Evaluation

Part One –

I felt like my overall result of my e-pub book was satisfying and good. I am satisfied with my ending result and I think in the end it all looked good. My e-pub I think would have turned out better if I had more time that what we were given. I know that was my fault about the time because I could have prepared more and planned more so I knew exactly what I was doing and so it wouldn’t have been or felt so rushed. If I could change any aspects of my final project I think I would of added hyperlinks. I saw Christie’s e-pub and she showed me her hyperlinks that link her to her blog. I wish I had the time and planning to do that to my book because I believe it would have looked good and smart to do. I would have also liked to put photos in the scenes but didn’t have the time to. If I could start the project again I would defiantly plan more and use my time sufficiently and sensibly to my advantage to get on top and get most of it done in class instead of doing it at home.

Part Two –

I think that both my e-pub and poster have turned out relatively close to what I pictured them to look like. I think that my poster even turned out better than what I pictured. I really liked what my poster turned out to look like; I pictured it to have my character, Noah standing on top of the world and then have “Our World” in a cool title. This is obviously much different to what it turned out to look like. I really like what it ended up looking like.  My e-pub, I really didn’t know what to expect what it would end up looking like but I am happy with the ending result. My poster does clearly depict the style of animation I was going for and shows a bit of the film in it because there are different landmarks in the poster where Noah ends up visiting. There were a few technical difficulties I encountered throughout the making of my e-pub. One was that my scenes of my film wouldn’t export and wouldn’t move into my e-pub. This made me a little freaked out of course but I got Mr Andrews to help me out and all was sorted in the end J other than that little difficulty and me taking my USB out and causing rainbow wheel to appear, there wasn’t any more massive technical difficulties. For starts, I didn’t have the proper film on my USB, only my partner Grace did but I got that off the class desktop, and next I found out I didn’t have Graces scenes either on my USB to record myself talking over but I solved that problem by putting the whole film into imovie and just cutting Graces scenes out and recording myself over them.  I didn’t use anything like content-lists or flowcharts, my planning consisted of writing down what I hoped to do, typing up my scenes and then having them recorded by me and putting that onto my e-pub. I haven’t put much of my planning onto my blog which I should have done just incase it got deleted, Mr Andrews could have seen if I have actually done something. This I have to get better at doing for most of my subjects also.

Reflection 31/10/12

In today's lesson we went over all the things in photoshop again so we could all remember how to use it. I am starting to work on my poster in photo shop for my film :)

Poster

This was an activity that we did last week, we had to make a poster :)
We got given a website onto wikipedia that gave off random articles which we had to choose one that sounded intriguing. I chose the article called 'Boy From School', once this was chosen we had to go to the website where there were alot of quotes throughout the page. We had to choose the last 4 or 5 words from the end of the quote, my quote said 'Don't screw around and don't smoke'. When i had both of these things, i went onto google to find pictures that would relate to my title and quote so i got a picture of a school, and emblem of a random school and a picture of boys. i took all of these photos and my title + my quote and edited them on Photoshop to make them blend together.

Essay

Factory 

The film, 'Factory' was created by an animation artist called Miwa Matreyek in 2004. This film deals with a lot of different textures and lines to draw attention to various objects. The meaning behind this film is still indescribable, but stills draw a lot of the attention from the viewer.

This film, Factory, is a very dull film. Throughout the whole animation, there the only colours that were used were black and white. There was little emotion in this film but was still very intriguing and interesting. The animation started off with a lot of men piling into the factory in the morning to start work, this then led onto the showing of the outside and eventually the inside of the factory. What was so different and intriguing about the factory was that instead of big machines moving things around, they were abnormally large hands that would do the job of what a normal machine would usually do.  I realized that it was daytime in the film because of all the men walking into the factory, meaning they were just starting their days work. There are some objects that do stand out in the animation and draw my attention straight away. Some objects were the big factory pipes blowing smoke out, blimps flying in the sky, the massive hand being used instead of a person, machines and of course, the factory itself. The massive hand confused me a lot at the start and I didn’t know what to think or feel.

