Jabulani+chakhala+8sro+unit+4

=Animation=

**Name: Jabulani Chakhala**
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**Unit question:**
How can animation be used to inform and educate others?


 * Pre-Unit exercise (if any)**

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The current situation/problem:
= Year 8 Unit 5 Animation = = =
 * Unit 6: What are the consequences of poor choices? ** **Unit Question:** **How can animation be used to inform and educate others? [[image:bmisclass2010/Computer-Animation-Graphics.jpg width="457" height="400"]]**

From my point of view i know that animation can educate and even influence them to do better things. Animation is a technological style of programming which can help you either create a game or even anything as small as a cartoon. Animation can teach kids things from right and wrong like if you make a cartoon then you can make the cartoon look like if he is obeying school rules or things like that but the point is that it should be used to help kids understand right form wrong. Animation is also a way to teach kids how to make their own animations and cartoons for future things like working in software companies or just being a computer engineer. this can help kids achieve jobs in high industries like Facebook, Twitter, Mix it, Apple and etc. A quote from a website said " Animation can be used to inspire, educate, inform and entertain us, whiling showing us the world in a way we didn't perceive it before". Also there is a website called www.yany.org leads young teens to creating a skill using animation. this organisation is in partnership with Sony wonder technology lab which helps kids achieve the ability to make stop-motion animation. Animation can also teach kids how to preform CGI technology on their pieces to make them more authentic or just teaching kids how to improve on things lik movies, cartoons, games and other sorts of things and media. CGI is a type of animation which is most commonly applied to video games [] [|http://www.3dcreativemag.com] [] []

These websites have contributed to help and educating kids all over the globe to make and design their own animations and hopefully these can help the future with the help of these websites. Of course animation can also make things that can sometimes teach you right from wrong like the Teletubbies animation cartoon which teaches kids how to count, and everything basic in logic. Animation can also teach kids how to behave and act sensible rather than behaving rudely and misbehaving.

Tests
= DESIGN =

===My designs are all best on the idea of sounded alarms whether they are on fire alarms or just riot drills in the school. i have made three designs of skits which contain about 8 scenes. My designs are on the importance of how to obey safety alarms when they activate for certain reasons. Comparing my designs with the design specification i have reached all the required points for them to be a good quality although they may be simple looking but it meets all the specifications that are stated. And yes it also meets with my design brief which is of course what this is all about. I have chosen my second design which is about a boy who disobeys orders and in the end faces a massive riot while others are safe.===


 * ==**Specifacations:**== || ==**Yes/No**== || ==**Comments**== ||
 * ===**Must follow the stroy board**=== || ===Yes=== || ===Yes it does follow he chosen story board because it was the one which was appropriate for this specific task. of course I had to make the story board myself that's why it follows the story board.=== ||
 * ===**Must have 6 scenes**=== || ===No=== || ===No it does not because it has not been finished so I couldn't even get past 3 scenes let alone 6 scenes.=== ||
 * ===**Must be at least 150 frames long**=== || ===No=== || ===No, because I had not finished this product thus leading to why not enough frames.=== ||
 * ===**Must have some writing i.e. to introduce a scene or someone talking**=== || ===Yes=== || ===Yes, it has some text involved but it is very sloppy because I cannot make the text come and go as I say or as I please. So yes it has this specification but not as I would have liked it to be.=== ||
 * ===**Must have different layers for scene, you will probably end up with over 6 layers**=== || ===No=== || ===No I have not managed to add 6 layers because once again the product is not finished so I cannot have 6 layers. Thus the reason why I answered no.=== ||
 * ===**Does it get the message across to the viewer.**=== || ===No=== || ===No, because the product is not at all that finished so any viewer would not know what they were watching unless the product would have been finished.=== ||
 * ===**Must use some text.**=== || ===Yes=== || ===Yes It has text because you can see it when the student character is talking to the teacher character.=== ||
 * ===**Does it follow the design that i have chosen.**=== || ===Yes=== || ===Yes it does because even if it is not finished it has what my designs have shown so thus me answering yes to this specification.=== ||
 * ===**Does it play smoothly**=== || ===No=== || ===No it does not because it does not have everything playing nicely to what exactly I want like text or even imported images that are being used.=== ||
 * ===**Did you import any images**=== || ===Yes=== || ===Yes imported images are right their because you can see them like the whiteboard, thought bubble.=== ||
 * ===**Did the product become finished.**=== || ===No=== || ===This being because the Flash MX 2004 program restarted everything so I had to start EVERYTHING from the very beginning thus why I was left with not enough time to start again.=== ||

= PLAN = Step 1: Look at my chosen design and find images to use for my create like a whiteboard, megaphone, school desk, bag pack, chair, stool, breaking window, chainsaw and a gun.

 Step 2: Save all my images to a folder on my desktop and a folder in flash that way i have back up if one of them fail.

 Step 3: Open the program which is Macromedia Flash MX 2004 and immediately create every layer that would be needed which is Stickman, Teacher, Board, Desk in scene 1. Megaphone in scene 2, Teacher, Desk, Student in scene 3. Stickman, Desk in scene 4. Teacher, Stickman and the Stool for scene 5. Teacher, Stickman in scene 6. Stickman and Broken window in scen 7. And the last scene Stickman, Rioter 1, Rioter 2 and Rioter 3 in the last scene which is scene 8.

Step 4: Step 5: Step 6: Step 7: Step 8: Step 9: Step 10: Step 11: Step 12: Google Chrome USB || I have started of very strong but not as much as i would have liked to. I have made good progress by finding my images that i am going to be using for my create but i am falling behind with trying to find ||
 * Days || Timeline ||  || Resources || Comment ||
 * Thursday || 10:25- 11:20 ||  || Macromedia Flash MX 2004
 * Friday || 12:55-13:50 ||  ||   ||   ||
 * Tuesday || 11:20-12:15 ||  ||   ||   ||


 * ==**Resources**== || ==**Why I need to use it**== ||
 * ===USB Stick=== || ===I need it because I have to save some of the homework from class to my USB to work and finish at home for the next lesson.=== ||
 * ===Internet Explorer=== ||  ||
 * ===Flash MX 2004=== || ===I need Flash MX 2004 to do my entire work on for this entire unit thus leading to why I put it up on this table.=== ||

This is my sheet of criteria which is from unit.The aim was to highlight the grades from last unit and try to improve on them for this unit that's why a few of these thing are highlighted:


=**Design Test's:**= =Ahmad:=
 * This is three tests that I have devised for**

=Faiza:= == =Pavitra:= = = ==

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**Changes that could be made for next time:**
===**Reading the evaluations that I have created, all these people pretty think that my create is much more weak than my practice pieces which were on the top of the page. comparing with all the design specifications this is below normal level and is not very well done. Look at the test I have given to chosen people they say it is ok but looking at the test that says a totally different story.**===


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

**TECHNOLOGY**
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