LAUAN504 - Evaluation

My evaluation of LAUAN504

Competition Brief:

The competition brief was a mixed experience. We chose the Burger King D&AD New Blood Awards for our brief. Being director AND producer for a group of two, it was quite easy to achieve my creative vision, and I believe that all in all the outcome of this brief was very good. Working together with someone who's strengths I knew was very helpful for the outcome of this brief. Initially there was complications, as we started as a group of three but one member left very early into pre-production. Because of this, we switched ideas to something slightly more suited to the both of us, alternating our style to something we both enjoy more.

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With this idea switch we leaned onto something a lot more over the top. While we didn't produce too much work, I believe that the work we did produce was good enough or even very good in the circumstances. The time management on this project wasn't very good however, as I feel we could have produced more work for the time we had. I feel that this brief also improved my creative decision making, which I will be working on in the years to come. In addition, I have become more accustomed to online competitions now, which is incredibly helpful. I will be entering competitions where I can over summer. Overall, I enjoyed this brief, but it was quite frustrating at times.

Documentary Brief

First of all - due to the Covid-19 outbreak, I feel that the quality of this project was hindered due to complications of working conditions and being away from university. Some things were cut from the final project due to time constraints and limitations, despite the deadline extension. An example of this can be seen in some of my scenes:

For example, in this scene I wanted to also animate the roman logo on the banner, however I needed to move on from this scene by the time I finished this portion. This is one example of the hindrance I experienced during the creation of this documentary.

Despite this I feel that this is my best work so far with a group project. I enjoyed making the backgrounds and animated scenes, and I am very happy with the final outcome. Because of this project I have produced various background illustrations which I am greatly fond of.

This project has GREATLY improved my time management due to my role as producer. Admittedly, this is the first project where I've made a gantt chart, and I feel it's helped a lot. I will be using this method a lot more in the future.

LAUAN504 is, without a doubt, the hardest I have ever worked on animation projects in these two years. Compared to LAUAN404, the workload was far higher and in a shorter time frame, not to mention that I also had to work on another module simultaneously. Working on 2 different projects for this module has really pushed not only my animation skills, but my time management and producing / directing skills. In addition, due to the outbreak of Covid-19 and having to move away from university, it was quite a struggle to keep ourselves on track and to achieve our highest potential for this module, but in the end I feel I have achieved a lot.