Wednesday, 17 December 2008
Plans for 2009
We have all the footage needed for ad1. All that is left is to complete it. However for ad 2 and 3 I will have to reshoot a few scenes because the movement in a few shots does not flow with the animation. My task will be to re film these shots with my sister at the start of next year while laura continues with ad 1. My main problem for next year is that i have 4 exams to revise and sit in January which means i may have to spend less time to spend on our coursework. However, I hope that by this time laura will have flash at home which will mean she can spend extra time on it. Our group aim is to have ad one complete by january. It seems that we have bitten off more then we can chew but we dont intend on giving up and I feel that we are making more progress each day.
Current status
where I'm at so far...
Unfortunately we didn't meet the first deadline which was to have ad1 complete for last week. At the firt deadline we only had the first shot complete. However, for us as a group this was an achievement as we had many problems getting started due to the footage not fitting with the movement.
Looking at the rate at which we are working, the time its taking us to complete one shot and the deadline itself, i cannot see us having all ads complete to the standard we want for feb. Our main problem is time, or rather lack of. But I don't believe that we aren't using our time effectively, to day i was working on our coursework from 9:20am until 11am. I spend at least 2 hours twice a week working on our coursework atm but little is achieved in the time as I think we are paying too much attention to detail and wanting everything to look perfrect. Another factor is that I'm not the best at using technology and I have struggled using flash. However I'm progressing each time I use it.
So far I have learnt how to use the different drawing tools and prefur to use the mouse and not pen to draw objetcs. I have learnt a few keyboard short cuts and how to create a motion tween to make objects move. All of whcih i have a challenge.
As it stands. laura is better at using flash then me as ahe has more experience and her pva course thing has taught her animation. However, laura has far less free periods then me, so im trying to spend as much time as i can in the mac room doing whatever my skills enable me too. Laura is trying to get flash as home so she can work on it there which will benefit us and our coursework.
Hopefully, with a bit more practise I can learn to use flash more effectively so that I can progress further with our coursework.
Unfortunately we didn't meet the first deadline which was to have ad1 complete for last week. At the firt deadline we only had the first shot complete. However, for us as a group this was an achievement as we had many problems getting started due to the footage not fitting with the movement.
Looking at the rate at which we are working, the time its taking us to complete one shot and the deadline itself, i cannot see us having all ads complete to the standard we want for feb. Our main problem is time, or rather lack of. But I don't believe that we aren't using our time effectively, to day i was working on our coursework from 9:20am until 11am. I spend at least 2 hours twice a week working on our coursework atm but little is achieved in the time as I think we are paying too much attention to detail and wanting everything to look perfrect. Another factor is that I'm not the best at using technology and I have struggled using flash. However I'm progressing each time I use it.
So far I have learnt how to use the different drawing tools and prefur to use the mouse and not pen to draw objetcs. I have learnt a few keyboard short cuts and how to create a motion tween to make objects move. All of whcih i have a challenge.
As it stands. laura is better at using flash then me as ahe has more experience and her pva course thing has taught her animation. However, laura has far less free periods then me, so im trying to spend as much time as i can in the mac room doing whatever my skills enable me too. Laura is trying to get flash as home so she can work on it there which will benefit us and our coursework.
Hopefully, with a bit more practise I can learn to use flash more effectively so that I can progress further with our coursework.
Tuesday, 16 December 2008
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