Tuesday - Finishing up assignment two!

We started off today with a drawing game. This one was to draw the first part of our banner and then pass it onto the next person. When we get the next bit of paper we drew the next part of the banner. We did this till the sheets were full up and then we could look at the ideas that we made. The paper had four different ideas on how to create a web banner. I enjoyed this because it allowed me to see different ways that people will be designing their banner.

After that we carried on with our work. I had a little bit of the mood board, the sketches and the storyboard left to create. As this is in today I was aiming to finish off the story board ready to be scanned in when I get home. I started off finishing my mood board as I still had some images to add. Then I moved onto my sketches and this took quite a while to design. I enjoyed creating the sketches as it was quite interesting drawing out my character and enemies. I also designed the font in my sketches and I tried doing 3D however that did not work too well.

Finally I worked on my storyboards. I had to design three different ideas so I used my mind map I designed yesterday to help me. These took quite a bit to design as well because I had to write about what is happening and think about how I can design it in the storyboard.

Monday - back from a break!

We started off today off today with a little drawing game. We have done this before and I found this quite fun to warm up our brains. The aim of the game is to create a drawing from the word Adam tells us. For example, one of the words today was "yellow". The first thing that came into my head was the sun so I drew that.

After the game we moved onto assignment two. I was aiming to get at least up to my moodboard what I did and I have nearly finished it. I started off working on the mind map because I wanted to get my ideas down. I came up with three ideas but I do prefer the first one I did. After that I worked on a brainstorm. I was meant to do this first however I felt more comfortable working on my mind map first.

We also worked on Flash tutorials. I had a look at the Adobe tv site and it was quite interesting. I found it quite helpful learning about the different features of Flash such as deco tool. This tool allows you to create different drawing effects.

Overall I have enjoyed this day. My favorite part of today was the drawing starter as it helps with improving my creative skills. The deadline for assignment two is in for tomorrow and I have one re submission to do that I will do on Wednesday.

Friday - The day before half term!

We started off today with a game to help us wake up our brains. Adam had animation on the board and there was three words under it. The aim of this game was to first start off with the last letter of animation and think of a word that begins with n and is also to do with animation. Then you would have to make a word from the last letter of that word about animation. It was pretty confusing at the start but in the end we managed to work it out and it was fun to do.

After that we moved on to learning about the development process. There is four stages to the development. These four stages are brainstorm, spider diagram, mind map and a mood board. Each part you go into more detail so you know how to design it better. This was quite interesting learning how designing works.

Then we moved back onto Flash tutorials. I carried on with my train as I wanted to try to finish it however I did not. I managed to finish some of the animation part and I found that quite fun. It was quite easy as I have used Flash for animation before.

Quiz Thursday!

We started off today with a yes / no game. We all had a key term stuck onto our heads and we had to go around asking yes / no questions to work out who we were. I was Pierre Hubert Desvignes who I had never heard of. In the end I found out he was a French person who is dead and he created flip books.

After this we moved onto learning about assignment two. For assignment two we need to write about a brief. There is some parts we have to write about. These are client needs, target audience, content, format and aesthetic. So far this seems like an easy task and I do not think it should take long to finish.

We also did a Flash tutorial. This was to help improve our Flash skills when we move onto design our banner. I have used Flash at high school before so I did know a bit about it. I found this tutorial quite good to recap on and it has helped me remember. We had to make a train move along so we had to use motion tweens.