Planning for Theoretical problems

Problems I may encounter when researching and
planning
 Not being able to find and watch any
stop motion animations to do with or
featuring robots.
 If people don’t respond positively to the
test shoots for example how the
character moves.
 Only certain ages respond positively to
the developed idea.
Planning for practical and technical problems
Problems I may encounter when filming and
editing
 Not having enough materials to build up
the scenery.
 Producing sounds for the robot’s
movement.
 Only having access to one rig when I
need two characters to move.
 Not having enough time to finish
editing my production.
How I plan to resolve these problems
 If can’t find stop motion animations
with robots, then look for them in other
styles of animations.
 Then film some more with different
movement styles or a different
framerate.
 Either adapt the idea or adjust the target
audience to suit the feedback.
How I plan to resolve these problems
 Looking online at shops such as eBay
for lots of pieces for cheap.
 Find some sounds online to use instead
on YouTube.
 Make it so one of the characters doesn’t
need it or buy another rig.
 Plan to finish my production a few days
early to then allow extra time for any
issues.

Mid project check-up (After research)

I’m finished with my research and am about to start planning, so far I have encountered a few
problems:
 I didn’t find any feature length stop motions which feature robots, instead of this I found
other styles of animations. These films being ‘WALL-E’ and then also a live action film
with robots being ‘Batteries not included’.
 People thought that my idea could do with some slight adjustments, I then decide to hold a
focus group and people preferred a slightly different idea that I proposed. This new idea
was favoured by the group and meant that some of my research differed from the idea,
thankfully the idea was relatively similar so I don’t think it was a waste of time.
 I struggled to find a range of ages to answer my surveys, I mainly sent it to peer students
and family members. Thankfully I have a big enough extended family so I could get some
younger and older responses and thoughts on ideas.

End project review

I faced a variety of problems throughout the project.

Planning:
 The robot movement was very difficult to achieve, for example if I tried to just move its
arm, I’d end up moving its whole body instead.
 I had to rewrite my script as my idea began to change. I also had to redo my storyboards
due to this.
Filming:
 I ended up running out of storage on my memory stick, I didn’t consider how much
memory the photos would add up to. I found some other memory sticks in my house, but
 they all were quite small or already had projects on them. In the end I had to resort to
deleting past projects to make some room, thankfully this gave me just about enough room
to finish my project.
 I knocked my tripod over a couple times whilst filming, this just costed me time and meant
I had to reshoot a few scenes throughout my project.
 The light I was using in the start of my production turned out to change the power by itself,
this meant that once the photos were but together it meant that the lighting was constantly
flickering. I resolved this by changing the light source.
Editing:
 I found that with the sounds of my production I was downloading a majority of them, I had
planning to make majority of them myself, but this fell through. I ended up keeping most of
the downloaded sounds as I was running out of time and wanted to prioritise other factors
such as my filming and editing colour and rigs out of scenes.
 Another problem I faced with the editing was creating a colour transition, you will notice in
the scene where the colours go from grey to normal that it fades. The problem with this is
that the end of the fade doesn’t match the colour in the next scene, no matter what I tried I
couldn’t seem to get it to work but nobody seemed to notice.