evaluation stop motion

EVALUATION for STOP MOTION ANIMATION

Make an accurate and critically objective assessment of how well you think you made your animation (an unbiased analysis – in other words step back and truthfully analyse your work).

You must give detailed reference to feedback from the audience and detailed examples from your animation to help you explain.

Stick with the same format as your questionnaire and write a paragraph on each of the following:

1. Genre – 2. Style – 3. Narrative – 4. Character – 5. Techniques – 6. Technical qualities 7. Aesthetic qualities – 8. Creative qualities –

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FIRST evaluate how well you think you made the work and THEN reflect on the feedback received and whether you agree with this.

All through the evaluation try to compare your work to animation and films/TV shows that you drew inspiration from (is yours as good as Bagpuss for example? Your animation and movement might be better but your storyline may not be as detailed) Who is your target audience? Also analyse why your audience would like your work. Is it funny? Would the narrative keep them interested? Does it offer them escape form their life? Would they recognize something of themselves in the characters or story?

This will help you decide why your animation will appeal to the audience: http://www.stixy.com/guest/87922 Make some reference to the different types of answers that you will get from different processes you used to get feedback (questionnaires, focus groups and Facebook/YouTube comments) -­‐ essentially because you have asked different audiences for feedback

For example:

“The genre of our animation was War and Action – the reason this is obvious to the audience is because we used the iconography of a War film (for example “Platoon”) – such as camouflage clothes, all the relevant props such as guns, rifles, jeeps, bazookas, blood. Also the narrative is clearly exactly what you would get in a War film – a battle scene with over the top violence and ‘dumb’ one-­‐liners such as “remember this for

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Christmas” – this reminds me a bit of the scene in “Predator” when Arnie says. The characters were typical for this kind of film also as they were big bulky ‘meatheads’ who were ‘trigger happy’…

Most of our audience in the questionnaire agreed with this although 15% said it was a Comedy – perhaps they thought some of the lines were a little ‘cheesy’ and therefore funny – however I don’t really agree with this feedback that it was a comedy because so many people died and the characters are really traumatised when their friends die – but can see. One person said that the Genre was a Romance but this was a response to the Facebook questionnaire and they were obviously being stupid on purpose. This shows that the type of feedback you receive is in some ways related to who you ask and where you ask them – because all the questionnaires filled out by teachers and classmates gave serious answers and also very detailed ones.”

For a distinction you need to use terminology throughout the evaluation -­‐here’s a list of possible terms:

Frames Per Second Iconography (visual element that tell you the genre) Lighting (high key & low key) Consistent lighting Narrative, Protagonist (main character), Cliffhanger 3 part Narrative -­‐ Set up (introduction to narrative), Confrontation (main problem/conflict of narrative) Resolution (ending of narrative) Mise-­‐en-­‐Scene (Costume, Locations, Props and Settings, facial expression, body language)] Camerawork – Close Up, Medium Shot, Bird’s eye shot, High angle, ECU, Extreme Long shot, Two Shot Camera Movement – Pan, Track, Zoom, Dolly Soundtrack – diegetic and non-­‐diegetic, sound effects, synched sound, lip synching Editing – Continuity, Jump cuts…

Limited movement, smooth movement, ‘jumpy’ motion Cut out, Pixiliation, Claymation, Target Audience (Age, gender, Reformers, Mainstreamers, Succeeders, Aspirers