26/05/2011

Morning

I have continued with my project storyboard. I have also watched some of my fellow classmates’ proposal presentations.

Evening

I did some more rotoscoping of a different image in Photoshop.

25/05/2011

Morning

I have continued with my project proposal.

Evening


I have presented my project proposal to the entire class, except some of my classmates are absent. The resulting conclusion 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.


Then, I decided to draw a storyboard.

19/05/2011

Morning

I carried on with my Photoshop drawing skills, made some amends to my current proposal and research, and then focused on my ideas, so that I will make the project piece into a storyboard.

Evening


I continued with my Photoshop drawing skills.

Adobe Flash music videos research

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OzapkiiKJko (Date accessed - 18/05/2011)

The colours used in this Flash music video are different greens and browns for the forest, and pink for the woman’s dress, and these colours suit the story.

The story is about a young woman who is singing whilst in the forest.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMaWz0M5uk4 (Date accessed - 18/05/2011)

The colours used in this Flash music video are different colours that relate to the ocean and the fish. The colours of the fish are accurate.

The reason I like this is because at the end of the music video, it shows more sympathy for one of the two fish.

The story is about two fish who have a relationship with each other.

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvMugqLyeSE (Date accessed - 18/05/2011)

 The colours used in this Flash music video are red and yellow for the two birds, blue sky, green grass and brown poles. These colours fit the story.

The reason I like this is because it has speech bubbles to show the two birds talking.

The story is about two birds who have a conversation.

               

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUSQx3TkLow (Date accessed - 18/05/2011)

The colours used in this music video are plain white, as well as other colours later in the video.

The reason I like this is because it has text in different frames.

The story is about modern life in the present.

These videos were all found on the YouTube channel when I was trying to look for music videos designed in Adobe Flash.

18/05/2011

Morning

I have researched what a Manifesto is about, written what I would do in my project proposal and researched four music videos designed in Flash as well as my Photoshop drawing skills.

Evening

I have started my project proposal.

12/05/2011

Morning

I have watched a presentation of what makes a good questionnaire and a bad questionnaire. Bad questionnaires occur when an introduction or some questions or both do not make sense, or the layouts of the answers are wrong i.e. no tick boxes.

  

Here is one example of a bad questionnaire. The layouts to all answers are wrong e.g. no tick boxes, and some questions i.e. Questions 2, 4, 6 and 8 do not make sense.

This is a good example of a questionnaire. It has a proper introduction, the layouts of the answers are more appropriate and the questions make sense and relate to its theme.

Evening

I have added some colour to last week’s Photoshop rotoscope.

11/05/2011 Research day

I have started to do some research for my final major project.











This was done by David Firth. I like the way he designed his work because it shakes on different frames, and this makes it eerie. I could create some work similar to this by rotoscoping the characters I am going to draw in Flash.

This was done by Quentin Blake for a Roald Dahl book. I like the way it was drawn because it is commonly used in stop frames. I could create some work similar to this by posing the characters on different frames in Flash.

This was done by Walt Disney. I like the way Walt Disney designed this because it is a very old cartoon in black and white, before colour came of age. Sometimes, it is jolty and not very smooth. I could create some work similar to this by rotoscoping the characters and adding proper colour to them.

This was done by Nizlopi. I like the way it was designed because it looks like the characters were moving on lined paper. I could create some similar work to this by using lined paper as a background to the project I am going to do.

05/05/2011

Morning

I have watched a PowerPoint presentation about what makes a positive project brief and what makes a negative project brief, and why it would be the case for the client and practitioner.

I also had to make some useful notes, as doing so could definitely help me keep track of the good and bad points during the presentation.

Evening

I have practiced some rotoscoping of different images in Photoshop.

04/05/2011

Morning

I have researched different projects and clients for my final major project in a group. I then discussed what project I would be doing.

Evening

Research in Media Industries – Types of Research

Secondary research is things that already exist. Examples of these are books, magazines, journals and of course, the Internet.

Primary research is first hand research. Examples of this are questionnaires, tests, interviews, experiments and so on.

Quantitative research is asking specific questions to a group of people. Examples of these are YES/NO, multiple choices and a scale of 1–5.

Qualitative research is where there are no restrictions to the answers you have been looking for. Examples of these are getting people to write down their thoughts rather than asking specific questions as well as making notes while a group of people is discussing your idea.

You must research a media product because it will generate your ideas for the final product you are going to design, so that it will fit the target audience’s purpose.

If you do not research the specific media product, your target audience will not know what you have done to the media product.

I have also designed a questionnaire to reveal what the most popular type of media was in history.

11/05/2011

Morning

I have started a blog for my Final Major Project. I then decided to research different artists and animated music videos.


Evening


I have taken count of the answers in the completed questionnaires, which I had designed as a group. I then presented the results in a pie chart and a bar chart, and concluded which multimedia device is owned by a majority of people.