Vegetable chocolate machine

I printed my poster on A2 gloss paper. For next time I will make sure my text is much brighter as you could barely read it due to the fact that it was against a black background and there was so much glare from the lights. Apart from that the exhibition set up went very smoothly and it looked very good. My video was on the showreel so all I needed to set up was the poster.

I have created the poster for the exhibition and I kept the hand written elements that I put in the animation as I feel that it goes with the Little Inventors aesthetic. All that needs to be done now is to print it and set up for the exhibition.

I have now finished the animation. Overall I am quite content with the final outcome. It isn’t perfect and looks quite rough but as it was my first time animating I think the point of the video is conveyed clearly enough.

I have talked to the animation students to help me with what to do. They have said it would look good to rotoscope of the video I already have. I would do this by using the Wacom drawing tablet and photoshop. 
I already made a little storyboard of what it will look like, but that was based off of me thinking I was still doing the continuous shot. 
They also said to slow the frames down to 6fps instead of 24fps as it will give a more stop motion feel whilst giving me less to draw as it is my first time animating.

This is the rough video. I left it really simple to be able to add lots of animation over the top.

I made a short storyboard to show what I would be filming. It was going to be one continuous shot of the machine with me zooming in closer to each part of it and then panning across. This would then be animated on top of. When filming though I thought there would be too much going on, too much movement and will be off putting for the viewer. I left it as a one shot with the only movement being my hand coming into frame every so often.

Due to the fact that I am not an experienced product designer it took me some time to come up with a plan of how to create the prototype. 
I chose to use mostly cardboard as it was an easy to use material and didn’t matter too much if I kept making mistakes. It also wasn’t going to be functional therefore I didn’t need to use metal.
The biggest problem I did encounter was the toppings dispenser was much heavier than the rest of the machine and the wire wasn’t strong enough to hold it up. This meant that it had to be held up to look like the invention. To overcome this, when it came to filming I attached some clear tape to it and taped it to something off screen which meant that it looked like it was free standing.

When looking at Lydia's invention there were multiple aspects to the machine that needed to be thought about. I found that trying to insert the vegetables into the chocolate would be quite difficult therefore I came up with the idea of placing it into melted chocolate moulds meaning the vegetables would be evenly distributed throughout the chocolate. 

I have made a few drawings mapping out how the design might look as well as how the separate components would look on their own to get a better grasp on how they should all attach to each other. 
My next step is to create the prototype, I will initially use cardboard and wire to complete this however, this might transform into something else as I develop my experimentation. I am not too worked up about the prototype as I plan to use film and possibly graphics to aid in showing how the machine might work in real life.