Using the bobsleigh animation for to test it out, I added the text onto the animation in multiple different ways, layering it over the top, underneath and side by side, but overall i don’t think any of them are effective enough, each of them have their downsides and i don’t like the way ay of them look.
My next idea was for each animation, to have 5 seconds of text and 5 seconds of animation for each. Each body of text would pop up on the screen to give the information and then the animation would transition in after the 5 seconds. This was more effective than the previous idea of having text and animations on the same screen, however the whole idea of my video is to have a series of animations to show what you can do in 10 seconds, so I think the animations themselves need to last 10 seconds each.
This led me to thinking about using a voiceover, which meant I wouldn’t have to add any text on the page, the viewer could just listen to the voiceover instead, this means nothing would be in the way of the animations and the video as a whole will look much cleaner.
I added a voiceover to each animation which lasted about 7/8 seconds each so it was a second or 2 inside the animation on either side. I mad sure the voiceover was upbeat and very over the top to fit in with the rest of the animation.
After doing the voiceover I watched the whole thing through and even with the voiceover it still sounded relatively dull and did not match the style of the animations, i think partly because the sound effects added to it make it seem too serious. Due to this I looked online for a soundtrack to add to the background instead of using sound effects, I looked for an up beat, happy song which I could add to the background behind the voiceover. I found a site called ‘bensound.com’ which is a site that you can download soundtracks from. I found one called ‘buddy’ which I think fits my animation perfectly.
Ben Jackson 