The animation shows a lot of different texture, shapes and lines. In one part of the film inside the factory, it has lines on the roof which are concaved downwards. Those lines being concaved downwards draws the attention downwards to what is happening on the floor, which shows all the machines and what they are all doing. There is a lot of different texture throughout this film also, showing lots of shades of darkness or lightness in the parts where it is necessary. I found that it showed more shades of darkness throughout the animation meaning that the creator of the film is trying to give off a dull and weary vibe. I thought that the animation throughout the film was very well done and did draw my attention to the screen with the use of the factory in its creativeness.

This film really confused me at the start and I didn’t get any of it, but after a while I realized the bigger picture to it. The film is saying that technology is taking over our world we live in today, its replacing lots of things we had in our lives. It’s also showing that people are forced to do work they don’t want to do or are not comfortable in doing and are bored but have no other choice. This is a world we live in today, Miwa Matreyek has shown that very well through creative animation.

Creative Media Evaluation

Montana Leskiw

Creative Media Evaluation

1.    I am quite satisfied with the end result. I think the animation turned out really well in the end after we put all the parts of grace and mine together.

2.    My project took up more time than I intended on having. This was because I had a few technically difficulties with some of the laptops I had and also with saving my animations.

3.    If I could change any aspects of my animation I would put a more appropriate song along the lines of the animation. We didn't have enough time so we just put a song in there, but if we did have enough time we would of made sounds to go with the animation and different things not just one huge song.

4.    If I could start the project again I would defiantly not put that much time into the opening of the book. The opening of the book took me so much time that I didn't have and took up so much more time than I would of liked. I would spread out my time spam evenly so I know how much time I have to put into each scene.

I imagined the final animation much differently to what it came out as. I pictured it to be much different on the lines of the actual animation and all of it put together. I’m happy with our final animation but I did picture it a lot differently.

We had to change a lot of things with our original plan because it was going to take up to much time or was going to be to difficult to do in the time frame that we had. I had to make a bit of a scene different to what we first imagined because it was going to be to difficult and the scene itself already took up a lot of time.

I think during my project that my animation skills did improve. I think the start and the finish of my animation are different in their way that they improved more on the technique and the structure of how I did the animation and what I chose to do about things.

I had a few technical difficulties along the way of my project, which didn't help speed up things but slow me down a lot. I made one of my scenes at least three times before it actually saved onto a USB. This took up so much time that could have gone into other animations and scenes for my project instead of redoing a scene over and over again. I didn't really have many difficulties with the actual animation part but mostly the saving part.

I think the storyboards could have been used more regularly to see if we were on the right track. I did check in every once in a while to see if I was doing the same thing the storyboard said to do but not as much as I would of liked to do.

I think the planning ahead really did help speed things along in the animation project. F I didn't plan ahead I think I would have been lost at some parts of the project and not knowing what to do with myself. The planning was good because I always knew what to do and if I forgot my USB one day or my scene deleted on me, then I knew other scenes because I planned so I just did them instead of just sitting there doing nothing.

I do think our project was a little rushed near the end of it. I think it was difficult for Grace and I because we were in different classes and it was hard for us to see each other’s work and to discuss what we did in class that day. I think near the end of the project we were stressing over putting it all together into one whole movie and then we stressing over a song hen it was nearly due so we just put a random song in there. I think if we had more time it would have been cleaner and smoother.

I think I am very lazy when it comes to blogs and I need to put more reflections up and the parts of my scenes up that I get done in class. I did do some along the way of this animation project but not enough to fully show what I’ve been doing. I need to use my blog more and should be putting up reflections and blog entries after every lesson.

