Stop! Think!

After the group presentations last Thursday I came away feeling a bit disorientated about what I need to do as I felt I had all my ideas together but no specific plan of how they will appear on screen. So I need to stop trying to animate and rethink and plan exactly what I am going to do using an animatic, I do have a few different animatics but they don't include everything I want so I need to go back to the drawing board. Some advice given was to make an animatic out of the footage I had already animated so that I can keep adding to it until I get the final piece. I also need to work on sound asap because I felt that the piece was slow paced which isn't the message I wanted to portray and Chris mentioned that if I added in my sound it would feel less empty. Also the piece lacked energy in just appeared that the boat was moving at the same speed throughout the animation and I needed to show struggle/excitement/frustration/anger ECT... Another aspect it didn't think was working was the use of transition shots I need to think of more interesting elements to move from scene to scene as it isn't working well together, they work as individual scenes but do not flow nicely together.