Above is the PDF file of the Project Proposal Document I have created and below is the text contained within the Project Proposal Document exempt from the Action Plan and the Bibliography
Throughout this year of the course I have made a few animations leading up to my FMP, steadily improving my digital drawing skills. Mainly in terms of drawing and creating realized backgrounds. I wanted to focus on improving this because this has been something I have struggled with throughout the course. Moreover, in this final project I am going to research further into creating depth and using light/shadows and how to create them through the programs I am going to use (Animate and After Effects.)
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I want to do this as this will help me to stage and block the animation and where to place different assets in relation to one another. I have also improved my editing and animation skills and know my way around Animate pretty well and want to improve my drawing skills to help with this even further.
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I also have gotten better at research and planning, I know how to analyse the research, evaluating how I could use it to get the best result possible, I am aspiring to achieve a distinction as this is a personal goal for myself to show that I am capable. I have more motivation to achieve this year and have better practical and evaluative skills to go along with this.
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In the first year my research and planning was not the best but I know that they are essential to achieving the best result possible. I am planning to go to Norwich University Of The Arts after this course and I need to get a pass as I have a conditional and I want to get a distinction for personal satisfaction and to show more of what I can do to the university.
I am going to make an animation that serves as a precursor or a prequel to my final project animation I did for the first year “Fraser.” It is going to show what happened to lead up to the events seen in “Fraser.” The feel of this animation is going to be more sad than creepy as the story is going to show Angela’s death and be told in retrograde so it is going to start with the ending of “Fraser”; with him running through the forest and then flashback to a coffin (Angela inside) and then show the events of Fraser and Angela’s life in either an episodic or retrograde format to elude to the fact that the events seen in “Fraser” are all metaphorical and only happening because of Fraser’s deteriorating mental state due to his daughter’s death.
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I am going to research heavily into technical and practical elements this time as these are the things that I want to improve upon most. I am going to watch YouTube tutorials and analyse how easy it would be to implement these ideas in my animation. I am going to spend most of my time drawing assets on Photoshop and creating backgrounds on After Effects to make the most use out of the camera tool to experiment with depth.
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Nearing the end of my practical process I may use a sound studio to create Foley. This would be to achieve more believable sound effects in my animation and not have all of my sounds downloaded. Moreover, I am going to plan thoroughly this time around and draw in depth storyboards to give me more indication of where to take my animation and keep me more on track.
When evaluating my process and project I am going to write a Tumblr post analysing and evaluating after every piece of substantial work I do and transfer this analysis into a production diary. The production diary would include what I have done that day and would I could do next in the process of making the animation.
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Moreover, I would write about how I could improve what I have done that day to have the best chance of achieving my desired result of a distinction. Furthermore, each time I create a new draft of the “Angela” animation I will evaluate each aspect of it, by saying what I need to focus on next and which part of the storyboard I should create next and how I could make this easier for myself by evaluating what I did well and how to do that again.
Secondly, once I have evaluated a draft, I will go back after completing the rest of the drafts I want to complete and finalise it by editing in the sounds properly and redoing some of the animation that I could improve. When getting feedback from peers I will take what they say into account and evaluate whether what they say would be easily feasible for me to do in my animation process.