I did learn a few new things along the way of my animation project. I never knew how to copy, paste and undo on the animation application so I was also using my mouse to go over it and do it, which took up an annoying amount of time. I soon figured out that you only had to click command + C, command + V and comma

Our Animation Movie

Grace and i finally finished our animation project!!!!!! :)

progress 4

This animation is of Australia. this doesn't have a lot in it at all because it deleted on the weekend but it will have the main character walk in and they guy at the BBQ will greet the boy and give him a sausage from his BBQ  after he does that the surfer due will pick up his surf board and run into the water and out past the waves, while the main character looks while he goes out in the water then walks away

progress 3

This is my animation of the book opening and the boy who was swimming in the pond floating down the stream and out of the book, this stream soon joins onto the ocean which soon comes up to Antarctica because of the icebergs which start to appear, they boy gets onto one of them and is going to float along on top of one until it starts to melt and he swims the rest of the way to Australia

reflection

Grace and i should very soon be able to put all our animation parts together to make the full movie. this will hopefully turn out the way we planned and look good all together in the end product. i need to do a little more with my animation seeing as though mine deleted over the weekend, and i know grace has to do a little more as well, but as soon as were both finished we'll be able to put all our parts together

progress 2

This is when i started my animation for my project near the start of term 3, it doesn't/isn't near finished. it is an atlas with someone opening it up to a page with a pond on it and in the pond is suppose to be a boy swimming around

Progress

This is an animation i did in class for my project which im doing with grace branch. This is the part in our animation where it zooms out to the world and draws a red dotted line from Antarctica to Australia because thats the route in which he travels on

Reflection 1

With my assignment for this term and next i have chosen to work with Grace with our animation. I know that we can work well together and add our ideas into one. So far, we have already planned out what we want to do for our animation and almost finished our dot point layout. We have started our storyboards and are well underway with still completing them. With what we've already planned, we could start filming :)

Character profile of our animation.

Character Profile Worksheet

Basic Information/Statistics

Name: Noah	Age: 14
Current Residence: the world atlas
Occupation: an illustration for a book	Talents/Skills: very good memory and knows everything about the world and countries

Physical Characteristics:

Height: 2.3cm	Weight: 1.7kg
Race: white	Skin Colour: olive skin
Eye Colour: blue	Glasses/Contact Lenses: neither
Hair Colour: light brown	Facial Shape: oval/ round
Style (Elegant, shabby etc): casual
Dress/Clothing: shorts and T-shirt
Mannerisms: Good posture, happy gestures and walking
Hobbies: traveling and reading
Favourite Sayings: “The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.”
Speech Patterns: good pronounciation of words and sounds like a 14 year old boy.

Emotional Characteristics

Strengths: good swimmer, meeting new people

Weaknesses: math

What motivates this character? His friend from page 22

What frightens this character? The thought of having the leave his book.

What makes this character happy? traveling are the places in his book

Introvert or Extrovert:introvert when studying and traveling but loves being with his friends as well

What is this Character’s Goal? To one day face his fears and leave the book he calls home and travel the real world.

Intellectual/Mental/Personality Attributes and Attitudes

Educational Background: only what he has learnt about from the book

Character's short-term goals in life: to finish the book

How does Character see himself/herself? He sees him self as the happy smart one of his friends.

How does Character believe he/she is perceived by others? The nerdy boy who is a great friend and they can trust with anything.

How self-confident is the character? He has great self-confidence and is not shy.

Does the character seem ruled by emotion or logic or some combination thereof? He is mainly ruled by logic however when it comes to travel he follows his heart.

What would most embarrass this character? Going somewhere and not being able to speak the other person’s language.

Best Characteristics: kind, confident, good listener and advise giver

Worst Characteristics: can get embarrassed

Does the character have any prejudices? He is prejudice against the people fighting in war on page 346

Dot point plan of Grace and my animation.

Grace Branch and Montana Leskiw’s Animation

1.    An atlas is sitting on a desk closed

2.    A hand comes into the camera and starts flipping the pages

3.    The book stops at a page

4.    That page has a river with a boy swimming in it

5.    The hand comes back into the camera and moves towards the picture on the page.

6.    The finger drags the river down to create a waterfall.

7.    As the waterfall flows the little boy falls with it.

8.    The waterfall creates the river.

Antarctica-

9.    The little boy is swimming along the river and icebergs star to appear.

10.                  He keeps swimming through them.

11.                  He comes to one and climbs on it and sits down.

12.                  It breaks of from the others and starts floating down the river.

13.                  The land starts and there is a polar bear on it.

14.                  The polar bear chases the iceberg.

15.                  A whale tail flicks out of the water next to the boy and he looks at it.

16.                  The iceberg it starting to melt.

17.                  The little boy starts swimming toward a boat

18.                  He gets on the boat and starts the engine.

19.                  The camera zooms out to show the globe and the boat moves from Antarctica to Australia being followed by a red line.

