Shooting Script for Animation

 

Interview Evaluation Final

What went well?
This was our second attempt at this interview, thankfully Tim our interviewee agreed to do another interview, we wanted to do the interview again because in our previous the mise-en-scene was poor with plug sockets with wires hanging off the wall in the background which doesn't make for a particularly satisfying interview aesthetically. So this time around, we located a rather interesting antique 'thronesque' gentleman's chair for our subject (T.Dullaway) to be seated in, with the neck of his fender P bass laying next to him. Me and my work partner feel the look of this interview is rather basic but its simplicity works well because it shows the audience what the interviews all about; a gifted musician and his bass.

Interviewing Tim was a pleasure as me and him already know each other we used to practise in a band together, he is a very shy person so me having this insider approach he felt very comfortable around me thus giving me some great answers. I stuck to a similar style of interviewing as I did in my previous interview, I had some main questions I wanted to ask him but from then I just improvised leading a question on from his answers. Throughout the interview me (interviewer) and Tim didn't stall or hesitate asking and answering questions, I feel that this shows that it has been a great success in how the questions were presented to Tim, and that he felt comfortable to answer each one with confidence and depth.



The camera work for this interview was a joint effort as I couldn't man it when I was concentrating on interviewing so for the main interview where the camera is mostly sitting on the tripod my work mate manned the camera but the rest of the little shots were done by me as I knew these would add a lot to it in the edit. We both feel that the filming throughout the interview was a success. For some of Tim's responses the my work mate would zoom into Tim's face to possibly capture any emotion shown. This was shown when the question about how he felt leaving the Van Susans, we was hoping he'd of shown some more emotion because of this some could say sad thing but he isn't to bothered by it as he tells you about how he's involved in lots of different musical enterprises.

Even better if?

Between me and my work mate we feel that with this interview there was only one major fault that should have been noted way before the interview had even begun to be shot. It has been caught to my attention that our idea to shoot the interview in front of a window, the makes the camera struggle to focus which isn't good nevertheless I still feel Tim is in the shot fine with the light behind him nicely highlighting the outline of his head. But what this problem meant was the camera was mainly trying to focus on the light outside and not on the Interviewee Tim, this could have been fixed simply by running a couple of tester shots of the interview, so I could make a better decision to plan out a perfect location for the interviewee to be seated in.

I feel the interview was a success but I could of maybe structured the questions better in the order of how I say them, this is because aestetically it doesn't look fantastic with all the cuts in the edit, this could just be a personal prefrence but I would of rather said them in a structured order so that then the interview had more flow.

Final Film Edit

This is the final film edit for my film, 'Lost & learning'.



 







 

Focus Group

Our focus group was held with a different group (Perry's Group)

Idea one

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The other group member enjoyed our idea's concept. The main reason for this is because he thought that it linked in very well with the charity. A good evidential piece that led him to think of this was that it shows how the charity itself helps the homeless change themselves.

EBI: 

There was one main concern for the other group member about this particular idea. he suggested that another format of animation should most likely have to be used in rider to generate this idea, his reason for this is because he thinks that this would be extremely hard to create on paper.

















Idea two

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Moving onto this idea, Perry thought that this idea had a brilliant use of Lego yo portray the seriousness of homelessness whilst relating well to the youth audience. He thought that the best way to understand what he meant was the use of the first person of the homeless person, he thought that this would help dress the horrid conditions for a homeless person.

EBI: 

However there was problem that he thought would occur with this idea in a very similar way to our first  idea. That the idea would be extremely hard to create in certain parts of it, his main point towards this was the first person idea may be good in order to stress the point however it would be rather hard to create in a professional standard.

Idea three

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This idea seemed to impress the other group member the most out of the three we had generated. His reasons for this was because he that that the use of every format of animation was a good choice, such as intertwining the hands with the lego, clay etc. Another aspect that he enjoyed about this idea would be the 'voice of god' section of the piece where a voice from above shall say "turn around" He also thought that this animation was very well put together whilst still stressing the serious matter of homelessness, and what the charity can do.


EBI:

The other group member did not find anything significant to point out to us for improvement. We are very happy with this result because we thought that this idea would actually work best.

Marketing Webpage

Animation Survey Research Graphs

The first 4 questions that were put into the questionnaire were simply to gain a small knowledge of the receiver. For example their age and occupation, these two our group feel are great ways of gaining knowledge of what kind of receiver is answering your questions and possibly they may even relate to the target audience that you want to appeal to. In our case this has worked very well within the questionnaire as all of the receivers who answered were between the age of 10-19 and the occupations of these people were all students. To our group, this is great news as this makes the following answers on each question what a young person really feels should be placed within this Crisis animation (The main aim for this is to make it appeal to teenagers)

After these questions we then moved onto what we thought were the things most important to ask for this animation Piece for the Crisis charity. 'What soundtrack would you expect to hear within a charity advert' and 'What animation format would you prefer?' The first question we gained an extremely one sided opinion towards the music, which our group in fact agree with. The answer given was that the music shall be slow and tragic. We still have yet to find a suitable way of either making a soundtrack like this or gaining permission to use a certain song by an artist, this shall be done in due course.

The final question had the most mixed opinions of what shall be used in terms of format. One of our initial ideas actually agrees with using all of the materials/formats. We planned to use lego, clay, people and objects. The questionnaire results support this use of all the formats, our main aim is to please our target audience whilst stressing a serious matter through animation. So our group have agreed to use all of the chosen formats by the audience from this questionnaire in order to please the audience.

Feedback Sheets For Interview