LO4 4.3: Evaluating my final product

Evaluating and justification of editing 

In creating my visual effect graph I ensured i stuck to planning and pre-production documents, this allowed me to have a clear plan throughout and to make sure I was aware of the aesthetic to make sure it would fit with my short film. 

As you can see my final effect is very similar to the planning documents created in LO2, whilst in the planning stages i really enjoyed the idea of a pie chart due to its visual display of data, I think the involvement of colours means that its much more visually attractive as well as informative, this element of the graph wouldn't be shown in a line graph which as the other graph I considered placing into the short film, however after doing a draft of the graph in premiere I thought it looked very sub-standard and not at all visually appealing for the audience.

By having the pie graph surrounding the ellipses outline it allows the separate colours to curl round when displaying their proportion of data i think this element adds to the graphs main appeal however this was not shown in the planning process due to the simplistic plan I drew in the storyboard.
The appealing aspect of the graph was much more clear in the second version of the graph, I soon realised that I needed lots of bright contrasting colours to not only gain the audiences attention but to keep it, as you can see in the first version which is aline graph the colours were dark green and black, these dark and dull colours wouldn't have enticed the audience like my second version does. 

In production as mentioned earlier I began creation intending to make a line graph, the line graph would differ from pre-production as I thought a pie chart would be too complex and not display clear enough information. Whilst creating the line graph I felt underwhelmed by its visual aid and didn't think it displayed much motion to excite and engage the audience or many compelling colours or information. After finishing an early draft of the line graph I decided to change direction and stick with my original planning idea and try see how a pie chart would show the same data.

After deciding to choose to change the graph format to a pie chart I felt this was a much more understandable way to see the data for the audience as well as it being visually pleasing with the continuous lines guiding the audiences attention the full way round meaning they are being lead through the data this leading it to not be really overwhelming like graphs such as bar charts or line charts can be. I felt the pie chart was a better fit for purpose as it demonstrated the data better with stronger environmental connotations really driving home the subject and data of the graph.

After beginning the pie chart i had more of an idea of what i wanted to create and the aesthetics surrounding it, I think without making the first line graph the pie chart would've been a lot duller and not as exciting due to the line graph demonstrating important features that needed including to engage the audience.

In creating the pie chart I have demonstrated many skills and learnt a lot about the software of Adobe After Effects, however throughout the production of the graph I did run into lots of technical problems this mainly surrounding the older hardware Macs and the new software not working well together, this did leave me at certain points of production stuck for timing in relation to the deadline however by putting more hours into production I did manage to create a graph I think demonstrates well not only the data but the aesthetic of the short film.
As well as demonstrating skills on the software I have also learnt new techniques such as 'tweening' and 'layering', whilst planning the graph I learnt the various tweens i could use e.g motion tweens, size tweens, this allowed me to understand the movement I could create and how this could create meaning and impact in the graph.
These skills I have developed will help greatly in later After Effects work as I now am able to control fluid movements in the software.

The graph demonstrates the different sectors that plastic is made for, by showing this information it is very well fit for purpose and allows it to link in with my short film really well, once i started production for my pie chart I decided to show slightly different data to my first line graph that demonstrated the increase in production of plastic, and I think this was the best decision made in the process as it allowed me to figure out what I wanted to include and how to represent it.
By restarting and creating a whole new graph it enabled me to make the best version possible in terms of graph type, visuals and information displayed

In conclusion I really think my graph represents the data well in a very visually clear and attractive way, I think it really adds to the Unit 5 short film as it demonstrates some hard hitting facts that allows the audiences to see the impacts on their plastic use, this ties in nicely with other aspects of the short film such as the interview with the owner of a non-single use plastic shop.
To demonstrate in the introduction the waste of plastic thanks to the pie chart this leads well into the interviews and the main conclusion of the short film.
I was really happy how the outcome came out and think this was especially helped by the voice over that accompanied the graph, it allowed a narrative and brought audio to the graph which also held and kept the audiences attention in quite a visually focused portion of the short film.