Evaluation...

My original planned idea has differed from the actual animation I have produced, this is because I felt the simplicity of it worked a lot better than the way I planned it.

By using istopmotion I was able to produce my animation using settings such as "onion skin" I was able to ensure that I could move my characters back into the same position I had them in before and I could also move them as much or as little as I wanted to. I also set it to 12 frames per second meaning I had to make sure for every second I had to face 12 frames.

Originally I had made a voice over with Saima to add to my footage which was supposed to represent the boxing commentators, they shared a few laughs and jokes and some ouchs and woahs. But I felt that it made it look too amature and too long for the short animation so I cut it form the complete copy.

Since I completed my animation I have shown it to various people of different ages look over my animation and I received good positive feedback as well as some ways I could've improved it.

My aim was to produce a short stop motion animation for an audience of people around my age. I wanted to create a short filler which I visioned would be before a show on channels such as Comedy Central or MTV. It was suggested that I upload it to YouTube since I saw last I have had over 50 views on YouTube. 

In the screening/focus group the audience all knew the target audience I had in mind and where it would fit on TV. 

I was told by my audience that the choice of "eye of the tiger" as my backing track suited the storyline as its a classic tune that usually occurs in a boxing parody, they felt that it was a good use of sound effects the slap sounded as if the snowman a twigs broke a little proving that he is the weaker of the two, the crowd in the background which included boos and cheers, I wanted to use a good range of sound as I feel with sound we can hear what's going on without looking at the visuals. Well that's the positives! 

Now for the negatives I was told there was too much camera movement and not enough character movement, I was told that a way to of prevented this would've been to use fewer over the shoulder shots and more wide shots, but I had to film it this way as my characters had a tendency of falling over and I also felt by using more camera movement I could show the chaos of the fight scene.

Another thing I found was most of my audience wanted the snowman to win instead of the sun, but I knew from the start I wanted the sun to win as in "real life" the sun melts snow inspiration came from the wizard of Oz "I'm melting" as you can see on my blog.