Interview Reflection

I have mixed feelings about how this week went. On the one hand, I’m very pleased with the end model and our set, as well as the footage that we shot. However, I can’t help but be disappointed in myself that I didn’t get anything animated, at all.

We shot our footage before the end of the first week, last thursday. This should have left us with loads of time to build all of our assets and animate them. However, due to my computer at home not having a FireWire port, the footage just sat there on the tape until Monday, which was really annoying.

Then when it came to taking the footage off the camera, we lost a whole day fiddling around in Premiere, watching it back and editing the sound levels, as well as selecting that audio clip we wanted to use. It didn’t help that we had to switch computers several times as other people needed specific software that was only installed on the computer we were using.

Creating all of the assets for the set also took a lot longer than I thought, just due to the nature of how they’re made. This bit really couldn’t have been helped, but I could have managed my time around it a whole lot better. Also Narika made the character out of a high quality clay, which had to be left overnight to set and ended up cracking when we tried to animate it.

In the end we decided to leave the animation and continue to refine our set instead, as we couldn’t have possibly animated anything in the time that we had left. Over the christmas break I have decided that I will be animating my own version of the audio clip in Flash, so that I have something to show for this week and to put it in my showreel for University.