Evaluation

Due to the fact I had to compress this file to enable me to upload it, some of the text is difficult to read. Therefore, below are the links to the prezis from my video.

Main product conventions on Prezi

Ancillary product conventions on Prezi

Evaluation Q4 on Prezi

FINAL PRODUCTS

Just to reiterate and make sure there is no confusion between which versions are final edits and which are just drafts... here are the final versions of everything.

A front cover to a magazine for the series.

A DVD cover for the series.

The title sequence to the TV programme.

Logo progression

So, after speaking with our teachers again, we realised we hadn't show much progression of our logo. So, I'll upload some screenshots etc now of the different stages we went through to achieve our final version. :)

These were all fonts we liked (from www.dafont.com) which we thought may be appropriate for a child based audience. At a very intense level of scrutiny we will illuminate some choices. 


- Number 2 we felt was a little too sharp on the edges (as sharp connotes harshness).  
- Number 3 is a little difficult to read because some of the letters are rather wide so this would not be good for our TA who would struggle to read anyway.
- Number 4 - same reasons as number 2.
- Number 6 - some of the letters aren't formed correctly which would not help children whilst learning to read/write.
- Number 7 - uses no uppercase letters for names, which could teach a bad habit.
- Number 9 - same as number 7.
- Number 11 - feels a little too formal/adult for our TA.

SO... we were left with these options...  






We weren't 100% happy with any of these, and wanted to find a 'hybrid' of a mixture of them.














We also decided we wanted to use the characters tails within the logo (like the Peppa Pig logo does) because we thought this was a rather stylised featured and thought it worked well with our characters tails. Here is one of the earliest hand-drawn ideas we had of this.




So... this finally progressed to our logo which is a combination of the fonts we liked and the tails included.

Final animation

After a long process, and a lot more time than we initially thought, here is our final animation. The music was created in a programme called GarageBand and the voiceover added to the animation and music in iMovie. We chose to not have voices for Barnaby and Hazel - instead we have sounds for them. Barnaby is a low, slow sound - to represent his personality. And Hazel is a high pitched, quick sound to represent her. This is a stylistic feature that we thought we would like to try, even though it is not conventional. Our TA responded well so we decided to go ahead with this.

Script for voiceover

So originally we had our voiceover artist John record a selection of sentences - based around the same simple one. (E.g. "This is the hutch where Barnaby lives" and "Barnaby lives in this hutch".) We did this to allow us some freedom of choice when adding the voiceover to the finished animation. We have come up with a rough script of the order of the voiceover clips we will hope to use. It is as follows:


This is the hutch where Barnaby lives. He is a rabbit. This is the tree where Hazel lives. She is a red squirrel. Barnaby and Hazel live at the end of a long, long garden. Say hello Barnaby. Say hello Hazel. Barnaby is Jonathan's pet rabbit. This is Jonathan.


Obviously the voiceover will be over and around some music which we are creating in GarageBand at the moment.

Update

Just a little update of what's been going on :)

DVD cover!

The general process of creating our DVD cover started similarly to that of the magazine. We looked at some already existing covers of DVDs and found that they seem to have a theme, for example some have snow or beach could be possible themes. A DVD titled 'Christmas time' would include an episode about Christmas, but then also other episodes about things other than Christmas.. so for example about where snow comes from, and another about family visiting. The title usual mainly applies to the first episode on the disc. Each DVD in the series would have a different theme to it, adding uniqueness and also desire to collect the whole set.


So, we decided we wanted our DVD (and first episode on the disc) to be titled 'Barnaby's Birthday'. We chose this because it is alliterative, and therefore memorable, and also birthdays are something that everyone experiences so all children watching would be able to relate to it. We wanted to make our cover more interesting by orientating it around the theme of birthdays, so we gave Barnaby a present and Hazel a party hat and balloon. We also changed the 'i' in 'Birthday' to a candle - which is something the older end of our TA might pick up on and find quirky.

This was our initial design. Obviously because of the nature of DVD covers, text is usually on the back cover which gave us more freedom with image and 'white space' on the front cover. We showed this to our focus group - who all said they liked the inclusion of the birthday elements of the design (the party hat etc). An controversial element which was brought about from the focus group was that the logo wasn't on the cover anywhere. Some said that the characters were just as good as having the logo there, however some said it would be better to have the logo. So we tried it with the logo, and we both agreed that it looked good and would help improve brand recognition. (Also, conventionally DVD covers do have the logo so this also helped us reach our decision.)

And here is our FINAL version of the DVD cover with improvements made.