Emotional impact of the story feedback

Based on user feedback, the character seems to now be able to grab the viewer's sympathy over the course of the animation. The audience have given positive feedback on the emotional impact of the story.

I sent this question to ten students based on the week ten animation. They are registered on a variety of courses

"How do the story and character's actions affect your feelings towards the character?"

Here are the responses

1. I find the story to be a very sad one and I feel that the animation makes you feel sorry for the character.

2.  The story is sad and the character looks like he is struggling to cope.

3. The character has some very nice movements and as the ice chases him, I felt myself wanting to know about the character more and eager to know his safety

4. I thought that the character worked well as it enhanced my interest of the cartoon.

5. The snowfall added to the danger set up in the animation led me to feel bad about the guy.

6. I worried that the character would fall through the ice but i felt like the character needed more jerky head movements.

7. The movements are good and so I felt the realism of the character. This made me think about his actions more deeply and I could tell what was going on in his mind.

8. The bit where he sits down and covers his head really affected me and made me sad. The opening though was a bit confusing emotionally.

9. The end of the animation has a huge shock factor that builds on the already dramatic animation where you want the character to survive.

10. The story works as a piece. The character moves in a very anxious way and so as a viewer, I feel that he is unsettled and that makes me want to see him feel better about himself.     


Based on this feedback, the very important aspect of engaging an audience seems to have worked in this animation. The characters' actions and neurotic nature have had an affect on the emotions of the viewers. From this feedback, I also had some issues that I think would be best to fix in order to produce better work. These issues were also mentioned in earlier feedback and by my supervisor. The first of these is this, "The opening though was a bit confusing emotionally." This works on the basis that the opening is confusing, maybe even too fast or daunting in it's camera movements. Based on this, something that my supervisor also said, I plan to slow the opening movement and fit it better to the drama of the music. Secondly is the feedback, "I felt like the character needed more jerky head movements." This relates to the anxious nature of the character. From this, It is clear that the character does not yet move and convey anxiety as well as I had hoped. I will focus on this too in the week eleven process.