Week 5

Monday:
With the basics of Flash now learnt, we are now left to begin production on our project's. As always the first step is creating a production schedule. We have been left with more freedom with this this year and this was the first time I had made a schedule completely from scratch. Using the Task Sheets provided, I included all Pre-Production Tasks, leaving myself a generous amount of time to complete the large task of producing the Finished Product.

We were also given the opportunity to review our first task sheet, creating an Improvement Plan. While my work seemed to be good, I had issues with my summary and referencing. I have now learnt about In-Text Referencing, where you either directly quote or put the books content into your own words, and then directly site the source at that point. I will include this in my reworked example. Also my summary needed a greater amount of comparison between new and old, for instance drawing likeness between Flash and a Zoetrope, showing how Flash utilises tried and tested theories in Animation.

With the Production Schedule complete, I will be beginning new Research and Development tasks in our next lesson on Friday and reviewing my first task in the weeks to come.

Friday:This lesson has been spent begging the research section of my Pre-Production phase. Now I have learnt about my topic, I need to look at similar and existing products. Examples of Educational Animations aimed at teenagers have been hard to find. Most examples are aimed at children, only covering the brief facts and presenting the information in a more childish way.

I also encountered many Interactive animation Hybrids. Ofcourse these have intresting elements but aren't appropriate.  It takes some looking to find Animations that would appeal, through more mature content, less cartoon character based, more fact based elements of the target, teen market. I will be writing up my findings at home focusing on colour, soundtracks, characters, pacing, text etc.