2. Week 1 :Research
During this time I mainly watched Youtube videos to get a better
idea on how to create animated characters. Most of the
youtubers I watched already knew how to draw which made it
harder for me to understand and keep up because I can’t draw.
Instead I decided to look up websites that would help me create
animated video’s using existing characters.
- I also did some other research alongside this
The main websites that got
recommended were
Animaker, Powtoon and
Renderforest
These were the
only 2 video’s that
gave me useful
information
3. Week 2: Research
This week I tried most of the recommended websites I found
on Youtube. The best ones I found were Powtoon,
Renderforest and Animaker. On most websites I had to pay
or it would leave a watermark on the video which isn’t what
I’m looking for. I was able to get a free trial in the ones I
chose but Animaker was the one that had the best options
and animated characters that I really liked including a wide
range of different interesting samples that could help
me get started.
4. Week 3: idea
development/Planning
During this week I looked at different sample
videos of cartoon, Video and Social media.
This helped me get a better idea of what I will
be going for in my documentary.
Once I became familiar with the website
I started creating my own character.
They didn’t have any characters of kids or
babies which is pretty disappointing
as I am planning on including a talk about
kids and children in my documentary so I’ll
have to replace that with a Google image of
a child
5. Audio
I was planning on doing the audio myself but half way through
the week I realised that my voice didn’t sound right for this
documentary so I asked a friend that I knew would be intrested
in this to help me, she agreed and managed to do it within the
next 4 days.
While she was taking care of the Audio, towards the end of the
week I decided to start editing and creating scenes based on my
script.
6. Script
I think that my script was one of the hardest things in this
project. I had to re-write my script at least 3 times because it
just didn’t flow well or it there would be too much
information.
I recorded my second attempt to see how long it would be
and it ended up being just over 5min so I tried to remove
some facts and information that isn’t really that interesting
and now my final script is about 4 min.
My script was first
about 1 and a half pages
long which was just
under 5min long
