Simba+Murinye+Unit+4

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**Unit question:** ** How and why are gaming cartridges/Cd's devices changing? **
Task 1: Stick-man on the Ramp! Does he make it or not? media type="file" key="Simbaraishe.murinyeUnit4Rampstickman.swf" align="center" width="360" height="270"
 * Pre-Unit exercise (if any)**

' Task 2: Create a Text effects using their name media type="file" key="Simbaraishe.murinyeUnit4Nameeffect.swf" width="360" height="270" Task 3: Merge a picture into another one and then into a third one media type="file" key="Simbaraishe.murinyeUnit4MergeImages.swf" width="360" height="270" Task 4: Do an animation of a car coming towards any person and either hitting them or missing them. media type="file" key="Simbaraishe.murinyeUnit4Carcrash.swf" width="360" height="270"

= INVESTIGATION =

The current situation/problem:
Peaple are starting to smoke at a very young age thinking that it is cool but the real problem is that they don't stop and they don't know what it does to them. So what better way to fix i than through an animation.

Research


Here is a list of the harmful chemicals found in cigarettes


 * Pyridine
 * Hydrogen supplied
 * Toluene
 * Sculpture dioxide
 * Ammonia
 * Nitrogen oxide
 * Carbon monoxide
 * Hydrogen cyanide
 * Carolina
 * Nitrosamines
 * Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons
 * 1, 3-Butadiene
 * Chromium
 * Polonium-210
 * Formaldehyde
 * Cadmium
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Benzene
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Arsenic
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Tar


 * __Reasons not to smoke.__**


 * It is estimated that every cigarette you smoke takes 12 minutes off of your life.
 * Smoking causes more than eight of every 10 cases of lung cancer. There is no cure for lung cancer and the Victims usually die within five years.
 * Tobacco contains a poison called nicotine. An injection of one drop of nicotine in its purest form (70 mg) will kill an average-sized man. Cigarettes contain a very small amount of nicotine (between .1 and 2.2 mg). This amount will not kill you, but will make your heart beat faster and can make your hands shake.
 * Smoking increases your risk of getting many serious diseases including cancer, heart disease, emphysema and bronchitis
 * Fires started by cigarettes cause 25,000 deaths each year in the United States alone.
 * Smoking is dangerous for nonsmokers who breath the smoke from smokers' cigarettes. During the 12 minutes a cigarette burns, smoke from the cigarette fills the room with poisonous gases.
 * Smokeless tobacco increases the risks of mouth cancer and other diseases of the mouth like tooth decay and gum recession. Early signs of mouth cancer may occur after just a few years of use.
 * Smoking during pregnancy can harm the developing baby, it can cause conditions such as low birth weight and premature birth. As the child grows older it may develop problems such as the ability to process what they are hearing and ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder).
 * Over 400,000 Americans die each year from smoking-related diseases. That's more than from AIDS, alcohol, car accidents, fires, illegal drugs, murders and suicides combined.
 * A very strong relationship exists between smoking and academic performance. Of all high school seniors with an A average in their senior year, only 7% were currently daily smokers; of those with a D average, 46% were daily smokers.


 * __10 Reasons not to smoke for teenagers__**
 * Smoking under age 18 is illegal. Using, holding, or buying of cigarettes can get you in serious trouble, especially around school. In regards to school, you can be suspended, or even expelled!
 * Smoking reduces your ability to do things that require endurance, such as sports, etc. The tar in the cigarettes covers up alveoli, which help you breathe, which makes for less surface area for gas exchange. In other words, you must breathe more to get the same amount of oxygen as if you didn't smoke. So the effect that has on sports is that you will get tired quicker due to a lack of oxygen, which inevitably reduces your endurance.
 * Smoking can seriously harm your body in ways of cancer, emphysema, etc. Also, it leads to your early demise.
 * Smoking is a repulsive habit, especially when it comes to the opposite sex.
 * Smoking makes you and your environment stink. Your room stinks, your house stinks, your clothes stink, and, if you have one, your car stinks.
 * The nicotine in cigarettes are extremely addictive, and, chances are that if you start early, then it'll be harder to quit the habit.
 * Smoking may cause tension between friend and family relationships. If anyone gets upset that you smoke, then you'd probably get angry and fight with that person, defending why you smoke.
 * It is also a very costly habit. You may lose all your money before you know it. For example, let's say that you smoke one pack of cigarettes per day, and the price is $5.00 per pack. Then every month you'd spend approximately $150.00 on cigarettes alone! That money could definitely be put to better use, such as to pay bills, or simply to go to the movies with someone once a week.
 * Why pay extra money to the government? With the high taxation of cigarettes, you're basically donating your money to the them. Approximately half of the price on a pack of cigarettes is tax!
 * Contrary to what you might hear in songs or see on TV or in the movies, smoking cigarettes DOES NOT MAKE YOU LOOK COOL

The Design Brief
Make an animation about stick man in our school environment making a good or bad decision.

