Presentation Feedback

The feedback we got after the presentation was:

• Needed to zoom in more on the seals in the first scene.
• It was difficult to tell where each scene was.
• The animation did not include the visit essex website.
• The dinner table at the end could do with being less sparce.
• The music had a sad feeling to it.

To improve these on these points text was added in Premiere Pro by Chrissie saying where each scene was and also adding the website at the end. Roman redid the last scene adding more objects to the table. Sally found new music to go with the piece and Tracy altered the first scene's camera to show the seals more close up.

Presentation preparations

We met up as a group to preview the animation and discuss who would say what in the presentation. We realised that some of the scenes were too long and that the hard edges needed to be edited, however there was not enough time to amend these before the presentation.

Adding sound

Chrissy and Sally researched sound effects and background music suitable for the animation. Nature sounds were chosen to go with the individual items / animals and a soft background music for overall.
sound references:
seagulls and swallows - http://www.ilovewavs.com/
lake3 - www.freefx.co.uk/soundeffects/nature/
canal boat - www.audiosparx.com/sa/display/sounds.cfm/sound_group_iid.3380
splash - www.mediacollege.com/downloads/sound-effects/water/
wind breeze 1 - http://www.soundjay.com/
voicereal - http://www.sounddogs.com/

Shared materials

As a group we decided to use the same settings for the sky backdrop to help the transitions between our scenes to run more smoothly. However our storyboard transition ideas did not go quite as we hoped because at the time we did not have the forethought to establish what we each had for our beginning and end frames so that they would transition freely.

Overall Chrissy managed to make the transitions work with the use of cross dissolve transition in Premiere Pro. The Dedham scene was also slowed down to be in line with the other scenes and also make it more realistic.

The scenes which we thought did transit well with little help were the Walton seals to Harlow barge, Colchester Castle to Hot air balloon, and Hot air balloon coming down to the house.

Sally produced the Chelmsford cathedral scene and the countrside scene together, but the wrong way round according to the storyboard. With the use of Premiere Pro Chrissy split the scene and swapped the two halves around into the correct order.

Animating

As a group we decided that the ideal length of the the overall production should be around 3 minutes. We therefore rendered each scene accordingly. This meant the average scene was 20 seconds long, although some were longer and some shorter according to content.

Continuation of modelling

All group members have begun work on a second scene
Chrissy - Colchester Castle
Sally - Essex countryside
Tracy - Hyde Hall gardens
Andy - The house