Live@5

On monday we spent the day collaborating with the broadcasting students on Live at 5. It was our job as animators to produce the graphics for the show. I say produce the graphics, it was more a case of editing pre-produced graphics to suit the topics of this weeks show. Since my specific job was to edit the names on the aston straps, it was, suffice to say, dull. It was a simple task that, I feel was a little pointless for an animation student to be doing, it could have been done by anyone who had used after effects a little bit before. I think that the broadcasters didn't really appreciate that they could have had more than what they were asking of us. Also, whilst Orla did a good job of organising us as producer and communicated well with their team, they still kept coming back to us with mistakes that had been made, mostly by them. The day was good as an experience, as an example of working in a group and in conjunction with another team of people, I just feel as though the potential was wasted, they were specific about what they wanted and we adhered to that and left no room for any creativity or display of talent. I would say that I was pleased with what I had produced but, what is there to be pleased with? I typed in some names into a pre-designed After Effects project, and exported it so it was ready for them to use, not exactly an achievement. They could have done that, it didn't really require animation students to produce what we did for Live@5. As I said before, I can appreciate the day as an experience of working with other people, I'm just not sure it was necessary for us to be involved.