Evaluation and Reflection

 Reflective journal

28.04.25 - 04.05.25

-Uploaded the Pecha Kucha video I made last week to blogger on the page 'planning and context'

-Uploaded my Vox Pop interviews video to blogger on the page 'Practical skills'

05.05.25 - 07.05.25

This is my incomplete storyboard for my final FMP this year, i am working on as writing this so it isn't done.

I enjoy how it looks so far and am close to finishing it, once complete i look forward to compiling the frames together in a timeline to then start animating it.

07.05.25 - 09.05.25

I did more work on my storyboard and drew some additional panels

I am close to finishing my storyboard, and hopefully it will be done by next week, so I can start putting them together on a timeline and then start animating.

I believe it is going well so far and am excited to see the final result.

10.05.25 - 13.05.25

More work I have done for my FMP Storyboard 

12.05.25 - 16.05.25

This week I have completed my storyboard, I put my storyboard into adobe animate and placed it on one long timeline to get a grasp if what the final product will be like.

I have also started to animate the final product and have made good progress so far.

I have also edited my research on an animation on 'my 'research' page to be more in depth and to say what I like about and what if I would use this in my future work.

The motion tween I did with the hand of my villain

12.05.25 - 25.05.25

I fully animated my animation and here is things that I did:

I used a classic motion on the camera layer to zoom in and out or pan to the left or to the right

Zooming out

Panning from right to left

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    I also animated rubble,smoke and a yellow glowing aura which flows upwards.

Final shot of my animation

03.06.25

FMP Evaluation

My final FMP is an animation where I attempted to reanimate a scene from Dragon Ball Z.
I chose this scene to reanimate because it had a strong connection to my theme: Transformation.
I did meet the deadline set for my FMP, I set out to recreate the famous scene in which Gohan transforms into a powerful state dubbed super saiyan 2 to overpower Cell. 
I believe I achieved this, I think that it looks passable and decently choreographed with varying shots with sound effects, music and added colour to visualize the aura surrounding my character. 
I stayed behind after college to continue to work on it a couple of extra hours, around 2-3. This was difficult for me however as I experienced hand and wrist pains while drawing frames.

I believe this reaches my target audience which is 13+ as it shows wild and explosive imagery with powerful states accomplished through anger and sorrow, along with use of the vibrant golden yellow. 

I framed certain shots with having the camera behind them or above them, slowly zooming in, adding suspense.

I used Premiere Pro to add sound effects to my animation after I had exported it. I used a plethora of sounds that I had downloaded from YouTube, some of which were also used in the original scene.

I placed them accordingly to keep the pace smooth and made it so the sound was not peaking over a certain level to avoid hearing damage or inaudibility. 

I also used it to add the main backing track in the animation named ‘Gohan's Anger’, A powerful track showing the somber nature of the character while also showing off their immense strength.

I used a pc and a Huion drawing tablet to create this animation along with 3 software: Photoshop to create the storyboard, Adobe Animate to create the visuals and Premiere Pro to add the SFX to the exported video.

I used the ‘brush’ tool to draw out scenes in a storyboard template I had imported into Photoshop so I could visualise what I wanted and needed to draw next.

I used a lot of the ‘Onion Skin’ tool in Adobe Animate to see what came before in my drawing process, which saved a lot of time. i also used frames I had already drawn prior further up in my animation to save on time, not needing to redraw what I've already done

I also used the ‘Cut’ tool to stretch certain scenes to be longer, improving the timing, in Premiere Pro, which helped in the editing process.

The original scene itself inspired me a lot, along with other media that I enjoy. I wanted to try and capture the original feeling from the scene, which I reanimated in hopes of making something special to watch. 

The choice of sound and music also influenced my editing process as I used similar sounds in my final production.

I think the smear frames I included helped a lot in making the movement, along with the sound effects that accompanied the animation; they all clicked together to make the watching experience a lot better and exciting.

However, Some things did go wrong and some things were not to where I wanted them to be, such as in the exporting process in Adobe Animate, I was not able to export it as a video file which could be imported into premiere pro, instead it would export as a flash file, and changing the file type would not work as i got the error ‘Install Adobe Media Encoder’. 

Instead, I had to export it as a GIF, which shortened it down and then had to use a 3rd party website to transform it into an MP4 file, which could be used in Premiere Pro.

Other issues include the lack of colour, which I was unable to add dude to time constraints, along with shading and better line work, as a lot of it looks rough and stiff, while some scenes move, most of them are just idle shots.

Overall I am satisfied with my final product, despite some issues and am happy I was able to add as much as I could in such a short time frame, meeting my deadline, One of my main aims to achieve during this project was to better my time management to produce things on time and I think I achieved that somewhat.