Evaluation

It is my personal belief that overall the project was a success, as I've never done any type of 3D modelling or animation before.

Some of the problems I encountered with this module is that it was very time consuming, this made it hard for me to try keep up the amount of work needed each week, due to other commitments such as other modules and home life/work.

I found that my final video was surprisingly good for my lack of knowledge with 3D studio max and even though I changed my original storyboard, I still believe that my current video is of a decent standard.

To me this module was both interesting and irritating as I liked the idea of creating a trailer for James Bond as i enjoy the films but I found that actually creating the models and then trying to animate the trailer was extremely challenging for me as I've never done animating and I don't have any artist skill.

The quality of my video, I believe to be of a high quality as when using Premiere Pro, I managed to export the edited video as a HD FLV. This format seems to give the video itself a very clear and good look, some of the models could use improvements in some aspects.

The way I created my animation was so that the person watching saw the different scenes and wondered about what was happening and got them interested, the reason I did was because I sat and thought about what kind of things interest me about trailers and I realised that it was wanting to know what happened in certain parts of the film rather than all the action scenes.

I feel that the overall video could have been created differently using different techniques, such as maybe having some more first person shots or showing more action scenes, as I know that making a trailer based on my realisations is bad practise as the majority of people might not be interested in the same sort of style I am and might prefer all action scenes or some different style.

The audio I decided to use was the theme tune from Casino Royale and I only used certain snippets of the song as I wanted to relate the audio to the video. The way I have tried to do this is by doing things such as putting apart of the song that is not only catchy but also has lyrics such as "I've seen angels fall from blinding  heights but you yourself are nothing so divine", this part of the song plays whilst the scene where James Bond is jumping between two cranes and then another part where part of the lyrics are "You know my name" when the end scene is playing, which shows the 007 text shatter into pieces.

I had a few issues when trying to edit the video in Premiere Pro, this again is probably down to the fact that i've never actually used the editing software before and I hit a learning curve, though i eventually got the video how I wanted it, using fade to blacks between the different scenes and then also using an effect that skips between two different parts of the audio effectively, this also manages to keep the "energy" within the clip.

In conclusion I believe this module was a success and I ended up enjoying seeing all of the different things that 3D studio max had to offer. I think at the start of the semister I failed to realise how much time and effort would be involved within the assignment and therefore I think I put my other module before this one as that was also time consuming. Looking back to the start of the semister I'm shocked how far my animation skills have come along, though still quite lacking compared to some, I am still quite happy with my progress.