AICE Media Studies AS- Monserrate, A

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      I made some final revisions to my portfolio project to see if there is some additional tweaking that I need to do, and after a few trials on watching the film, I think it is safe to say that my portfolio project looks pretty good. I feel good about my project and the feedback was really useful.

      After I added the typography at the beginning and at the end using PremierPro, I added an additional non-diagetic sound in the form of ambiance music so that the introduction does not seem out of place and that fits the mise-en scene of the film.

      My project needed to have more exposition in the beginning, and the idea that one of my peers suggested was to add introductory typography to make the project more like a movie. I succesfully looked for the right font so that the introduction could be suspenseful and intense. The words will be edited to be faded in when they show up to give that element of suspense and mystery.

     There have been varied criticisms about my project. One of the positives was that someone mentioned that the project looked professionally made. It took me a long time to get the drawings together and I really appreciated that someone recognized those efforts. Another person mentioned that each of the characters looked very distinct from each other. The designs of the characters were designs that I had for a long time and took me a while to translate them into animation, so I am really glad that I was successful in making the designs look distinct. Also, one person mentioned the use of the music in the project; they really liked how I used the music in the big reveal at the end of the project and how it synchronizes to what is happening.      While there were very meaningful positives, there was constructive criticism on how I could improve my project. One of these criticisms was that I need to put a little bit more context at the beginning of the proj...