Update of my progress

Throughout our coursework Kelsey and I have overcome many problems in order to get to the stage at which we are at now. Our first deadline was last week, however we did not meet it as it was to complete advert 1 and in rough advert 2 and 3. Although, I remain positive to meet the deadline in February and we are on course. Advert 1 will take the longest to complete as towards the beginning we had to learn how to use the software, therefore during advert 2 and 3 I feel we can achieve a finished product quicker. Lighting was a re-occurring problem as it was hard to get minimal shadows but enough shadows to create a realistic set, however we have overcome this problem by having the angle of the lighting exactly the same for each clip. Also whilst using Flash, as we were knew to the software we kept forgetting to crop the clip and therefore after editing it and exporting the clip half of the video would be cut out and therefore we would have to re-edit. Along the way of producing our product Kelsey and I have had some healthy disagreements, however we have come to the agreement to not include a mid shot of the boat and island in the corner as the audience won't be able tell it is an island and probably believe it to be a sun and as we have many clip of the boat to establish the setting we felt it wouldn't be necessary to include it. Also after I had animated most of the clips we have already completed Kelsey felt that having to in depth eyes would lose the childlike effect and therefore we have decided to change the eyes to just dots and include a mouth to enable us to create expressions, allowing the audience to understand the advert better. Finally, I believe that our advert 1 will be finished at the beggining of January allowing us to begin advert 2.