More Diagrams

Klaus told me that the diagrams I was trying to do earlier, like the one below, were too confusing in terms of getting across information.

So I tried a diagram like the one below, where I put the fruit illustrations around the diagram instead of making it the diagram itself.

Ultimately, though, I decided it would be easier for everyone to understand if I just did a straight up pie chart for getting across information.

Final Animation

Here is the final, rendered animation.

Sound sources

I recorded the voice over myself with one of the Massey microphones.

For the sound effects, I found a bunch of free to use effects from SoundBible.

The background music is "My Neighbourhood" from the Warner/Chappell Production music catalog. This music is not free to use, so I can only use it for university purposes. I won't be sharing this video online otherwise.

Updated storyboards/script

In the time between the storyboards and animatic, we decided to alter the script a bit. We changed the wording of the statistics section from just listing numbers to making a more visible statement. The new script states:

"All around the world, people are throwing away over 4 billion kilograms of good fruit a year, often all because they look a little funny. With that much food, we could feed the entirety of New Zealand for 2 years straight."

These were the original storyboards I used to make the animatic:

But this was a little bit rushed and lazy, keeping that old graphic in there. I re-did it a second time, replacing the image with an apple that slowly gets eaten, which better ties in with the voice over and is more interesting to watch.

The thrown away apple core also provides a nice transition to the next panel.

Bulletpoint Illustrations

We have a fact section on our website, so to differentiate it from the blocks of text in the other sections I decided to use bulletpoints (as well as increasing text size). These are some of the things I tried...

I thought it would be make the website more coherent if they related back to the illustrations somehow, so I tried the sparkles/stars used in the animation and the beauty standards illustration. The first one I thought looked too much like a cross on a church or something, but I liked the second one...

Then I tried a using a leaf from one of the fruit characters- the top one is too big, but I kind of liked the second one.

Ignoring the diagram- I compared what one I liked best and decided the green leaf didn't really fit with the colours of the fact pages- so I used the second one.

Diagram Experiments

These are some of the diagram experiments I've done for the website. I decided to only make a diagram for one of the three facts on the page because it would probably look too cluttered having one for each.

The first two I was having trouble fitting them next the text, while still having it large enough to be legible. So I decided to simplify it further, and use just one fruit for each of the diagrams. This has the added benefit of being easier to understand (for kids / everyone). I'll probably have to add text in some way to make it clearer still though, or to link it to the fact it references. The way I'm going to do that is the next thing to figure out...

Icons (for navigation)

This is the icon exploration I've done for the website navigation. We decided that since it's mostly for kids the website should include lots of images- and we figured the navigation bar would be a lot more interesting if it was pictures.

In the two above I was trying to see what looked more appealing- coloured circles containing images, or the characters themselves.

Also, I shortened the fourth title because it just looks nicer overall having everything on the same line.