Liam Conor Stephen Thompson: 21/03/12

During the planning stages for our advert we had to draw up a production schedule. This would help us to break down each stage of the advert. We was then able to assign tasks to individuals within the group and give then a date of completion for those tasks. By doing this we was able to track when tasks were behind or ahead of schedule. During the script writing stage, we were able to come up with a script, even though it was only one page, it had everything in it that we needed. Throughout our research, we found out that this was possible as the Nytol advert produced by Aardman Studios is also done by using a one page script. Our production was done in a similar way, but on a smaller scale. Our set design was different compared to Nytol's, in the fact that it was smaller, but it was set in a box, like theirs.

21/03/12

During the planning stages for our advert we had to draw up a production schedule. This would help us to break down each stage of the advert. We was then able to assign tasks to individuals within the group and give then a date of completion for those tasks. By doing this we was able to track when tasks were behind or ahead of schedule. During the script writing stage, we were able to come up with a script, even though it was only one page, it had everything in it that we needed. Throughout our research, we found out that this was possible as Nytol is a one page script. Our production was done in a similar way, but on a smaller scale. Our set design was different compared to Nytol's, in the fact that it was smaller, but it was set in a box, like theirs.

19/03/12 - Complete of My Evaluation!!!

Today I've finished my Evaluation, talking about the feedback that I got back for the views of my advert. I thought i wouldn't have finished it today, but I got it done and handed it in. In my opinion its great to do an Evaluation because you can explain what you think of it and the good/ bad points you thought of it, also what can be improved when it comes around in doing it again.....

15/03/12 - Start of Evaluation

Today, I was preparing my evaluation to do with our audience feedback. I only was asked to do the first three paragraphs of our evaluation because I wasn't prepared to finish it because I hadn't finish my audience feedback questionnaires. In order to do that I had to complete them, by going around the college campus or outside of college for people to see our animation advert. This gives us a good chance to see the good and bad views on what people thought of our animation. We had to make it clear by going about our target audience because it was only fair on us, otherwise if we didn't go by this, we would have different comparisons on somebody that doesn't fit our target audience. This has been good because it goes to show that I can give my views about my project on what went bad, as well as my audience feedback, mainly I had to talk about what my audience thought of it as a piece of art.

14/03/12 Part 2

This afternoon my group and I was focusing on our focus group. We managed to get professionals e.g. teachers to watch our 2D animation to get feedback from that, in order for them to do this they filled out a questionnaire. This will help me with my evaluation, getting various feedbacks from various tutors from college. This afternoon I also managed to complete my three paragraphs of my evaluation, which still needs completing.

14/03/12 Part 1

This morning is a tutorial session whereby we either find jobs within the Media industry or we complete work that we haven't yet completed in other lessons. As for me, I am doing both trying to look or find jobs within the Media sector, which nothing catches my full attention. Also, I'm about to start my evaluation, trying to finish my three paragraphs off...

12/03/12

Today I have been very busy with completing my questionnaires towards my focus groups, part as my audience feedback for my evaluation. I have done both 3D & 2D questions. I mainly asked people what they thought about our animations and if they thought their could be some improvement for our animations. Also I have started my evaluation, I was told do start my three paragraphs, since my tutor gave us a handout in what needs to be in out evaluation. Our evaluation needs to cover, only our audience feedback. It has been a hard and stressful day as well as tiring, trying to get it done with getting my three paragraphs making sense.

Recording Sound Track...

For our sound track, we recorded our voiceovers opposite the studio. We as a team had to be particularly aware of noises around such as computers being on, therefore we had to make sure that the computer macs were off at all times and especially being aware of people walking past having footsteps in the background especially having the door wide open. Having recorded the sound track, we could have recorded in a better place, but we were lucky because it was very quiet and no one was around, which was a great time to do the sound. We done it this way to get great audio syncranisation.

Pre-Production - What documentation to support team

Pre-Production work which I was involved in  was writing the script for the team as well as catching up with sketching out the new 2D animation storyboard. Before coming up with ideas for the 2D animation, we as a team decided to change it around a bit because its more imaginative to promote it this way...

08/03/12

Today, we was preparing our for our focus group, in which we gather a target audience to do with our animation to get some feedback for our animation. This afternoon, I was typing up a bunch of question to ask my focus group about our animation. I have asked about 8 questions, but in total, we need to ask 10, but I have asked question to talk about in a group discussion, by watching the clip again to find out there own opinions on certain topics.

Complete set....

This is our final and complete set for our animation. Now it was ready to start filming....

Characters for 2D Animation!!!

These are images of my team, which one of the team Lauren, drew for our 2D animation. We had different range of ideas for our 2D animation, but we all thought in having us drawn in a cartoon way to produce our production team.

22/02/12 - 24/02/12

During the fist week back after half term was filming week. Between 22nd February and 24th February was my group's chance in filming. On the Wednesday we were preparing it because we didn't have time to film, so we had to start filming on the Thursday because we wasn't prepared or organised for filming our animation. In order to finish it off, we had to come in on our day off to complete it, which was okay with my group because we had to get it done and it was the best thing to do because we had finished our 3D and 2D animation in two days which was really eventful and we got a lot done in one day.

07/03/12

Well, its been awhile updating my blog, so lets get down to business with what I have been up to in the past few weeks...

Today in this lesson, I have been editing our animation avert getting it to look near professional. I recently came back from holiday, so its mainly catching up and I have to edit my own animation to show my tutor that I have actually done some editing to help my group. It had been the most stressful couple of days, trying to put the work together, its a bit like a puzzle because we didn't exactly go in order. Our animation was a little hard to complete, so us as a group did the scenes we thought would take longer and believe me it took hours to do the first 5 seconds of our animation. It has been interesting to get back to animation again because it goes to show my editing, filming and animating skills to my class mates who have never done animation before, even though they have used final cut pro previously in other projects e.g. Music Video and Social Action Media.