Creative Response: Final Outcome

Overall, I feel that my final outcome wasn't as successful as I had hoped it would be. Whilst I adopted many of the techniques I had researched throughout my investigation, I feel that I have somehow lost some of these throughout the making of my animation.

Whilst I have managed to create a simple character and more detailed environments, I feel that the tension I intended to create isn't there. This may be due to the length of my camera cuts and the replacement scene I used instead of the second run cycle. Unfortunately for the replacement scene, I left the character stationary because I felt that I didn't have enough time to animate it, however I feel that this takes away from the overall animation. I also feel that the animation wasn't as successful because there wasn't time to form an attachment to the character. Without a bond to the character, the tension doesn't seem as real, and I personally felt like an observer rather than actually being involved. 

This has demonstrated to me that it is not only the suspense created within a scene that makes something engaging, it is in fact the build up to that suspense and the connection that is made to the character beforehand, which is combined that creates an effective, engaging and immersive story. Reflecting upon my work, I have found that, although my animation contains the key elements of what I had learned, it doesn't quite contain the same level of involvement. If I were to do this again, I would spend more time on creating a back story for the character and I would have made the animation longer. This way I could have incorporated the opportunity for the audience to become attached to the character before he was placed in jeopardy. I feel that I spent too much time over my essay and this led me to having little time to complete the animation. For future projects, I will think about the practical aspect whilst researching to give myself a longer time frame to complete it in.