On Monday the 15th of February I had a PAL session in which me and my group were shown some animation work that our PAL leaders had created in the previous year. It was good to see some existing work and gave me a greater insight into what I would need to produce in this project. We were also able to find out more about what we would need to include in our work in order for it to be most successful.

After focussing on the statistics project we then began going over work placements, talking about what componies we were interested in and what we had been doing so far in order to gain a work placement. This part of the sessions was very helpful as we were able to ask the second years how they had got on with placements and what we would need to do to have the best possible chance of obtaining a placement.

On Tuesday the 16th of February our group had self directed study while tutors were at hand in order to give tutorials and help. I was able to use the study time to enhance my animation and begin building on what I had already created. I began improving some of the motion tweens that I had used, making them run smoother.

Today I had self directed study with flash in the morning, allowing me to work further with my animation before the Interim Critique which would be taking place in the afternoon for my group. I began working on the next section of my animation which was the "Population" text flying in from outside the stage. I used text that I had imported in from Illustrator and began setting up each piece of text with the required motion tween.

After the self directed study I had my Interim Crit which I felt went very well. I was able to see what everyone else had created and gain some effective feedback on my own work as well. The feedback received was to keep working with the same style and to avoid over complicating it. I was also given advice on possibly making the icons at the start of the animation rise up from the land in order to portray the people growing from earth, however I felt this would be a contridiction as there are people dying on earth which would effect the population scale and therefore represent icons lowering down, which I felt would be effective. The use of icons flying in helped to bring a dynamic effect to the animation which I felt helped to show a metaphorical image of an existing population figure.

We were also going to recieve feedback for visual thinking but there wasn't enough time so we will be receiving it next week.