Fanisi+Mbozi+Unit+4

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We also had skills Test in this Unit, but i lost mine because my flash-drive got broken so i lost the work but i was able to upload this clip i had made for fun in class

Investigation:
Investigation In this unit we will be investigating animation. Animation is used in many modern day movies today, it just that big companies (like: Pixar, DreamWorks etc) have more complex animating programs. But animation: Unit Question: How Can I Use Animation to Educate my Community? Animation can be used for a lot of things, the main things being; You can educate the community using animation by creating a film/videos showing what can happen if poor choices are made, or if you lies, or plagiarize etc Basically it is having stories with morals at the end here are some examples of videos: These are just examples but there are many more types of videos that can be made and used to inform the community. Must follow the story board Must have 6 scenesMust 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
 * Is when a sequence of pictures is played very fast to give the illusion of movement.**[1]****
 * To inform
 * To entertain
 * To educate
 * Stickman steals something from a shop, he thinks he can get away but is caught and put behind bars (lesson: DO NOT STEAL)
 * Stickman doesn’t listen to teacher in class, and forgets to revise, the next day Stickman fails his test (lesson: PAY ATTENTION IN CLASS)
 * Stickman starts smoking, gets addicted and ends up getting a disease that kills him (lesson: DON’T SMOKE)
 * Stickman goes hiking without a map and gets lost (lesson: LEARN TO PLAN AHEAD TO AVOID PROBLEMS)
 * Design Specifications**
 * Does it follow the storyboard? || Yes || No ||
 * Does it have 6 scenes? ||  ||   ||
 * Is it 150 frames long? ||  ||   ||
 * Does it have introduction scenes? ||  ||   ||
 * Do I have a layer for each different scene? ||  ||   ||
 * Is the animation timed properly? ||  ||   ||
 * Can people understand the story and learn from it? ||  ||   ||

[1][|www.wikipedia.com]

Design:


Plan: Plan www.bmisclass2010. wikipace.com
 * **Date** || **Day** || **Criteria** || **Task** || **Deadline** || **Resources** || **Comments** ||
 * **17/05/13** || Friday || Criteria C: Plan || I have to star my plan and write in it what my schedule looks like for the next few weeks || 3rd May || Microsoft Word || I have to plan roughly how long this unit is going to take me to complete and try to stay on schedule. ||
 * **23/05/13** || Thursday || Criteria C: Plan || Finish off my plan and upload it to the wiki if possible begin my creation || 3rd May 2013 || Microsoft Word

Macromedia-Flash || Finishing off the last details for my plan, || My Design || I’ll begin by looking first at my design and determining what I am going to use (layers, merging, etc) || My Design || Spending full time during lessons with my creation. || My Design || Spend full time during the lesson on my creation and doing some __#|work at home__ if I have to. || My Design || Spend full time during the lesson on my creation, looking if improve it. || My Design www.bmisclass2010. wikipace.com || If I am not yet done I will complete it at home || www.bmisclass2010. wikipace.com || Check that every process in making my final product is found in the evaluation ||
 * **24/05/13** || Friday || Criteria D: Create || Begin or continue with my creation using the design that I chose. I’ll begin with the background layer so that after that I have to do is create my video || 17th May 2013 || Macromedia-Flash
 * **30/05/13** || Thursday || Criteria D: Create || Continue with creating the video and making sure that I save it often so that I don’t lose my work || 17th May 2013 || Macromedia-Flash
 * **31/05/13** || Friday || Criteria D: Create || Continue with my creation making sure that it follows the design. || 17th May 2013 || Macromedia-Flash
 * **6/06/13** || Thursday || Criteria D: Create || Continue with my creation || 17th May 2013 || Macromedia-Flash
 * **7/06/13** || Friday || Criteria D: Create || Hopefully finished with my creation by now and upload it to the wiki || 17th May 2013 || Macromedia-Flash
 * **1306/13** || Thursday || Criteria E: Evaluate || Start on my evaluation and evaluate my product against the design specifications. And have someone watch my video || 24th May 2013 || Microsoft Word || Talk about each stage I went through in making the creation and saying how I could improve ||
 * **14/06/13** || Friday || Criteria E: Evaluate || Complete my evaluation and upload it onto the wiki. || 24th May 2013 || Microsoft Word

Create:
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Evaluation:
Evaluation In this unit we have been using animation on Adobe Flash to create stickman animations that can help educate the school community. In plan I put on all the tasks I intended to do, but most of the time was consumed in making my creation, because animation take very long to do. In my plan I had to make sure that I met all the deadlines and do according to the timetable on the plan. But following the plan wasn’t easy, mainly because there were so many other assessments that keeping to the plan was difficult.
 * Investigation**: We first had to do skills test to learn how to use Flash itself but sadly my flash drive where I stored the skills test went corrupt, but luckily I still had one animation that I hadn’t stored on my flash drive and I was able to upload it to the wiki. Other than that we also had to investigate ways of how we can use animation to educate the community, I gave some examples of what types of storyboards could be used to create animations that could inform/ educate the community, most of these examples also show how the positive and negative consequences of bad choices. I think I did a good investigation for this unit though I could have improved it if I talked about how animation works, and what can be done using it.
 * Design:** In the design stage I had created 3 designs, and chose one from them for my creation. The design I chose was the one where the stickman is given an assessment to do, but he procrastinates and wastes his time doing others things and ignoring his assessment until he actually forgets to do it and fails. I had designed and chosen this design because it reflects on what I used to do in the first term of Yr8 because; it had been hard for me to keep track of the time I had on mu hands for each assessment. So I designed this animation to learn not to waste time doing things that you can do later and do important thing first.
 * Plan:** These are the headers of the plan table:
 * **Date** || **Day** || **Criteria** || **Task** || **Deadline** || **Resources** || **Comments** ||
 * Creation:** Creation was a challenging stage for me because I was under a time limit, according to the plan I was about 1 week behind to where I should have been, which meant I had to works really fast. I tried to stay after-school on a Friday to finish off the creation in the library (because I don’t have flash at home) but the library was closed, so I had to cut off a piece from my original design, I had to change stickman’s deadline for his assessment from Friday to Thursday so that I had more time to finish it off. But the message through-out the whole play and this whole unit for me was: **LEARN TO MANAGE YOUR TIME**