Evaluation

Now that I have come to the end of this project and I am looking back on my work, I feel like I have done a lot better than I thought I would. When I first got the brief, I really wasn't looking forward to it, I was confused about what we were exactly meant to be making as there were no real examples of this sort of thing being done in Ibooks Author. I was also concerned that I had never used After Effects before. 

Throughout this project I have hit a few bumps in the road including A very last minute story change two days before the pitch due to my family having issues with the original story, Ibook restrictions lead me to have to redesign my whole idea and when I came to crit I had some major scene changes. However I feel that the story change worked out strongly in my favor, Ibooks Author is a pain with its restrictions but I feel that having to work around them actually gave my work more structure and having feedback that I need to change two of my scenes and add more animation vastly improved the overall look of my book.

One of my biggest worries was learning After Effects, but now having used it I have realised that it really is quite straight forward, it isn't worlds away from how Photoshop works although your objects move and keyframes are involved.

I have used a wide range of techniques in my work from changing the opacity over time, positioning, rotation, points of interest and scale, on top of this I have been timing my work with my interview which is something I always struggle with, but timing in this project has proved easier than I thought and I am very pleased with the result.

Although I made this project hard for myself by changing my idea, I feel the project went very well and I am truly impressed by how my work has turned out.