Our project was about making an animation advert. The advert was advertising a cake. Our brief expressed that the advert can only be 30 seconds long.

As a group we had to do pre-production, production and post-production. During pre-production we had to create an idea with drafts and do a storyboard. I made a storyboard, which Ryan improved on. And I drew how our characters originally going to look like. We also made food out of clay for the video such as eggs and flour. We also had to make a piece of cardboard into our adverts background. I made eggs, helped paint the background, make pieces of the set and made sugar.

During production we used stop-motion software on the computer and a camera on a tripod faced down at out set. Usually one person would be on camera while the other is handling the stop motion software except for cases when both of us were on camera and one of had to reach over to the computer while still on camera.

Later we edited the video using adobe premier. Ryan put the composition together while I made a graphic for the end. We also searched though a hard drive and the Internet together looking for sound effects suitable for the advert. We had a few problems through out the creation of our project. Such as we had to change the style of our advert so we would be able to make it sufficiently. Also I was ill a few times throughout the production of the advert but Ryan carried on gracefully. Also we had trouble making a clay cake so we resorted to buying a real cake instead.

In conclusion I think the project came out well. The animation was smooth and the music worked nicely with it. The production stages went though smoothly.