The Design Specification
Must follow the story board Must have 6 scenes Must be at least 150 frames long Must have some writing i.e. to introduce a scene or some talking Must have different layers for scene, you will probably end up with over 10 layers Must be precise and go straight to the point. Must have some relationship to the daily life of a BMIS student. Must have and show the obvious difference between a good decision and a bad one Must have an element of comedy. Must be simple and easy to understand.

Tests
I will make a survey of 5-10 questions and ask 5 people to do them. The questions are :-

1)Did you like it? 2)What did you like? 3)Was it funny? 4)How was it funny? 5)If not how could it be more funny? 6)Was it simple to understand? 7) Was it long enough to make out what the story was about? 8)Did you see the relationship between the man and a student here? 9)Was it obvious to see what was bad and what was good? 10)Is it precise and goes straight to the point?

= DESIGN =

Evaluation
I choose design 3 because it follows the following design specifications
 * Must have some writing i.e. to introduce a scene or some talking
 * Must be precise and go straight to the point.
 * Must have some relationship to the daily life of a BMIS student.
 * Must have and show the obvious difference between a good decision and a bad one
 * Must have an element of comedy.
 * Must be simple and easy to understand.

These are the ones it does not follow


 * Must follow the story board
 * Must have 6 scenes
 * Must be at least 150 frames long

The ones above are irrelevant right now so design three follows all the relevant ones.

= **PLAN** =
 * =====**Date**===== || =====**Work**===== || =====**Timeline (in minutes)**===== || =====**Resources**===== || =====**Comments**===== ||
 * =====06/05/13===== || =====1) 1)Open and look at wiki spaces assessment criteria page=====

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|| =====Computer (monitor, CPU, mouse, keyboard)=====

Working internet connection, electricity, internet browser
|| =====The Internet connection might be slow so I might need that 5 mins===== ||
 * =====06/05/13===== || =====2) Open my unit 4 page and look at design specs===== || =====3-5===== || =====Computer (monitor, CPU, mouse, keyboard),=====

Working internet connection, electricity, internet browser
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 * =====06/05/13===== || =====3) Open flash mx and save document with appropriate name===== || =====2-3===== || =====Computer (monitor, CPU, mouse, keyboard),=====

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 * =====06/05/13===== || =====4) Name 1st layer “Background”===== || =====0-1===== || =====Computer (monitor, CPU, mouse, keyboard),=====

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 * =====06/05/13===== || =====5) Name 2nd layer “Ash tray”===== || =====0-1===== || =====Computer (monitor, CPU, mouse, keyboard),=====

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 * =====06/05/13===== || =====6) Name 3rd layer “Simon”===== || =====0-1===== || =====Computer (monitor, CPU, mouse, keyboard),=====

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 * =====06/05/13===== || =====7) Google image search picture of an expensive artwork===== || =====2-3===== || =====Computer (monitor, CPU, mouse, keyboard),=====

Working internet connection, electricity, internet browser
|| =====Preferably a self portrait.=====

Extra time needed in case of slow connection.
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 * =====06/05/13===== || =====8) Copy and paste picture in layer “background”. Copy the frame up to 150 (because it won’t move)===== || =====2-3===== || =====Computer (monitor, CPU, mouse, keyboard),=====

Working internet connection, electricity, internet browser, Flash mx
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 * =====06/05/13===== || =====9) Draw stickman “Simon” in his layer (with detail)===== || =====5-7===== || =====Computer (monitor, CPU, mouse, keyboard),=====

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 * =====06/05/13===== || =====10) Draw the ash tray in its own layer (with detail)===== || =====4-5===== || =====Computer (monitor, CPU, mouse, keyboard),=====

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 * =====06/05/13===== || =====11) Draw the table in the ash tray layer (in detail)===== || =====3-4===== || =====Computer (monitor, CPU, mouse, keyboard),=====

Electricity, Flash mx
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 * =====06/05/13===== || =====12) Make Simon a speech bubble saying “My dad always smokes and says I should never do it because it kills you”.===== || =====5-12===== || =====Computer (monitor, CPU, mouse, keyboard),=====

