Evaluation Statement

Review Of Final Major Project (FMP)

Jessica Parry                                                                                Media Production.

The Notion Of Chance.

For my final outcome I made an animation based on my experience in the London Bombings. I feel it was a successful piece of work as although it is based on a tragic event I wanted it to be portrayed in a contrasting way and I feel I have achieved this. My original Project Proposal was very much based on the butterfly effect, the notion of chance and the notion of choice however I decided to look into my own experience more and look at death and the fears surrounding that.

I have updated my blog 3-4 times weekly and written a review at the end of each week, which has really helped with the development of my project. I have stuck to my original FMP Plan and the targets I made have been a good structure for the Final Major Project. I used my sketchbook for notes and useful research I found, along with storyboards, character design and interviews creating a journey I have been on throughout the seven weeks.

The targets I have reached from my original FMP Plan are 1. To complete my research, 2. Develop and experiment with ideas, 3. Complete the animation. Whilst completing my FMP I added a few more targets to help me reach my goals, these included: Experiment with different animation techniques and carry out tests and experiments when making the final animation to ensure it is fluid. These targets were very helpful and adding to them as I went along helped me to notice things that I had missed.

Developments I have made along the way include developing the idea from a tragic event to a childs innocent view of the world. I also created many different endings as I wanted to see which one worked best. I developed my characters design to no facial features as I didn’t want their expression to determine the viewers emotion of the story. I also developed some of the scenes to make them look more sinister by creating masks on after effects and following the character across the scene. I experimented with the colour in the animation, I tried no colour, full colour and rougly coloured in, with colours that you wouldn’t expect. 

I received a lot of helpful advice from other sources throughout my project including galleries, films and books in order to achieve my final animation and the best ending I should use. I found the weekly group crits and group reviews we had very useful as I gathered feedback on what I had completed that week and advice on what I should look at next. I also enjoyed looking at other peoples projects and giving them my advice and feedback, and watching their projects progress.

A few key points I will take away include improving my time management, so I had longer to create the animation and had time to do reshots and add extra scenes if I needed to. I would also draw more frames per scene so my animation looked more fluid. I have developed many skills including life drawing, rotoscoping, using istopmotion and the planning of the overall project. Next year I am going on to do a degree in Animation so all these skills I have learnt throughout this project will be very useful. I will continue to further my knowledge on istopmotion and continue to work on my drawing skills by attending more life drawing classes.