Applied Animation 2: Planning

Due to the nature of what we want our final animation to be we decided that we would try and start our interviews as soon as possible, and so we created a timetable to work to for this project.

So far i feel like we haven't done the best job at following this plan, particularly as a lot of changes happened with the Interviews and Research section. This was because we had both organised to go home and interview our own families and friends for this project. Though it has been extremely useful to visualise what we need to do and when we need to do it.

We had originally decided that we would go out into the streets of Leeds and interview strangers in the streets,  however we decided against this for a number of reasons, we felt that we wouldn't be able to get the audio quality that we needed as Leeds is usually very busy, so a lot of background noise, furthermore, because its so busy, we felt that people would not be willing to step aside to sign a consent for and then do an interview standing in the cold. And finally, we both felt that we would not necessarily be the most comfortable for us to interview strangers, and though it sounds a little pathetic, neither of us have had any experience with doing professional interviews, so we felt that our first project that uses interviews would likely be much more successful if we are as comfortable as possible, and then move on to strangers from there.

Despite mostly interviewing our own family, we decided that we would use consent forms as we wanted to treat the whole project as professionally as possible, after altering an already existing one by Sara, i had a consent for ready to go. I also made a parental consent form by changing all the "I"s to "My Child"s.

From here i will go on to do a test interview.