Within todays workshop this is the feedback on what I have achieved last week and what my plans should be for the coming weeks and easter break.
What I should do next:
- Look more into style – because of the content I am covering within my animation I want to make sure that my animation does not mock mental health or create something that my be patronising or too sophisticated for my target audience to understand. Character are going to be a very important element of my animation so I need to make sure that my target audience are able to connect with them in order to best understand the message behind my mental health animations.
- Feedback from target audience – In oder to make sure that I am actually creating something the my target audience would be engaged in watching I need to get their feedback during the development of my project. Because of this I will try and get feedback from my target audience at least three times during the development and creation of my animations.
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- First I will gain their feedback on my colour pallet and style. I will create a small animation that will demonstrate these two things and show it to my target audience and then collect their feedback on whether they liked the style a colour or not. This will then help me to make any necessary changed before I am too deep in the development of the project.
- Second I will send a small clip of one of my actual animations that shows they style and the content of my animations. I will then collect feedback on what my target audience though of the animation and the content and whether they understood what was going on. This will help me to know whether I need to explain things more or if I need to go into more detail in explaining about mental health.
- Thirdly I will send the completed animations to my target audience and see whether or not they liked the animations and understood the content being discussed within them. I will also gain feedback from the parents from this one as well to understand whether they would want a resource like this in schools so more children could learn about mental health.
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From this feedback my plan for the rest of this week and the easter break is to:
- Finish experimenting with the different animation software
- Start developing storyboards
- Create a style guide
- Gain audience feedback on animation style
- Begin Developing my actual animations