Creative Response: First Draft

My infographic is very nearly complete, and I've only spent a couple of days on the production. Once I got into the swing of animating, I found that I was producing around 20 seconds a day, maybe ever more as the animation process itself isn't too difficult. I didn't do a great deal of planning other than the thumbnails I created based on my research plan and I have simply been animating each section as I go along, and moving onto the next section once I was happy with how it looked. If I was unhappy with it, I would simply move the text around, or try a different transition method. This didn't happen often as I would usually layout all of my text and components first before deciding upon what animation technique I was going to use. I found that this was a very efficient way of working as it meant that I was very rarely correcting mistakes. 

First Draft

I started of using a camera to move between the text, in case I wanted to have some of the text at different angles like I did at the end of my transition testing. I soon decided against this - though I did like how it looked in my test - as I didn't want the animation to be too complicated/dynamic as I thought this would make it harder to read. Instead I stuck to a selection of motions that I had previously experimented with, only this time around I tried to give the text some anticipation and secondary action when it was flying onto the screen and leaving it. I also tried to split up the different motions so that it wouldn't feel too repetitive and boring, which I think I have done quite well.

The only thing I am unsure of is how I am going to end my animation. The animation at the moment doesn't seem to end on anything significant, and I would like to have a question or a statement to end on so that there is a definitive end, rather than a cut-to-black. I want whatever I choose to make the viewer think about their own views on gaming, and how they think the gaming industry has or will change.

I also need to consider sound. I definitely think it needs a backing track of some kind, as a ~2 minute info-graphic seems to drag when you are sat watching in silence. I don't want anything to distracting though, so I am going to avoid anything with vocals, and instead shall look for something that is fairly uplifting and relatively upbeat.