OUAN505 - Final Crit

On the day of the final crit we showed the majority of the scenes we had at hand and discussed any final adjustments that could be made with Sara and Martin. At this point none of the scenes were sequenced together in a final way but were simply scenes strung together during the making process in After Effects, so this is what we showed. Up until this point the idea for transitioning between scenes was to have the objects and various sections of a scene move off screen to make way for the next scenes assets moving on screen. There were some issues raised with this during our final showing of the animation, particularly that the time it took to move the different aspects of the scenes in to place made it so time was lost where the audience could view the visuals and it wasn't a pleasant viewing experience because of this. In other words, it was over complicated and perhaps a little bit overkill. We were told to tone this down or find an alternative way to link scenes together in a creative way. With this in mind we went away and found that we liked the idea of having page turns to transition from scene to scene. Using a page turn made it feel like reading a book, and since the animation was made of paper this had a certain charm to it that worked quite well. The page turn from scene to scene is quite a nice effect but we didn't end up using it for every single transition because it lost some of the impact it had, so we tried to use it more sparingly.

This was the main point that was raised during our final crit, however Martin also mentioned the use of text to back up facts and statistics that we were discussing in the narration. He was referring back to a conversation we had earlier in the project as a group about the use of text and he mentioned again during the crit to highlight as many of the statistics as possible to aid the audience in understanding the importance of what is being said. A positive that was mentioned after showing what we had done is that Sara said what we had done was really nice visually, and that the quality of the scenes was good but things like the transitions needed to be smoothed out. We were also asked about the music and if Gavin's friend was still able to produce it for us, we relayed what we had decided within the group that we're collecting a back up soundtrack in case we don't get the music in time but it that it would be good to get the music done specifically for us. Finally, there was also a concern because of the perhaps lack of completed scenes we had to show that we wouldn't be able to finish on time. However, we had a lot of scenes in the works that just weren't ready to be shown. I do understand the concern and I think we will be able to finish in enough time. At this point I think everyone knows what they have to do and what is left to be completed and because of this I don't think that we won't be finished in time and the animation will be completed when the deadline comes.