Australia-

20.                  The boat stops and the camera zoom in to Australia with a landscape medium shot.

21.                  The boat hits the shore and the boy goes flying out onto the ground.

22.                  He gets up and dusts him self off.

23.                  A man cooking prawns on the barbeque greets the boy. He says ‘g’day mate’.

24.                  The man hands the boy a prawn, grabs his surfboard and runs into the water.

25.                  The boy keeps walking along looking at the sights while eating his prawn

26.                  Kangaroos jumping past.

27.                  He continues walking while the Sydney harbour bridge and Oprah house come in view

28.                  He starts singing at the opera house and then he kept walking until he came to a Qantas plane.

29.                  He gets on the plane and the plane takes of.

30.                  The camera zooms out to a world-view and the plane moves from Australia to Hawaii with a red line following it, it then lands and the camera zooms back into Hawaii.

Hawaii-

31.                  He gets off the plane and is greeted by two Hawaii people that put a lay around his neck.

32.                  He thanks them and walks over to the beach where there are hula dances and a fat guy sun burnt on a sun bed.

33.                  He passes a bar where a guy gives him a coconut to drink.

34.                  As he is walking and he sees dolphins so he runs to the surfboards to for hire sign, picks up a surfboard and runs to the water.

35.                  He plays with the dolphins for a bit and then the surf goes flat until a HUGE wave comes along.

36.                  He catches the wave.

37.                  It zooms out to the worldview and the wave takes him to London.

London-

38.                  The camera zooms back in on London.

39.                  The wave dies down and the boy hops on to the London Bridge.

40.                  He walks along the bridge looking at sights.

41.                  He gets to the big ben. He walks up to one of the guards, which don’t move, and starts dancing and pulling faces in front of it.

42.                  When they don’t do anything he pokes his tongue out makes a noise and storms off.

43.                  He gets on a red double deck bus, he goes to the top and sits down

44.                  There is also 5 guys at the top of the bus looking around at all the sights.

45.                  When the bus passes the London eye the boy take a picture of it.

46.                  The 5 other guys get off the bus and girls with signs start screaming and chasing them.

47.                  The bus keeps going along down he streets of London.

48.                  The camera then zooms out to a worldview with the bus moving along towards Africa. A red line is still following it.

Africa-

49.                  When the bus gets closer to Africa it transforms in to a safari car.

50.                  When it is there the camera zooms back in and the boy is driving the car along African terrain.

51.                  He stops the car and a giraffe sticks its head in the window and licks him face.

52.                  He makes a disgusted face and gets out of the car.

53.                  He continues walking along when he spots a lion resting.

54.                  He keeps quiet to watch the lion when an elephant sprays him with his trunk and he screams and the lion runs away.

55.                  He shakes of and all the water comes off him.

Noah (the boy) goes to Tokyo after Africa however we haven't finished planning that country or how he gets back into the book for the finish   

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Bouncey Ball

This was the first animation we did for this term. It is a ball looking like it is bouncing along a road

Motion tween

Motion tweens can change the following properties of an instance of a symbol: position, scale, rotation, skew, brightness and tint.

Tween

Tween is the creation of successive frames of animation between key frames.

Key frame

A key frame in animation and film making is a drawing that defines the starting and ending points of any smooth transition.

Animation cycle

an animation cycle is where u have a rotation of images going in a cycle to make a smooth moving animation.

Avatar 2

Avatar 2 is Zathura in her bad mood. She changes her appearance to fit her mood, and this mood is angry and aggressive. She has a power, and hers is camouflage which she changes into a lot. With this skill, she can rearrange her facial features and change colour to things. Her eyes are fiery red here showing shes not in a good mood, rather being her natural bright blue. Her anger can also be spotted in her stance, she is standing very sharp and alert, compared to Avatar 1 where shes more lad back and chilled. If looks could kill, you'd be dead.

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