Fighting a Losing Battle?

After spending a good 2 and a half hours catching up with everything lost on my camera before, I managed to get up to date and do a little bit more - but still in reality I've lost out on a full day of working on this for the mess that's happened today. Just losing confidence on everything about this now, still, I'm fighting on and seeing if I can manage to scrape something together.
I've been home for an hour now and trying out how things look so far with the photos I've got (now saved on my mac) and I'm not sure how it's all going to come together - I'm going to have to save some of the photos in sections as some parts I've captured need slowing down more than others, meaning I should be able to tweak it and hopefully get a good consistency throughout.
Here's a sample of how things are looking so far, this is just one photo after another played back with a time stretch on AfterEffects of 400%, a lot of it's still really fast, but you get the idea.

There's so many bits wrong with it - like where the camera jolts about when I tried to smoothly tilt it up, (around 9 seconds in), I think the text flows on too fast - but I can't do anything about that as I haven't taken enough photos on it.

I think I'm finding it most difficult because there's only me in the room running between the wall and tape and back around the lights to the camera to take the shot, and back to move the tape at the wall, and back to the camera (so far 200+ photos taken, so that gives an idea of time spent on this so far..) I enjoy it when it's looking promising and working, I love the whole process of this coming along and working out - but when you sit down at your laptop hours and hours later and play it all back and you feel like it looks like a pile of crap, it's a bit of a kick in the teeth.
I wish I had more support technically on how to go about doing all this - I can find tutorials on youtube for the software aspects, I can ask tutors and other students on the ideas or concepts behind everything - but I feel like I'm lacking support on how to actually animate in the first place. Like roughly how many shots should I do per second to make action flow nicely - especially when I want to introduce a change in zoom or camera angles to successfully show the movement of the camera?
It's little bits and pieces I come across when I'm working away on the animation, I feel like I'm just finding everything out the hard and really really long winded way, and not really doing myself any favours.

Well, now I've got that off my chest.. I'm emailing my CV over to NFTS asap to hopefully get to assist on some of their students' upcoming animation projects. This might help me actually seeing something happen on a first hand level - and seeing someone working on a live project who's on an actual animation course might help me out a lot more. I'm thinking of checking out other animation courses so that I can send my CV off to them too and get a wider experience of animation styles and techniques.