Our task for this project was to create a short animation following the them of London: Then & Now. And at first, I was quite excited but also stumped for ideas since nothing immediately came to mind. It took a moment for me to even begin thinking of a possible animation of my project but once the idea started to conjure in my head, it was clear as day.
Throughout the course of the entire project my project never took any major changes other than little tweak to the method of presentation so that it would be a little easier to animate, as well as immerse the audience in greater volumes. Other than that, my idea stayed consistent, although that may have been because I couldn't think off any other ideas to begin with, which could have been a possible downfall of my project but also a strength the allowed me to continue with relative ease, simply leaving the rest up my level of dedication.
Although dedication to my project was a huge driving factor for me, at some point I ended up losing all motivation and drive to want to complete the project once I had seen that it wasn't probable that I was going to complete my project to my vision's standard and from there, it went down hill because I would see how far behind I was in the project and the later I left it, the further behind I fell and the more I didn't want to even attempt catching up since the goal seemed to keep pulling away. And in the end I didn't do anything to over come this problem. This sudden slump in motivation is something that I'll have to make sure I keep tabs on and must take control of if I wish to be successful in any other future projects. There was also the issue of the whole corona virus pandemic, however that didn't serve as much of a problem for me and instead work in my favour to an extent since I was able to work on my project consistently without breaks in between so my focus could be completely stream lined and uninterrupted. That was mostly the case, but there were also many domestic responsibilities I had to take care of so there were still many breaks in my work schedule.
In regards to the skills I've learnt during this project, there aren't many since I mainly built on skills I already had, but one skill that I learnt and could come in quite handy was script writing using the intended format, the fact that it was a script without dialogue forced me to actually understand what I was doing so that I could create a silent movie script that accurately conveyed it's events and immersed the audience. So in the future, whether it be a project in the course or something else, my newly learnt script writing skills could serve me quite well.
Throughout my project, there was numerous amounts of research, however the key portions of research were mainly regarding things I wasn't so sure of, such as script writing, which I conducted quite a large amount of secondary research on, that I referred back to constantly throughout the script writing process. Other than that, majority of my key research was primary research, which was conducted with the whole class, such as our London trips. These trips definitely helped in form some of my artistic decisions and the ordering of scenes in my animation to attain, possibly the most satisfying outcome.
I feel like there are numerous shortcomings in my final piece, but they all stem from one large short coming f mine, which was my inability to carry on working on my project once I had reached a certain point. Although I don't think my final piece would've been finished even if I carried, it would have been something a lot more noteworthy if I had kept pushing through the little slump in motivation I had. Letting a slightly tough time deter me, is something that I will not let happen again in the future because nothing of real value comes from it, and if I really wish to improve in anything I mustn't be weak to any feelings of discomfort.
Overall, I would say that my project was a disaster, however I was able to learning a tremendous amount about many things during the course of this project, whether it was directly related to the project or something that I learnt during the time of the project, which will most definitely help me achieve greatness in the future. So although the project it self was a failure, what I gained form this failure is priceless.