End of Year Update: All Modules

Narrative Forms

Just a quick update on how my my narrative essay went. I wrote a piece on transmedia texts and how I could to apply transmedia storytelling to my comic book I wrote for the previous module.
I think it went well I will wait until it is marked and i have my grade before I go into more detail about it.

Visual Forms

I never went to the seaside to study my topic of pirate, I was meant to go with my dad to Portsmouth but family issues arose. However my friend went to Cardiff Bay and took some pictures for me. I have also being researching the pirate topic a lot but veered away from the topic as a typical study (not eye patches and peg legs) I looks more at cargo and the environment of the era, thing such as rock pools, the sea, sea life and cargo such as exotic animals and cocoa.

Today [April 21st] I have had a meeting with my lecturer suggestions to make my sketchbook stronger would be to focus on what my studies will be put towards? a film ? a painting?
Also I have done lots of painting and i should probably do more drawing ans sketches but my lecturer loves my painting process
I needed to work on more textures and perhaps focus more on quick smaller sketches rather than paintings and time consuming studies.

The hand-in went smoothly - almost to smoothly.

Production

[April 21st] "I've not updated this in a while but it has been hectic. Well Hell. I love the good stress of creating something but so far I have been working really hard and thing just keep going wrong mainly faulty technology, people not being professional/enthusiastic and other outside disturbances. It has effected me and my work greatly. "

"On the plus side!! I have how some rough sound off my musician for my film which is great!! I am also still on time with my schedule and hopefully all my hard work will pay off . I just push past this rubbish week."

[May 3rd] " I have had more issues with my collaboration; my artist seems unprofessional. They are most likely stressed, the main issue though is communication, I have tried to communicate. Perhaps not well enough, but I have supplied the means to create backgrounds and I am not sure how much more I can help. I am very grateful for the help, however it is poorly conducted."

Again my hand-in went very smoothly, I did finish all of my work there are still some things I would like to clear up with my animation to make it better; making it smoother and a few colouring issues that that I had, I would also like to improve on the consistency of my characters design, but that is is more of a learning curve for next time.

Production: Out of Time

An (over due) update on my Production "Out of Time"

I would upload a video, but the file is too big. I will upload closer to the deadline on the 13th May. 

So far things have not been going great and it is quite draining. Up-until a couple of weeks ago my project was going great, but ever since my computer crashed it has been a bit of a chore.
One thing after the other just started going down hill; I thought I lost my background artist due to her work stresses, I thought I may of lost my musician this week too- but that has all been cleared up. An due to needed a job desperately I have been having interviews and meeting this week to add to this it is my boyfriends birthday this week. Everything is just piling on now, but I know I need to keep on trucking.

I am still currently in the process of clean up, I hoped to be colouring in in this week but alas there is a long bank holiday weekend and uni is closed.
On the Left is my monthly schedule it is planned to the hour the orange is colouring, which obviously hasn't happened yet, it should be coloured by Thursday, but that leaves me with the conundrum of editing. On the Right is my daily planner to keep me sane, this is my page to show which shots have be cleaned, coloured and have backgrounds.

Backgrounds

I am currently working on backgrounds with my background artist,  whilst university is closed.
I am making some more neat lines for her.

It has been one stressful time in terms of backgrounds, due to ill communication I thought I had lost my background artist so I took it upon myself to get them done.
It was my understanding that  my BG artist would have textures and their own examples for me, but my lack of knowledge to how the art stand of this course works, this is apparently no so.
Instead, I have supplied them with neat lines of my background- some still need cleaning up but i simply have not had the time, they have to now colour them in, and try to mimic my style.

I am very thankful that I still have a background artist as I only really have 6 days to complete my film this is due to other none uni related happenings that were unplanned.
So again I am working a full pace but am still hindered by something that is out of my control. I am still working as hard as ever it is just draining me a bit now.

In hindsight, no matter how much i thought that i had planned it can always be planned better. Communication is key.

Plans for the Week

My plans for the coming week are to get into uni on Tuesday 3rd to get animating and clear up the last part of my animation, I still have 8 shots out of 19 to clean up. I also need to check up on my artist and see how the backgrounds are coming along.

Wednesday again with an early start, I will be colouring all the short shots, this should count about 8 shots.

This will be continued through Thursday 5th (Also my boyfriends birthday) so this will be a shorter day in uni, but i will be working very late. It is also the day that I check on both my BG artist and my musician to see how things are going.

Friday is a little more sketchy but I hope to have booked a room to get some sound affects - this shouldn't take the whole day.

Saturday - keep trucking
Sunday- Birthday celebration
Monday - Job Meeting

The rest is just too far away to even plan for, with the amount of things happening there are so many things that you need to adapt to.

Other Developments 

I have completed my collaboration with a Stop-Mo student, I will have to get permission to post the video on here.