Tuesday

Today we started learning about evaluation for assignment three task two. We had to find a definition about evaluation. After that Adam explained what we needed  to do for task two and he gave us some help on the board that I wrote down. I found it quite helpful as it explains what we need to do.

After that I started to work on task two. My plan is to write a little evaluation for each part of the day over the three days. I decided to add in some titles for the parts of the table so it is easier to understand. I had three different titles that were the targets, the review and the evaluation. In the end I managed to write most of the evaluation for three days.

I also worked on my design log. I did not do too much for it however I did sort out all of my pictures so I can write about them tomorrow. I did write a little bit today but my main focus was to work on my evaluation as it is fresh in my mind. I will also create a questionnaire for people to answer and I will send it off tomorrow.

Monday - Finished banner!

We started off today with a crossword about unit 39. This was quite a fun warm up to do as it helps to warm up the brain and it refreshes what we have been learning. My aim for today was to finish off my animation and to start organizing my design log that I managed to do.

I started off editing my jungle music. It is a 20 second animation so I had to cut it down to 20 seconds for it to work. I added it into my animation however it did not sound good when it starts again so I added a fade in and a fade out to make it sound better. I added it back into the animation and it worked better. The coin collection sounds can be heard over the soundtrack so I am happy with that.

The rest of the day I worked on my design log and some little fixes to my animation. One of these fixes was to add in the Facebook and Twitter logos and enlarge when you roll over them. I still have quite a bit to do on my design log so I will work on that a bit at home. I have organsied all of the pictures so I know which order they go in.

More banner design!

All of today we were working on our banners. My main aim for today is to get the coins disappearing when they are collected. I also wanted to find some music for the background. I first off looked at what I needed to do today. I started looking for some jungle themed royalty music that took some time. In the end I managed to find some music and downloaded it. I need to edit it down some more so it works well with my animation. I also got a coin collection noise so when the coin is collected it makes a noise. 

After that I moved onto  working out how I can make the coins disappear. This did take a little time to work out but in the end I managed to work it out. This took quite a long time to make all of the coins but in the end I finished it. I decided to add some spikes in for the character to jump over as well. 

Then I moved onto creating text. I did not have a lot of time to create text so I only managed to create the name and animate it. I will be having all of the text animating in different ways so it is interesting. I also designed some more text for my animation so I am all ready for finishing my animation. 

Thursday - Quiz and animation design!

We started off today with a an odd one out quiz. As the person who was meant to create the quiz last week was ill, Adam had made the quiz. You would get one point for the correct odd one out and another point for the reason why it was the odd one out and there was a total of 11 marks. I got a grand total of two out of 11 and luckily someone got one out of 11 so I did not have to make the quiz! This was an interesting quiz and it was fun to do.

After that we moved onto designing our animations. I opened up my plan on what I was going to do today so I could set some goals. My aim for today was to create all of the text and organize the files. In the end I managed to get all of this done and to start designing my animation. Whenever I had finished one of my goals, I would highlight it. At the end of each lesson, we had to reflect on what we had achieved.

I started off designing my text for the end of the animation. There was three different texts I needed to create. The first one was "Jungle Escape", the second one was "Play today!" and the third one was "Collect items". The collect items took the longest as I had to save each letter one at a time. I am happy with my progress made  today and I will hopefully make a lot of progress tomorrow