Results of Product Testing

This bar chart shows that all the people who watched my animated music video liked it. All eight people had said yes to these because they all liked my animated if there were any people who said no to the question that I asked them, the results would be completely poor and I would have to start the project all over again until I get more responses for the 'yes' bit of the questions.

This bar chart shows that there have been responses for the legibility and the layout than the colour scheme itself. Five responses were for the legibility, four were for how my animated music video was laid out, and finally there were only two responses for the colour scheme I have incorporated. As I have seen earlier, one person liked all three, but another person liked both the colour and the layout.

Next time I make another animated music video, I could try and cut down on the lyrics as they are far too unnecessary for some scenes, as well as improving the sound quality with music properly imported from the CD, and I could also consider mixing it with video footage and scenes at different angles, like the Video Installation work I have done in previous units.

More Art Techniques

Here is this car (SSC Ultimate Aero TT) I have rotoscoped in Photoshop. I used the brush tool to draw the outline of the car and the paint bucket to fill it with colour. Then I closed any gaps which have been left behind with the brush tool.

These are some of the stamps I have designed in another unit. I have used Photoshop and Illustrator to add filters to the images, include perforations as well as the queen's head.

This is one of my FMP's characters (the farmer) designed in Illustrator. Firstly, I drew the image on paper, and after I scanned it in, I traced it in Illustrator.

Flash Animation Techniques (Info from written sources)

This animation technique teaches you how to animate vector illustration in Flash. It is where you use the Pen tool to trace a hand drawn drawing which has been done on paper.

This was found at http://www.kirupa.com/developer/flashcs3/flash_vector_illustration.htm (Date accessed - 29/06/2011)

This animation technique teaches you how to add Tweens for when to move certain objects. Firstly, an image is added to the frame. Secondly, more frames were added, followed by the inclusion of the motion tween. Then the image is moved around at different frames.

This was found at http://www.entheosweb.com/Flash/motion_tween.asp (Date accessed - 29/06/2011)

This animation technique teaches you how to create a basic MX animation with some simple instructions. This began with a new Flash MX document. Firstly, the properties option was opened up. Secondly, the document had to be resized and the frame rate had to be increased. Then when the document was saved and played, the results showed that the Flash MX logo was moving 25 rates per second to the right.

This was found at http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx/basic_animation.htm (Date accessed - 29/06/2011)

These were all found on the WebsiteTips.com website (Date accessed - 29/06/2011)
when I tried Google' search engine in order to find animation techniques.

Music Video Lyrics Ideas

This is where I generated my ideas from the music video's lyrics as shown below.





























For the full lyrics, visit the Organised Babble website at http://www.sonicbids.com/epk/epk.aspx?epk_id=314123

Proposal

Here is the proposal I presented earlier during the project.

The resulting conclusion to the proposal turned out that I had good explanation of the information of what I am going to do and the overview of my story, equipment needed, time management and my target audience, as well as containing good research with references. But to improve this next time, I would speak more slowly and clearly, cut down on the writing, as well as trying to avoid reading from the screen.

28/06/2011

Evening

I continued adding what is needed in my blog.

Why a Design Brief is important

A design brief is very important to the practitioner and his/her client because if they both do not have a brief, the client will not know what the practitioner is doing in the relevant project. The three following reasons from a bad brief are:

1) The brief may be very tight.
2) The client will not give you the relevant information needed beyond the size of the appropriate document, and (s) he may not know what the practitioner will be up to at this moment.
3) Second hand brief.
4) High expectations, but poor budget/deadline.
5) The brief may change at different times.
6) The information may be too contradicting, making not one, but two project briefs at the same time.
7) Too many options to choose from.

The following requirements needed for a better brief are:

1) Information about the company. The more you have, the better your product will look when assembled.
2) Budget.
3) Project message/theme.
4) Who their competitors are.
5) Where the corporate guidelines have been included.
6) Target audience/Market.
7) Tech spec.
8) Needs to look and feel required.
9) Deadline.
10) Expectations.
11) Good examples of previous projects they have done before.