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This was the our first draft of our ‘finished’ film which we presented for the Final Presentation. We considered it done as all of the planned animations had been completed as well as all of the rendering. The narration was also ready to be edited on top.
However we knew there would be changes that would have to be made after today’s feedback session which we were more than willing to incorporate to create a final film.
FEEDBACK
Alec, Mike and Helen suggested we change the following:
- The narration sounded too much like a news report. Either find a new narrator or edit the existing to be shorter and slower.
- Think about adding music
- Increase the amount of close ups, to make sun bigger and clearer on screen
- Fix Granny inspection animation (looks like lid would fall off if it were happening in real life)
- Redo travelled guy lifting the teapot away from counter animation (looks too aggressive)
- Add a squash and stretch to teapot
- Add motion blur to the sun
We took on board all of the changes that were advised and made a list of what we advice we wanted to follow… taking into consideration the time we had left and our own creative visions about how WE wanted it to be.
CHANGES THAT WERE MADE
- We made an executive decision to remove the narration altogether as we were able to get a score for the film that we loved. The music gave it a new feel and made the narration unnecessary.
- We re-rendered some shots so that the teapot was closer to the camera but also cheated some other scenes by scaling the footage up in After Effects
- Natasah made adjustment to the Granny’s inspection of the teapot animation
- I added motion blur to the sun zooming around the teapot of fixed it’s animation
- We re-rendered the scenes that had a sun texture animation applied when it was not animated, using higher quality images so they didn’t look as pixelated
CHANGES THAT WERN’T
- We did not add squash and stretch to the teapot as we liked the strong contrast between the squishy/bouncy sun character and it’s hard/fragile shell. It added to the idea it was very breakable. We wanted the focus to be solely on the sun, as the sun was the only alive charter, the teapot was not
- We did not redo the animation of the travelled guy lifting the teapot away as we liked how it came across as aggressive. If he had of lifted it gently it would have taken away the illusion that the guy was wanting to harm him with the pen etc. It set tension and hinted at a more violent end meaning the ‘happily ever after’ end was more of a surprise
Dylan Cooper 