Evaluation

1.  What skills have you developed through this module and
how effectively do you think you have applied them?


Before this module I had never used After Effects or any software like it,
 so this has been a whole new experience for me. At first I found it very
challenging I find digital software hard to get to grips with anyway and 
After Effects was a lot harder than any of the others I had learnt before.
At the start of the module I found it hard to get to grips with, and struggled
 on the first brief, Silent Movie, I felt it was hard to get my ideas from paper
 in After Effects and I didn't have good enough skills. I think this is reflected 
in my Silent Movie outcomes and if I was to re-do them now at the end of the
 module I feel that could be greatly improved.
However I feel that during the second brief of this module my skills improved
greatly, I felt a lot more comfortable with the software and I think my improvement
of storyboarding skills helped this. I am pleased with how my Top Ten moving images
came out, I think my skills could still be greatly improved to achieve more impressive
work but this is something I can continue to work on.

2.What approaches to/methods of design production have you 

developed and how have they informed your design development process?

Learning how to storyboard and timeline my work had been a whole

new method of designing that I have never used before. At first I found

 the whole concept of working with time quite confusing. I couldn't get

 my ideas that were in my head to translate on my storyboards and in After Effects. 
 However as time went on I came to grips with it a lot more and saw how 

spending time storyboarding and planning my ideas saved a lot of time and stress when working in After Effects.

I also learnt that aiming to do something amazing in 60 seconds on a piece

of software that was new to me was not going to happen. I learnt I had to

be realistic, I couldn't produce a Hollywood Blockbuster in the time I

had with the skills I had learnt.

I also found during this module that the best way of learning was to learn by

doing, at first I avoided using After Effects in fear of it but once I started

playing around on it I started to improve and gain more knowledge.

3.What strength can you identify in your work and how have/will you capitalise

on these?


I feel that I spent a good amount of time storyboarding my ideas before I started
working on After Effects. I feel this helped me a lot, I also spent time making
all my assets for my motion graphics so when I got into After Effects I was 
all ready to go and I could produce the work I had storyboarded and planed
to produce. I feel that this lead me to produce work how I had planned it to 
look in my head and on my storyboards.
I also tried to organise myself a lot more in this module, I tried to make
realistic plans for each day so I could achieve all I set out to do. I normally have
problems when it comes to my end result in projects but this module I tried not
to leave it all until the last minuet which ment I could produce an outcome which
reflected the amount of time and work I have put in throughout the projects.
I am most pleased with how my idents came out, I felt I planned and spent the 
most time storyboarding and organising these and this reflects on my final 
outcomes, I felt working to smaller time constraints for the idents worked well
for me.


4.What weaknesses can you identify in your work and how will you address these
in the future?


I feel like I could of pushed myself more and tried to learn the software in more
detail so I could of gained more skills to apply to my work.
I did find the software very challenging and I think this reflects on my 
outcomes for this module. I am pleased with what I achieved but I 
still realise I could still have a lot of improvement in my work.
I found working with time a hard concept to grasp, I feel I am a very much 
print based designer so this wasn't in my comfort zone. In the 60 second title 
sequence I tried to fit too much in which ment everything looked rushed
and the pace was too fast which I hadn't anticipated in my storyboards. I 
therefore had to go back and change my original idea.


5.Identify 5 things you would do differently next time and what you expect
to gain from these?
-Think about the timings when working with motion graphics, what I expect to 
happen may not always be the case.
-Push myself more to learn more skills and learn the software in more detail
so I can apply what I learn to my work.
-Do more contextual research so I can gain a wider knowledge of the 
possibilities that can be achieved.
-Leave my comfort zone more, I could achieve more than I think I can
if I try new things and be more open minded.
-You can never do enough storyboards and timelines, have as much information 
 as you can to work from and work with.

5. 5       5

Lazer Cut Induction

Today we had an lazer cutter induction, above are a few images of the possible outcomes and effects you can create using the lazer cutter and this is something we made to practice using the machine,

 

This now means I can book in to use the lazer cutting machine in the future which opens a lot more possiblities for futher work.

OUGD202 Christmas Present

I recieved this very appropriate gift for chritsmas, its a moleskine sketchbook with storyboards marked in already, it will be very handing to carry around with me and make notes and designs for the briefs during this module.

Vimeo

For this module we have to use Vimeo to upload our work onto our blogs as we are doing a lot of screen based work.

We were asked to either set up a Vimeo account or if we already had a an existing account make sure it works.

 I made an account last year so I tried to log on to see if it worked...

 And it was all fine!