Critique form for Project 6

Ideas incorporated.
I recently heard in the news (or the time the project was given) about Scotland trying to gain independence from the UK and thought it was an interesting issue to bring up. Although it failed, apparently the Scottish are trying for independence again sometime in the future. I wanted to show what would happen if they did gain independence. Originally I was going to do it with stuffed animals, but being as the due date moved, and I was going to a conference over the weekend; I thought the project would be better using a crowd.

Do you think it was successful.
No not really. The concept was there. To me the project makes sense, but looking at it from an outside perspective,  it doesn't tell a story or have a clear narrative of what's going on. It kind of just looks like a bunch of things that aren't coherent.  Specially cause I have unsteady hands and I couldn't get the exact same angle pr shot. I underestimated the unknown variables such as the area where the conference would be being so dark.

What skills did I learn:
I need to be more conscious of taking pictures. Totally underestimated this project and thought that the hardest part and the part that needed the most attention would be putting them  into animation. I now know that the pictures are an integral part, and one that I shouldn't have rushed. It would probably have been better to use a tripod or something of the sort.

Challenges I faced
As I said I should have planned better. I wasn't expecting it to be so dark everywhere I took pictures, so it's hard to see what's going on, and that's probably why the narrative is so hard to understand. I did the one thing we weren't suppose to do, and boy do I feel crummy. I didn't even realize till i was actually putting it on the timeline that I was the dreaded black borders on the side. Force of habit, it was just so much easier to take pictures like that.

Suitable resolutions
I was able to kinda fix the darkness issue by playing around with the brightness. I, however can't do anything about the vertical pictures. Next project, I'll have to make a conscious effort not to shoot vertically

Revisions
1) Take the storyboarding seriously, it would have been easier if I knew EXACTLY what I wanted and how I wanted it to happen.
2) Remember to shoot horizontally.
3) Use a more stable medium of taking pictures (not my smartphone, or unless it was on a stand)
4) Account for unknown variables, and prepare a plan B, because things will always go wrong.