Evaluation
· What elements of mise-en-scene have your used and more importantly,
justify your choices i.e. how have they added meaning through these devices?
I used Dude, because he is
cute and audiences usually fall for the cuter picture, this helped engage with
my audience using an innocent figure. I also used lots of different backgrounds
to show change the mood and make it a little happier, to show that wow there is
nothing wrong and then I change the set to the beach because that is my main
plot where dude drowns. I make the waves move slightly to give the effect of a
real beach and to continue to engage with my audience. Instead of just using
dude, I used a life saver because I thought it was much more effective and
related to safety of the beach, because the job of a life saver is to help at
the beach and to keep a look out for People in danger. In the end I displayed
Dude again only to represent and bring back the idea of what happened to other
people and to him, to bring out my final message.
· The style of animation and how it fits the message.
My message was about to
obey safety rules and the consequences there are if you do not follow it. I
think that my animation wasn’t effective enough because it doesn’t really make
you feel like it as an important message it was meant to be. I think with more
time I feel like that I could have done better, using more movements and better
techniques. I let Dude drown because I think the message is much more effective
when there are consequences, and audience will feel bad that just because there
was a simple rule and Dude didn't follow it and he ended up giving up his life.
In this animation I used only line animation because I thought it was much more
effective.
· You should critique the pace of the work and the reasoning behind your
choice
My message is fast and
forward, mostly because I didn't have enough time but also I think that there is
more happiness and shown in a fast forward animation and then suddenly he just
dies I think that it doesn't make sense but it really brings the purpose that
one minute your happy and another you’ve lost everything suddenly, because they
didn’t follow a simple rule. I think that the pace I chose worked well with my
animation It brought out my main idea and smooth at the start then suddenly
everything happening so fast.
· The length and justify in relation to meaning/communication.
The length of my animation
was 29 seconds, I used that much length because I know if I were to watch an
add I would want it to be short. Short advertisements seem to have more effect
on the audiences like Mr Powel said. Keeping it short was a little difficult
since I had a lot of messages I wanted t cover. I coped with my animation
duration with making my animation frames different each time so added the
messages in different frames and not putting it all in one go. If my message
animation was long it was most commonly going to go over my audiences head and
they would have not gotten my message.
· The sound and decision making around that.
I used a happy song in the
start to bring out the mood only to shock my audiences with a sudden drowning
sound from dude drowning. Using a happy song, I revolved my thinking around
when I go to the beach I like happy music that's all I hear, So I thought to bring
out the mood I could use the happy type of song selection. Then I thought, it
wouldn’t make sense to leave the happy song on for the whole time especially
when dude is drowning, so I added some drowning noises just to give the effect.
Think that I could have added a sad type of theme to the end because it is
something sad when you here about all the deaths caused by some preventable
accidents.
· The necessity for any written text and the choice of font/size
etc.
The texts I used in the end
to add an effect to my message, are important, they provide the audience with
more information about my message and the reason of this add, to prevent a
death caused by drowning, Why? Because, they don't pay attention to safety
rules or aren’t aware while at the beaches. While I was doing my assignment, I
didn't know how to trace fonts or if we could do that, after seeing the rest of
the classes was then I realised, that we could but it was to late to change it
then
