Focus Group

Animation Feedback

After completing our Final Major Project, we had to get together a focus group made of people in our class in our target audience. The point in a focus group is to give you feedback on your work and show their attitudes and beliefs towards it.

All of the feedback was good and most of it we improved our animation upon.

The group that they used said that they liked the animation because it had a quirky feel to it. They liked the creativity of it and it wasn't something that they had seen a lot.

When showing our group the animation, we had our production name at the end, just before the credits. They suggested that we move this to right at the beginning of the animation because it flows better with the style, seeing as before the production name was after the quote. After moving it to the beginning, we agreed with them that it looked a lot better and flowed well.

Another point that was put across was the suitable length of the film. They said that the film was just the right length, any shorter and the story would have been rushed, but any longer and they would have got bored and waiting for it to end. 

While Jack and Blair were editing the music over the top, they purposely left a gap between the songs and this was something that our focus group picked up on too. They suggested that the music flows and starts straight after the other, as with a gap it seemed unfinished unintentional. We highly agreed with this, and so put the music together, which went well.

Finally, when we showed them the finished animation, we hadn't yet had a chance to put sound effects and foley on it. We wanted to get the feedback from the focus group on whether or not they felt we should put foley on it, because of the simplicity of the animation and mainly the music all the way through. After watching it, they thought that we should put sound effects on only the main sounds in the animation, as to not over crowd the sound with the music, and so this is what we did.