Studio Practice: Weekly Production Diary- Applied Animation Week 7

Group Crit/Presentation

This week we prepared for our Group presentation where we would be presenting all of the work we have done on the project so far while outlining what we have left to do and gathering feedback from our peers as to how we can improve our work. While most of the feedback we received from the crit was positive, we didn't do the best job at explaining what our animation was about, with some people confused as to whether it was a documentary at all, There was also some criticism as to how much work we have done so far, as we've all been working on other modules as of late and left applied on the backburner while we try and complete those tasks. Much of the class was already at the animatic stage and we haven't even started on the finalised storyboards yet, which I put down to poor planning on our part. We had wanted to get started on the animatic by this point in the project, however we recently became bogged down in writing the script and just haven't had the time.

One key area of concern which came up during the presentation was the length of the animation. During the presentation we ran through our script on a scene by scene basis, which led to some of our peers, including our tutor, to question whether our animation will exceed the 2-3 minute mark, casting doubt that if that is the case we will even get it finished in time for the deadline. After reflecting on the script after the crit, we decided we needed to cut out some of the scenes so we don't surpass the 2-3 minute mark in our animation, and tweaked the script, cutting out some of the transition shots and longer narrator monologues.

Finalising the Script 
This week, after taking into account feedback from the crit, we finished the script for our animation and began allocating sections of the script through colour coding to storyboard between the three of us. We each have around roughly a third of the script to create storyboards from over the next week. I have been tasked with storyboarding the final scene in the animation, which is the longest uninterrupted shot, so careful consideration must be taken when boarding the shots as to ensure it is doable.