Evaluation

1. Create a questionnaire and get at least ten people who have viewed your animations to answer it. Or hold a focus group to get audience responses to your animation.
Consider: content, style, characters, set, narrative, editing, SFX, sound etc
2. Complete a ‘Self Evaluation: Review of Work,’ sheet (below).
3. Review your audience responses and your ‘Self Evaluation: Review of Work,’ and write a 500 word report which critically evaluates both the product, production process and audience responses.

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2. Self Evaluation: Review of Work Sheet

1. Name:

Production Company:

Complete the following questions as fully as possible. Where the question requires you to give a numerical score, 1 is the lowest value and 5 is the highest.

1. How well do you think you have managed your time?

1 2 3 4 5

2. Give examples of where you managed you time effectively or where you could have improved your time management.

3. How would you rate your other crew members?

1 2 3 4 5

4. Why did you give the above score? Give examples to support this score in the box below.

5. How well did you fulfil your role on this project?

1 2 3 4 5

6. How did you fulfil your role? Give examples to justify your score.

7. How well do you think your animation answered the creative brief?

1 2 3 4 5

8. What aspects of the brief did you manage to fulfil? Give examples.

9. What areas of the project didn’t work well? In future what you differently?

10. What areas of the project are you most proud of?

Proposal

Channel Ident and E4 Sting Proposal for E4

Company Logo

Proposal

Production Company: Think of a memorable name for your production team.

Working title:

Suggestive of content

By line

A subtitle that explains in one sentence the style of the ident, the technical form it will use, the material it will contain, and the time period it will cover.

Synopsis

Write a full description of the animation, from opening shot to close.

What characters are you intending to use?

What are their lines of appeal?

How will it maintain audience attention, how will it inform educate and entertain?

How will it appeal to the E4 demographic?

Personnel

Who is going to be in your production team, what are their strengths?

How are you going to ensure that the production stays on schedule?

Resources

What technical resources will you be using?

What creative materials will you be using in your animation?

Schedule

Give some idea about a realistic schedule. When will pre production be completed?

When will production and post production take place?

Last Day!

As a matter of urgency I need everyone to have finished your learning outcomes 1 and 2 and uploaded it to your blog. We are having an examiner in to check your work. Here is a link to the checklist on LO1; https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1b0UY98IcT_rKEDifbQggSQ0DppDQd3M6lcAuffRVuX8&pli=1 make sure you include dates of key animation techniques. For LO2 You need to write a proposal for your idea. The proposal template is on http://www.newmediateacher.blogspot.com/. Please upload this to your blog - you can simply cut and paste from a word document. You all need to produce a mind map of ideas for your ident. In addition you also need to produce two of the following: A storyboard which explains what is going to happen in your animation. Character sketches from all angles. A mood board to which visually demonstrates the look you are trying to create. LO3 you need to upload your video to your blog. LO4: Give others feedback and write your evaluation (see checklist above and blog for more information).Thanks very much and I look forward to marking it soon! We will be starting a new Unit Next Week, so make a special effort to be there please!

Checklist! To do today!

Pitch Perfect

•An elevator pitch is an overview of an idea for a product, service, or project.

•The name reflects the fact that an elevator pitch should be possible to deliver in the time span of an elevator ride, meaning in a maximum of 30 seconds and in 130 words or fewer.

•It must include the following:

1.What problem is it you are trying to solve? (In this case it’s in the brief).

2.How are you going to solve it? What’s your idea?

3.What are the benefits of your idea over all the other ideas?

4.Make sure it’s clear and there are no questions?

1.In your pairs write down your ideas.

2.Write a short pitch of 130 words.

3.Practice it. Does it cover the 4 essential steps of an elevator pitch. Does it have the problem, your solution, the benefits and does it leave the person not having any questions?

4.Make improvements.

5.Pitch it!

TASK: Idea Development

• Produce a mind map which shows lots of ideas of how you can answer the creative brief you have been given. Upload an image of the mind map to your blog. Write, 'E4 ident,' in the middle of the sheet of plain paper and let your ideas flow!
• Write up your best idea into a blog post and explain it fully. Give as much detail as possible.

Fine Tuning Ideas

Today is all about generating and fine tuning your ideas, for your stop-motion animation, E4 channel idents. To make sure you are producing the best idea, work through the following:

1. Produce mind maps of at least 3 ideas which might answer the brief you have been given.
   Select your best idea.
2. If relevent produce a series of character sketches, which show how the main characters look from each side.
3. If relevent produce a mood board which illustrates, the 'feel' or 'mood' of the ident that you are going to produce.
4. Write a proposal (see post below called, 'Writing a proposal for your chanel ident')

Produce a storyboard for the animation (the storyboard must also show evidence that you have considered movement, frames per second, soundtrack, sound effect and script if appropriate).
If relevent produce drawings of the set that you intend to make.
All pre production work, needs to be evidensed on your blog, so scan, photograph, post or upload, your pre production work.

*If you are unsure about what pre production material you need to produce, then please discuss your idea with me and I can suggest the most relevent work for your project. Each idea will be different but you do need to produce a substantial amount of material.