Collaborative brief evaluation

Well, despite the warnings and horror stories about collaborative briefs we were being warned about, this collaboration with Ollie was definately a flying success. We got the work done to a high standard and vibed off eachothers ideas the whole way.

The collaboration was laid back but hard working with us both having a clear idea of what we were trying to achieve together. As Ollie said in his evaluation, we had set roles, but often these just meshed together because we did actually do most of this project together, with me occasionally giving Ollie hand drawn imagery to put into the software. I took a larger part of the illustration on and storyboarding in the early stages, but hopefully Ollie benefitted from that because I do feel like I can use the digicad software better than I could before, for example After effects - I feel alot more confident in using this, expecially for image sequencing (this is down to Ollie producing the main part of our project digitally, which was extremely helpful for me).

Ollie was very on top of the schedule sheets which was great because im going to be honest, its not a strong point of mine - but really should be! Me and Ollie avoided almost any stress by knowing exaclty what we should be doing, when and then putting the graft in! Im really happy with what we produced and I know Ollie is as well, and we were confident about the project. Me and Ollie also decided that we wanted to hit the brief from a fun angle because of the target audience being kids and if we werent having fun it would show and be reflected in the work.

Ollie has mentioned this but I want to have a word about it, the only negative thing about the project was that we could have done with more time - a week or so just to really make that project into something special. Overall I am really proud of the end result though. It was a total collaborative success.