and they delivered their performance and dialogue very well too. However I feel Holly could improve on her frames and use of her dialogue in terms of action.
We moved onto discuss the Short story animation, and Joe our industry tutor suggested the story we told should have a reaction from the audience. The reason being if it gets a positive/funny reaction from the audience it would succeed. I could see the sense behind this as movies like The Avengers or Disney's Wreck it Ralph tries to get the audiences reaction whether they found it funny or exciting to watch.
An example of this was in the chimpanzee shampoo advert that we were shown by Annabeth at the start of Creative collaboration.
I felt for the short story I needed further details, so I discussed it with Joe. I explained my plan which was to have a comedic game of golf, and showed him the Daffy Duck tantrum dialogue that I was planning to use.
However he explained how in the module we were limited to the dialogue we had in Black board, which whilst disappointing did make sense. This was good that I brought up the matter before I started otherwise I would've made a grave mistake.
Looking back on the session I would think I learned a lot from the feedback given and could see where I needed to improve. I could make sense of the feedback given to me and was intrigued by some of the feedback. Such as Johny suggesting I look at the characters eye whites or a video about eyes in animation.
I believe I could've improved my explanations more in my feedback and possibly asked questions to other students work such as aligning dialogue with stop motion footage for future reference.
In conclusion I have received helpful feedback on my animation and further details in the short story assignment and hope to put it to good use in development in my work.
In future I shall ask more questions about other students animation to gain insight and ideas to further or develop my work and approach different animation medias for refining exercises.
I was feeling rather nervous about showing my dialogue piece, as I knew some areas I needed to improve were in the arms but also about what some may say about my performance and in the framing.
When showing my work it seemed that everyone seemed to like my work in terms of animation. However there were a few things I needed to consider. One, which Ollie suggested was to clean up some of the frames in the animation. Elena and Holly seemed to think I needed to adjust the frames in the near start of the animation and in the slamming fists down when the teacher says Missy.
I felt rather confused by what they were referring to and would need to examine my work closer to see what she meant. The tutors observations were that Johny suggested I looked at the angle of the shot where the teacher is talking to the student. He suggested last week I looked at more dominance angles for the teacher and I responded by making the characters bigger in the shot. Johny's feedback seemed to refer to the dead space in the background.
I could see what he was trying to tell me and may alter the camera shot in Premier or in the animate file this week.
Looking at other students work I would think I was most impressed with Adams, Holly's and Ollie's as they ran smooth in their chosen animation style like stopmotion and 2D and they delivered their performance and dialogue very well too. However I feel Holly could improve on her frames and use of her dialogue in terms of action.
We moved onto discuss the Short story animation, and Joe our industry tutor suggested the story we told should have a reaction from the audience. The reason being if it gets a positive/funny reaction from the audience it would succeed. I could see the sense behind this as movies like The Avengers or Disney's Wreck it Ralph tries to get the audiences reaction whether they found it funny or exciting to watch.
An example of this was in the chimpanzee shampoo advert that we were shown by Annabeth at the start of Creative collaboration.
I felt for the short story I needed further details, so I discussed it with Joe. I explained my plan which was to have a comedic game of golf, and showed him the Daffy Duck tantrum dialogue that I was planning to use.
However he explained how in the module we were limited to the dialogue we had in Black board, which whilst disappointing did make sense. This was good that I brought up the matter before I started otherwise I would've made a grave mistake.
Looking back on the session I would think I learned a lot from the feedback given and could see where I needed to improve. I could make sense of the feedback given to me and was intrigued by some of the feedback. Such as Johny suggesting I look at the characters eye whites or a video about eyes in animation.
I believe I could've improved my explanations more in my feedback and possibly asked questions to other students work such as aligning dialogue with stop motion footage for future reference.
In conclusion I have received helpful feedback on my animation and further details in the short story assignment and hope to put it to good use in development in my work.
In future I shall ask more questions about other students animation to gain insight and ideas to further or develop my work and approach different animation medias for refining exercises.
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