E4 Evaluation

E4 Sting Evaluation

For our assignment we worked in groups to produce a 10 second e4 sting. Me Vicky and Connie worked in a group of three, we each made individual storyboards with our own ideas of what we could do. We showed each other our ideas and chose the overall best idea; however we changed it so we all inputted ideas. The task was set just before Christmas time so we chose to do a seasonal sting and based it around Christmas and the new years. We also used the information from our questionnaires to give us a rough idea of what our target audience would want to see in a sting. Our original idea was to have a large party popper that we had made and have someone coming out of it holding an e4 logo. We looked at the resources we had and decided that to make a big party popper would be hard in the time we had, so we kept the idea similar and chose to change it to an e4 logo on a stick coming out of the party popper.

Connie changed groups; me and Vicky worked in a pair; I feel that we worked well together and we chose to share the responsibilities, we are able to sit down and just get on with our work because we were both clear about what we had to do. We communicated well together and listened to each other’s ideas on how to make the sting better. This made the production of the sting quicker because we both had the same idea in mind. When we were taking the pictures we both took the pictures and moved the props, this was fair because we both got a chance to do all of the job roles. The only separate job roles was editing the sting, I put the pictures together and added any effects to the pictures whereas Vicky was editing the music so it fit the sting and also adding in any effects to the sound.  However when adding the pictures into flash the programme kept on freezing and the sting was looking like it was impossible to make, however we found out that if we reduced the image size then the files wouldn’t be too big and flash would work, after that flash worked fine.

When we showed the animation to the class we got positive feedback saying it was good and clear that it was about e4 and based around the party season, we also got some feedback about how we could improve our sound, others in the class said that the quality of the sound could be better and if we made the sound louder and maybe a bit slower the sting would be better. If we had more time to do the project I would of taken more time and effort in taking the pictures, because we only had a short space of time we didn’t take as many as we would of liked to. Taking more pictures would have made the animation look more effective as the movement of the objects would have looked less obvious and made them look more in motion. I feel that if we planned out sting out better before we started the project then we would of had enough time to take more pictures, we spent a lot of time on making the props and also with a member of the group moving to another group the two of us had more work to do between us.

I feel that we worked good as a pair and we produced a good sting for e4, the feedback was positive, we feel that the main improvement we could of made was to manage our time more effectively and plan out what we were going to do each lesson.