Evaluation by Beth

I feel that our choice to do animation was a good one because we are pleased with the initial result, however I feel that we needed to plan out time better and may have needed more ideas to begin with. I do feel that we put an adequet amount of effort into the ideas that we did however and the shot list, props and equipment was well planned.
The filming went well with the exception of a couple of lighting problems, such as shadows and background lighting when we shot on different days. For example, at 1.10 in the rough cut. After the first lesson filming, we got the hang of the actual method of animating pretty quickly and were able to set up the camera and props in a shorter amount of time. This also meant that we were able to work at a quicker pace and get more work done.
On the rough cut deadline we discovered that we still didnt have enough footage which is why the rough cut has a 30 second gap. We decided that the music and lyrics of the song ended 5 seconds before the timings say it does so the footage will end with the music and the remaining 5 seconds will be black.
The footage still needs to be re-ordered to fit with the music but it is mostly already in the correct order,. The editing should be fairly quick as we only need to put the new shots that we will film in with the current shots and fix some lighting issues.
We still need to film some new ideas and some close up's so that we have a variety of shots.

After receiving feedback from various people on our rough cut I am feeling confident that our final product will be a success.