Evaluation - Improvements and Developments

After creating my final piece, I am quite happy with the results considering the limited amount of time I had to create it. Looking at improvements and developments, I think it would have been a nice idea to have the image for each tarot card faded behind the QR code. Often what's so interesting about tarot cards is the beautiful and unique picture for each card and through my modernization of the cards, I've lost that quality and so by still keeping it in but making the focus the QR code I think it would have helped to improve my version of tarot cards. 

I also would have liked to have made the videos more professional with actual actors and better locations, due to only having 4 days to complete the new idea I did not have the time to cast actors or recce locations which is a shame because it could have really improved the quality of my videos. It would have also made filming easier as it was rather difficult trying to both film and star in my videos. 
I like the way my cards look, I tried to keep with an antique style whilst still making them my own and I like what I created, though I could have came up with a better name than 'Gemma's Tarot Cards'.
As for my videos, overall I think they look good, I could have done with better lighting but It was difficult trying to light a scene I was meant to star in and get the light on my face right. I think the video for Justice could have been better, my friends from class didn't have much time and so it was quite rushed and filmed in one take. I would have liked to have filmed from different shots/angles and maybe had more action going on. But other than this I am pleased with my films, especially The Empress, I like the look and feel of that film.
As for The Lovers, I don't particularly like that moving piece, I created it quickly to show what else could be done with QR codes but I didn't have my own image to use and i'm not very confident with After Effects and so I don't think that video came across professional at all. This is similar to The Fool, I used this card as a still image to show another QR style and as The Fool is all about Folly I tried to take a daft picture, which I don't like. I think a more professional picture would have worked much better
The Star is an idea that I really like, it again didn't come across that well due to my lack of time, basic knowledge of After Effects but I like what I was going for and as a prototype of what could be created I think it shows that well.

As for developments there are a lot of different ways this could go, the obvious development is to create a QR Code video for all 22 major arcana cards, but there is also the opportunity to have each video show a short symbolic video for each of the four representations a tarot card has, or even the option of a card displaying four different QR codes, and each code representing one of the actions. I quite like that idea for the fact that tarot cards are often used in readings which are all about your choice and how what you choose is representative of an aspect of your life, and therefore whatever action to chose to look at first could be seen as 'fate'. 

Whilst researching, I discovered different cards reinforce and oppose each other, it would be interesting to find a way to convey this with the QR codes, to see whether cards to pick in a reading link together or not.

As well as this there is the possibility for the cards to become part of an interactive tarot card reading website, in which you can click on a card on the screen and scan it to reveal which card you have chosen and what it means, this would take the interactive aspect of my project to the next step, cutting out the need for a 'middle man' in terms of a person laying out the cards for you and explaining them at a reading.

While there are improvements and developments I could look at, just like any project, overall I am happy with what I have created. I have taken an old fashioned concept and brought it into the modern technological era.