Animation Ident Evaluation

In class we have been learning how to make different kinds of animations and also we have been learning about idents.

Recently we were given a task to make an Ident for the college and apart of that task was to incorporate one of the stop motion techniques we learnt about.

To complete the task we had to work in groups so I grouped with Jacq Charls and Eyyaz Christy. The first thing we did together was research. We thought we would check out a few other idents  for TV channels and at the same time we watched some other claymation things on Youtube.

After researching various other idents, we each came up with an idea for one of our own. Then we pitched our ideas to each other in the group to find out who's idea sounded the best. Once we made our decision we then all made story boards for that idea. As soon as Eyyaz bought some clay for us to use for our ident, we started recording.

Recording only took 2 and a half hours to get done. During the course of that time we took pictures of my hand writing the CWC initials and both me and Eyyaz moulding the clay into the shapes we needed.  We took 2 pictures every time it moved to make it seem as if the clay was alive. The first shapes we made was the CWC logo initials and then we made it seem as if the CWC morphed into clay people and then into a ball using the stop motion techniques we learnt.

Originally I thought that the college ident project was going to be a long but fortunately our group was able to breeze through it with no problems or delays. We all worked hard and paced our selfs and got things out of the way as soon as we were faced with them. Over all it took us 2 day to complete with the hard work we had put into it. The first day was the recording day and the second day was the editing day.

We mainly focused on the claymation animation technique in our ident because the clay was the easiest to manipulate and morph which was exactly what we needed to give life to the college initials (CWC) in the video.

Once we completed our ident, we uploaded the video to youtube and then embedded it to our blogs so we could receive feedback from some of our class mates. All of the feed back we got for the ident was positive. People said they liked the CWC morphing  idea and the music we picked although one person said the music didn't suit the theme and another person said they wished it was longer.

Overall I am pleased with my groups ident. I think that if we completed our ident any quicker than we did, it wouldn't be as good as it is. My favorite bit of the ident is the bit where the CWC initials morph into people. The only problem I have with the ident is the bit just after the camera pans down from the college logo. The camera focuses back on the morph characters and they collide and turn in to a ball to symbolise unity but the way they come together can be very miss leading as some people have said that it looks like the morphs kiss. Other than that I am proud and happy with the ident me and my group have produced.