Showing posts with label OUGD202. Show all posts
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Wednesday, 8 February 2012

OUGD202 - Self Evaluation


BA (Hons.) GRAPHIC DESIGN
LEVEL
05
 Module Code 
OUGD202               


 Module Title
DESIGN PRODUCTION - DIGITAL



END OF MODULE SELF-EVALUATION

NAME
Charlie Crosby


1.  What skills have you developed through this module and how effectively do you think you have applied them?

I’ve learnt a lot of new skills through this module as I’ve never touched on digital design and motion graphics. In particular I found that the development of storyboarding as a skill was essential, It introduced me to considerations such as action and title safe zones, time and key frames.
After Effects was a completely alien programme to me before this module and although I’m not a particularly digitally driven designer I grasped it and appreciated it straight away.


2. What approaches to/methods of design production have you developed and how have they informed your design development process?


I’ve developed a new way of seeing and speculating things, noise and motions and time all play a factor in the way I’ve been considering my designs and this has increased more and more as the module has gone on.


3. What strengths can you identify in your work and how have/will you capitalise on these?

I would say the strengths in my work are the application of concepts, without a concept the design can seem random or neglected due to lack of attention. I tried to focus everything I was doing and everything I was designing on concepts driven by and relevant to the content of the project.


4. What weaknesses can you identify in your work and how will you address these in the future?

I felt as though I could have experimented more, and with that documented what I was doing more thoroughly to really develop my skills and learn more about the software. I wouldn’t put this down to procrastination but to a severe amount of personal, social and other academic constraints which were unavoidable.


5. Identify five things that you will do differently next time and what do you expect to gain from doing these?


  1. Be more aware of how well I’m documenting what I’m doing when using software, I want to develop a more thorough and consistent documentation habit.
  2. Make sure I have the content for my work ready before using software such as After Effects.
  3. Study more online tutorials and focus on home schooling myself more to discover new methods and approaches to my designs.
  4. Carry out more research throughout the brief to keep up to date and well informed about my content.
  5. Keep searching for inspiration, watch more video clips, read more articles and blogs, search for more designers and professional work to influence and fuel my creativity.



6.How would you grade yourself on the following areas:
(please indicate using an ‘x’) 

5= excellent, 4 = very good, 3 = good, 2 = average, 1 = poor

1
2
3
4
5
Attendance




x
Punctuality




x
Motivation




x
Commitment



x

Quantity of work produced


x


Quality of work produced


x


Contribution to the group




x
The evaluation of your work is an important part of the assessment criteria and represents a percentage of the overall grade. It is essential that you give yourself enough time to complete your written evaluation fully and with appropriate depth and level of self-reflection. If you have any questions relating to the self evaluation process speak to a member of staff as soon as possible.


TOP 10 THINGS - Final Title Sequence


Vimeo left me this confusing message...

"Daily upload limit reached

Sorry, you've hit the maximum number of videos you can upload today. You can either wait until tomorrow to upload more, or upgrade to Plus and continue uploading right now."


...so I've had to embed my final few videos using Youtube. The quality isn't as great as Vimeo but it does the job.

Tuesday, 7 February 2012

SILENT MOVIE - Silent Movies reviewed

I've changed a few parts of my silents movies in response to the mock submission. Mainly I've just altered the aesthetic on some of them to make them look like a set of short motion pieces in response to the same brief.


Untitled from Charlie Crosby on Vimeo.



Instead of having the word enter from behind the camera and falling as it it were a birds eye view, I've changed it so its like the word is bouncing of an unseen wall at the back of the frame. I needed to change this because the word was so pixelated near the start of the sequence and the falling effect was too quick to make out what was actually happening.

Untitled from Charlie Crosby on Vimeo.



I have changed the white background to the same feathered blue mask as the other sequences for this one.

Untitled from Charlie Crosby on Vimeo.



This, I feel, is one of the stronger sequences however the entry and motion of the final font wasn't in keeping with the neat execution of the other fonts. I've adapted it it by changing the position in the background that it appears and the speed of which it knocks the previous font out of the way. the movement is sharper making it feel like the new font is overpowering the previous and bouncing it out of the way.

Untitled from Charlie Crosby on Vimeo.



Again I just need to change the background for this sequence to match the others.

Untitled from Charlie Crosby on Vimeo.



I kept this one the same as I receive a lot of praise in the crits, and if it isn't broken then you shouldn't fix it. The sequence was noted as 'brilliantly executed' so I didn't want to risk tampering with anything. The Colour of the background is a little different to that of the others but when I changed it to be the same I lost the visibility of the word 'bounce', all the more reason to leave it unaltered.

TOP 10 THINGS - Packaging Design

Some quick layout ideas from my sketch book.



Went for a simple layout with one of the strongest of my illustrations.





Finished DVD cover in context.




Monday, 6 February 2012

TOP 10 THINGS - Title Sequence design process in After Effects

This is a set of screen grabs of the full After Effects file I was working with for my final sequence.