Electricity, Flash mx
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 * =====06/05/13===== || =====13) Make Simon a speech bubble saying “well here’s my chance he left his cigar on the ash tray===== || =====5-12===== || =====Computer (monitor, CPU, mouse, keyboard),=====

Electricity, Flash mx
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 * =====06/05/13===== || =====14) Save my document and log off.===== || =====3-4===== || =====Computer (monitor, CPU, mouse, keyboard),=====

Electricity, Flash mx
|| =====Do this because flash mx does not work properly.===== ||
 * =====07/05/13===== || =====15) Open flash mx and open my document.===== || =====1-2===== || =====Computer (monitor, CPU, mouse, keyboard),=====

Electricity, Flash mx
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 * =====07/05/13===== || =====16) Open my wiki spaces page and look at my design 3.===== || =====1-2===== || ===== =====

Working internet connection, electricity, internet browser, Flash mx
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 * =====15/05/13===== || 17) Finish the animation || 2 days || =====Computer (monitor, CPU, mouse, keyboard),=====

Electricity, Flash mx
|| Might take some time ||

= CREATE = media type="file" key="Simbaraishe.murinyeUnit4Create.Flash8JCR.swf" width="432" height="324"

Here are some pictures of the progress of my Create Stage:-

This one is were I had just drawn my stick man.

I had just done the background.

I had put the picture for the background.

I had put the text and the picture also for the background.

This is were the stick man had moved to the table were the ash tray.

The stick man had moved his hand to pick up the cigarette.

The cigarette was in his mouth as he was taking in the smoke.

I added this cross bone to signify that he is going die eventually die because of smoking

This was showing my point that you dont have to smoke



There some things I had to change in the animation because some of them would save me a lot of time not doing. One of them was the beginning part were originally Simon was going to walk to the table were the cigarettes were but instead I decided to give him roller skates thus breaking another school rule. I removed the element of comedy in my animation because this is a serious topic and it is very hard to make it funny. I could also have made some more changes to make it more visible that this is in school. For example I could have set it in a different place that it would be visible that it is on school.

= EVALUATE =

I am going to change my tests because they are not evaluating according to the design specifications. Here are my new questions which were already answered by James Nitz and my self.

My tests had very easy questions that could have been answered by anyone after seeing the animation and after seeing the proof of layers and frames because the questions were easy to understand and went straight to the point. Question 1 showed me that the animation followed the chosen design. Question 2 showed that it had to have at least six scenes which it did not so this would be one of the things I would change. Question 3 showed that the animation had at least 150 frames I should have made it clearer in the create but this was not my fault because I could not make the print screen any clearer to see the numbers. Question 4 showed that I followed the design specification that I had to have some writing at a point in the animation I had it in the beginning. and in other part too. Question 5 showed that it has at least 3 layers it actually has 4 layers. Question 6 is based on opinion and question 7 shows a good or bad decision being made.
 * ===Question=== || ===James=== || ===Myself=== ||
 * 1)Does it follow the story in the design? || Yes, the basic story || Yes ||
 * 2)Does it have at least six scenes? || No || It has 4 ||
 * 3)Does it have at least 150 frames? || I don't know but I think so || Yes ||
 * 4)Is there any writing at any point in the animation? || Yes || Yes at the beginning ||
 * 5)Does it have at least 3 layers? || Yes it has 4 || Yes 4 layers ||
 * 6)Is it easy to understand? || Yes very simple || Yes ||
 * 7)Does it show a good or a bad decision being made? || Yes the smoking || Yes ||

Here are my previous test questions which I am not going to use.

1)Did you like it? 2)What did you like? 3)Was it funny? 4)How was it funny? 5)If not how could it be more funny? 6)Was it simple to understand? 7) Was it long enough to make out what the story was about? 8)Did you see the relationship between the man and a student here? 9)Was it obvious to see what was bad and what was good? 10)Is it precise and goes straight to the point?

My tests showed that I did not spend enough time on making the product; I spent too much time on the plan and and I was already behind in time because I spent a lot of on the design. I had enough time to do the whole thing but I did not use it wisely. If it were possible to get more time all the stages in the parts of the design cycle that I did would have been better and in more detail. I should have balanced out the time that I spent on each stage.


 * ==Stage== || ==Grade== || ==Reason For Level .== || ==How to improve next time .== ||
 * ==INVESTIGATE== ||  ||   ||   ||
 * ==**DESIGN**== ||  ||   ||   ||
 * ==**PLAN**== ||  ||   ||   ||
 * ==**CREATE**== ||  ||   ||   ||
 * ==**EVALUATE**== ||  ||   ||   ||
 * ==**ATTITUDES IN**==

**TECHNOLOGY**
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