On Tuesday, in Johns class we updated our blogs and worked on putting sound and effects on our bendy figure animation we did the week before. On Thursday with Gavin we did more research and worked on our presentations which are due next thursday. My topic for the presentation is techno DJ Jeff Mills.

On Friday in Ewans class we finalised our idea for our animation, and started working on a rough storyboard. Our idea is "Don't Judge a Book by it's Cover", a white guy in a restaurant, an asylum seeker with a suitcase comes in, white guy ups and leaves in disgust. Later, asylum seeker is on TV scoring the winning penalty for the white guys team, and the white guy is excited and happy. back in the restaurant, the white guy is there again, the asylum seeker comes in and the white guy shakes his hand. We are now in the process of drawing up rough storyboards, and refining our idea.

Our first attempt at an animation, we came up with the idea as a group, then individually made the props at home. However, we managed to make it come together sucessfully, even although it does not have and sound as of yet.

This is the final version of Mr Bat goes on fire, with music and sound (and a little commentary from Big John!).

Timetable and Jobs for Project

Friday 20th November:

Today we split into our groups, to work out a timetable and allocate jobs for our next project, an animation on the topic, Show Racism the Red Card.

The job allocation is as follows:

• Filming - Ryan
• Props, Models and Backgrounds - Dawn + Abee
• Storyboards - Kayleigh
• Equipment + Sound - Adam
• Editing - Emma + Flea

The Timetable is:

Week Ending

• Wk 1 - 27/11/09 - Work out final idea for animation
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• Wk2 - 4/12/09 - Put together rough storyboard/final storyboard finished. Adam to think about sound for it.
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• Wk 3 - 11/12/09 - Sort Out Props, finish models
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• Wk 4 - 18/12/09 - Filming
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• Christmas Hols
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• Wk 5 - 08/01/10 - Editing
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• Wk 6 - 15/01/10 - Final animation finished
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• Wk 7 - 22/01/10 - College on holiday for a week
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• Wk 8 - 29/01/10 - Final submission due

It's Friday, and it's actually stopped raining!

2 weeks worth of classes this week. A week past on Tuesday with John we added sound effects and music to our animations, then in Angies class we made practice plasticine models for the animation. On Thursday with Gavin we did a review of a Michael Jackson film and then looked at audiences in the next class. On Friday with Ewan we started to do a practice animation with card, which we had to put together at home for this week. We did an assesment with Brian in the afternoon.

This week, we started a short animation with John using bendy figures, our group did YMCA on the beach. In the afternoon we made wire figures with angie as the start to our final animation. On Thursday with Gavin we started planning our individual presentations in the morning, and in the afternoon we did a task with and Oor Wullie story, putting it together from individual pictures. In the morning with Ewan we did our animation with cut out card.

Friday again...

2 weeks worth of work info today, last week we started thinking about our next animation project, and finished off our art projects with angie and brian.

This week we have been doing more research for our new projects in Johns class, and picked our groups for it, in Gavins class on Thursday we did our listening assesment, and work on types of audience. In ewans class on friday we finished off our flip book animations using Imovie, and uploaded the finished result to youtube. It can be found here.