Step 1
1. Here is my final submission for the E4 ESting competition.
Step 2
1. For the evaluation and feedback proportion of my E4 ESting I will be using a written report, this is due to the many benefits of a written report and written feedback including me personal being most comfortable with writing my reports up on blogs or word documents, also for people responding to my questionnaire in a written format makes it easier for me to send it around as well as them being able to go into much deeper detail for example reasons why and how they felt about certain things. Furthermore a written reply is great for the questionnaire as it makes much it simpler and effective for creating graphs and statistical charts.
2. Once I completed my project and was satisfied with the project it was Publicly uploaded to the Colleges YouTube channel which it was seen by people browsing the channel and I was also able to create a copy of the URL or a embedded version of the animation which I was also able to place within my blog and email to the appropriate people for feedback. Other ways I consider sharing my animation was through social media websites/apps such as Twitter or Facebook but I felt it likely was not going to each the age group I was appealing too. I also had the option to post my animation onto a short film viewing websites such as 'Vimeo', 'shortoftheweek' or 'annietfest' but felt the same issue as not appealing to the correct age group as well as most of the sites requiring a up front cost to upload your films which I felt it was unnecessary.
3. When it came to how I was going to distribute my work for feedback via questionnaire my options were limited as I needed to get the responses in a reasonable time and the questions also needed to be answered professionally. This made me shy away from spending it to random people via social media so I opted to use my personal connections and lead me to create a email chain filled with people who would appropriately answer the questions I provided. The audiences I asked was a mix of male and female with multiply of each students and teachers. Here is a list of the persons I sent it too;
The questions I asked for my feedback are as follows,
1. Who do think the target audience is for my project?
2. What did you think was the content and narrative of my project?
3. Did you notice what style of animation my project was in? e.i stop motion, clay, puppet etc.
4. What did you think about the props I used and the production quality of my project?
5. Did you notice any animation techniques in my project that you may or may not have seen prior? e.i style, FPS, multiply objects moving together.
6. Did you feel in a sense that the objects were alive living in their own world?
7. What did you think about the scenery and the colors of my project?
Here is a graph of the feedback I received regarding which age groups the people responding thought the target audience was.
I obtained my feedback through e-mail. There was varying amounts of praise and constructive criticism but the general feeling I had was that people though it was enjoyable but but have seen better. To highlight some key phrases I received answers like "Fairly Creative", "Nice bright coloring", "Cool idea and looked clean/smooth with high FPS", "Smooth with no jumpy cups or clips out of place etc.", "Good idea with nice editing" and "Creative and props used well".
Comparing my intentions of my ESting with the reactions from my feedback. Previously in the blog I posted a graph displaying the results of the the question "Who do you think is the target audience for my project?". The majority of people said teenagers and young adults, this was what I had intended for my ESting and was pleased people could see this. Another interesting thing from the feedback was from the question "What do you think was the content and narrative of my project?" My intentions of the narrative was the two different colors of paper fighting to display the number or letter they wanted, which was the white color showing a 'E' and the purple paper showing a '4' and then after the 'fight' they decide to join together and make E4 Logo. 2/12 people who answered my feedback understood this but I understand it was not super clear what was going on and I know next time how I can make a more clean and understandable narrative. Next, I will compare the reactions of the question "What did you think about the scenery and the colors of my project?" 4/12 people stated that they found the background boring which was just a tabletop so I understand, this was not my intention but I felt at the time it was appropriate because it was close, in my classroom and meant I didn't need to leave the classroom every time when I was filming, next time I will be sure to review all my options and spaces I can use to record to maximum how good the scenery can be and step outside my comfort zone. Furthermore, 7/12 people also commented on this question saying they liked the bright colors and lighting which was also nice to hear as I did intent for my project to come across in this manner. My intentions were for the colors to seem like their own characters and I thought a good way to do with was to use bright colors and edit the contrast as best as I could plus it matched with the E4 colors as well as making it pleasing to the eye.
Another question I asked and was "6. Did you feel in a sense that the objects were alive living in their own world?". To this question I would have been pleased if around 4-5/12 would understand this as I was trying to make its seem as if the paper notes were characters and alive. There was a lot of varied answers rather than a straight yes or no which makes me feel like people half felt that way but not really. 6/12 did partly understand this but not with certainty, next time I will be sure to enhance the way the characters look and the world around them to make them feel much more life-like and as if they are if their own world.
Overall I was happy with the feedback and I am fairly happy with the ESting I produced and I know next time what I can do to improve and make a better piece of animation which will help me to improve my grade and skills in animation.
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