Feedback from the audience and our response....

To gather feedback from the audience, we uploaded our completed stop frame animation onto YouTube and Facebook. Also, the clip was shown to individual people.

YouTube Feedback

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On YouTube, most of the feedback was positive with few comments on how we could improve the video. We also had a chance to respond to the feedback, what showed interest in the video. 

We received a suggestion that the video could be slightly longer, however timing was one of our limitations, therefore we couldn't make it as long as we wished to. 

"Good idea, although the camera doesn't appear stable in few moments.", I definitely agree with this observation as at some point it was difficult to keep the camera stable. Some movements of the camera required the use without tripod; therefore some parts weren't very clear. To improve this, I believe we could spend more time to create slow and constant movements to keep it stable and carefully consider the moves of the camera. 

Based on the audience feedback, I believe that the choice of music and the way we used it worked really well. Also, the idea of our understanding and representation of time as well as the typography was considered as successful. 

Facebook Feedback

On Facebook, we also received mainly positive opinions about the video. It was described as creative and it showed experimentation.

"Very fabulous work overall, the only thing I could mention is that at some parts, the camera seems to be way too shaky, especially at the but it focuses on the arm and sort of pans around it at 0:39s, so if you could slightly improve the flow of those frame transitions it be absolutely perfect"
Again, the instability of the camera in being mentioned, therefore in another video, the movement of the camera would be the main concern for us.It would be useful for us to practice 'pulling' and 'zooming' to get the right.

Feedback from individual people

Feedback from individual people contains positive feedback as well as negative. 

"Lighting and set was very well considered-The lighting had soft effect that was appropriate for the feel of the animation and the soundtrack" 

We focused on the lighting a lot, so that it creates the right atmosphere and draw viewer's attention to the main character. The lamp we chose provided the soft glow.

"Not sure about the newspaper background-what was a significance of it-some of the newspaper text was a little distracting"

I tend to agree on this comment at some point, as the background could be found distracting, however our point was to make a symbol of reality and description of what's happening in the world represented by the newspapers, while the main character stays without changes. 

"Panning out to show both legs was a good idea and worked well"

We tried to make the composition run fluently, however we didn't want to make it so simple, therefore we continued the pattern on the visible areas of the body. The panning in was successful as it seemed easier as we concentrated on this subject matter in the camera viewfinder. 

"The following pan -it didn't work so well as it was not so fluent"

Again, we experienced difficulties with keeping the camera stable as our experiment required a lot of movement. It was much harder to maintain focus on the subject when panning out. 

"Animation too jerky on the arms"

I tend to agree with this opinion as some parts of the pattern didn't work very well. Especially, in that particular point, the camera was slightly out of focus, however our point was to make the pattern slightly terrifying so it describes the story. We should have re-shot this part and taken more care with depth of field.

"Continuity not correct on close up of the hand on guitar fretboard" 

Keeping the camera stable, creating pattern on the body and making a movement of the camera was a very challenging task. It didn't work as well as expected, but it gives an idea of what we tried to interpret. Again, as we would want to improve the video, the movement of the camera is one of our main aspects. 

"Why did you choose to do a portrait orientated film?"

One of our limitations was the space we could use when taking photographs, therefore we avoided having unwanted objects in the camera by choosing a portrait orientation. Also we needed to concentrate on vertical movement, this meant that the portrait format was appropriate. 

"Overall well paced-the movement of the plant/leaves up the body was innovative-I think a good starting point for further work"

"Soundtrack choice was a spot on-very appropriate for the pace the and movement in the animation" 

We spend a lot of time on thinking and researching the soundtrack, however I also believe the combination works well. 

"Typeface used in credits was excellent-it matched the organic flavour of the paintings on the body"

We wanted to keep similar quality of the typography to the film itself creating it manually. 

The letters were created using a fine liner pen and each part of the letter was gradually added as the photographs were taken. It took a lot of time to produce that particular part of the film as the whole process had to be done carefully so that the video is fluent.