Good day!
This morning before the lesson I had decided to submit my U1A3T2 to "Zoetic Zoe" for submission, after I had also started to complete some work left for the "Amazing Adam" from the U10A1T2 he sent back. Within a few minutes before the lesson started, I quickly filled in the initial survey for today's new unit (39) - Web Animation in Interactive Media.
During the first lesson, the "Amazing Adam" sent us a starter power point which gives a general overview of what animations are - he made it interesting by giving rhetorical questions based off optical illusions that make your eyes perceive we really don't see. This was a good starter and got me curious of what the unit has to offer. After the starter, we quickly did our Thursday quiz of the week made by Brandon before we forget - the video was about animation in general with the procedures to understand it. I found the video confusing as the narrator was an expert whereas I've just started out. However, most of the questions in his quiz are more observant so in the end I resulted in 8/10 points. The winner with 10 points is Sami H and Alex W; to make this fair, they did a rock paper scissors and Sami H resulted with the duel monitors. The loser for this week was Jordan B and thus, he needs to provide next week's quiz.
Moving on, whilst the "Amazing Adam" was explaining about the next task I quickly dragged the new folder structure for this unit's content. Then we loaded up five different animated banners about world tours from older years as examples. In a word document that the "Amazing Adam" laid out for us specifically, we filled in what was good and what could be improved for each. In addition to this, we also had to give it a P/M or D grade and justify why. I presume that banner one was more P based to banner five being D. It gave me a little view of what we will be soon making and this excited me as I would like to make a better production than last years! Just as I was pumped, the "Amazing Adam" told us that we must first do the theory - understandable but reallyyy?! =) I'm kidding, I believe it's beneficial to learn what to do, and where animations came from.
Consequently, the "Amazing Adam" started covering the first assignment which included persistence of vision, the impacts on animations with frame rates, frames, key frames and onion skinning. I've heard of these terminologies before therefore I understood it better when we watched the videos he showcased. After this we all started a part on the first assignment (roughly consists of 5 - 6 large sections) and typed out the definitions and so forth. I am aiming high for distinction once again and therefore I have tried to follow the criteria as shown. According to the "Amazing Adam" I see to be in the right place. Moreover, I have typed a total of 500+ words for just one part, and there's four within the first piece of work. I don't believe quantity is beneficial but as long as I cover absolutely everything key in the SoL then I will be achieving the criteria, hopefully.
Soon later, we got stopped and most of us wanted to continue. However, the "Amazing Adam" needed to move onto the next part where he split the whole class into many pairs. This time round, I got paired up with Liam B. Together, everyone was assigned to a different subject to create a powerpoint with a set of instructions on what to include, and that we have to pitch for tomorrow. Willingly, we both worked hard on researching about 'Flick Books', one of the earliest reasons and factors which led animation to where it is. We had spent a lot of time making the power points very factual as everyone will be sharing these information around. However, he told us to create a copy and shorten down the second version as it is meant to be an encouragement for others to research rather than copying directly from us, which is good.
Once again, we got interrupted politely once more and we had to do a short five questioned quiz about full referencing. To the others told me that they never cared they now need to step up their game a bit as it is required to use full referencing in this unit. Me and a few other peers are expected to know this, but obviously I had made some mistakes. I'm still human. After, we continued with the powerpoint to where everyone was exhausted and was willing to go home. On the other hand I kept going at it to complete this. By the time I had finished labelling which slide myself and Liam are presenting tomorrow, he had already left.
With the remaining ten minutes, I submitted work that were resent once for "Jovial John" (U10A1T2) and the "Amazing Adam" (U10A1T2). Despite having an incredible amount of work left, I've been checking them off my to do list as fast as possible!
Overall today was fun, a lot of things were stuck into our brains today and tomorrow is the day to pitch. Over tonight I will be practising and will make any amendments with Liam tomorrow. Out of the class, we believe to be one of the few who are very ahead and are almost ready. So I hope tomorrow goes out smoothly because the work load can become stressful. Nevertheless, great start!
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