Peer Review

In preparation for my peer review I brought in some story boards of my ideas, my proposal and my sketchbook with drawings and colour samples in. Before this crit/review I still felt quite a bit lost and wasn't really happy with where I was going with the animation. I knew that I wanted to do the 30-60 second animation but I wasn't happy with the content of the animation as thought it didn't necessarily relate to the brief and needed to be more simple and effective. 

I feel so much better after talking my idea through with someone. I am pleased with the honesty that I received as it has actually been very constructive for me. They said that it all seems a bit confusing and need to have more of a specific focus. I was focusing on one book as a whole. But was advised to look at one quote in particular, and because I am supposed to be advertising for a documentary I should look at some quotes from Agatha Christie and work with one of them. 

Also, after this crit I feel like I need to organise myself more so I created a time table to work with. And photocopied some storyboards to help clearly display my thoughts and ideas for my animation sequence. 

After the advise I was given about quotes I found one that stuck out to me to have a good potential animation. 

"The best time to plan a book is while you are doing the dishes." Agatha Christie. 

I have now decided  that I shall still stick to the same beginning that I did before in my storyboard of having the manor house and zooming into the window but this time when you go into the window you see Agatha Christie there washing her dishes. And then this will zoom closer to her and thought bubbles will appear from her which will illustrate some key ideas/scenes from the book "The mysterious affair at styles" which I have mainly focused on. Then at the end the quote will appear. 

 After creating my story board Elena showed us some contextual videos to help us get some ideas on how to add text and sound to our animations. One of the adverts gave me an idea for my animation to have the whole animation done in one continuous line. This I feel relates to Agatha Christie and her writing; murder mysteries and that everything in some way links together to the final bigger picture. 


Suzanne Deakin - Olay 

Olay Line from Slinky Pictures on Vimeo.

Also, I have found this video on youtube which also uses continuous line.