Supervised Arts Leadership: Final work and Review

I went onto youtube and I needed to download the short version of the harlem shake for our animation, so I copied the link of the youtube video and pasted it into youtube converter and converted it as an MP3.

I then helped james with some of the photoshop work for the animations, I did things such as get rid of the backgrounds of the characters

Link to my padlet - my online wall for comments from my peers


What did I think of the finished animation?

I think we did pretty well overall because of the time we did it in, we got the animation finished in the first two weeks of starting the projects, we worked well together and we known exactly what we wanted to do and exactly how we wanted to get it done.

Did we achieve in what we set out to achieve?

Yes I think we did, we set out to make a short animation of 6 characters moving and we got it done, we stuck to the plan which we made for our self, I think there is some areas in which we could of improved on such as some of the characters movements if we decided to redo the animation its self but I am happy with how the animation turned out

Why am I pleased with the results?

I am pleased with the results we got because of the task we made ourself and the time we did the animation in, also it was one of our first times working together making a animation and we did pretty well considering this.

How well did I carry out my leadership role as a Director.

I personally think that I was good at my role within the group, I helped james with what he was doing,  by getting him images and telling him exactly what he needed to do or if there was any parts that
I thought needed improvements on the animation and because we communicated effectively it made my role a lot easier and better and because of our communication skills and my director skills, we completed it on time and in my opinion it was a good animation.

Surpervised arts leadership

In this new this new challenge we have been put into groups, some groups are larger than other groups but in my group there is just two of me us, me and my friend.

There is going to be two roles in our group, my friend, James,  is going to be an animator, using Flash,  and I am going to be the director of the group, this is because I am not that good at animating but he is.

This is a quick brief about being a director

The main skills required in this job are:

• Communication  - because you will be communicating with actors and also with some of your fellow workers in your area.
• Leadership Skills - being a directer is one of the main jobs if you are making a movie or something so obviously people will be looking at you to tell them what to do next.
• Good judgement - because say you are going to be filming at the night and you don't want rain or something you need to judge what time it won't be raining to film your scene.
• Providing encouragement - because say you have an actor or someone who doesn't think they can provide to the team you need to encourage them.
• Involving people - because some people might feel left out of the group so you need to slowly involve them so they feel more involved and comfortable 
• Reliable - because you are one of the most important people of the crew, people will be relying on you a lot to get a lot of the work done.

The qualities of a director that I would like to develop in this project are my leadership skills, I feel that is what I am supposed to be in a group and that is a leader, but I wanna improve some things in my leadership skills such as making people listen to what they have to do and explain it more in depth to them so the chances of them making a mistake is less, less mistakes the faster and better it gets done. I would also like to improve my judgement, so basically try to stay one step ahead of what I am doing and having a plan B if something goes wrong so I can change it without having a problem.

The idea

We are both going to choose three cartoon characters and then compile them and make some kind of music video with them, here are the characters that are chosen

Johnny test.

this is not the exact picture that will be used but johnny test will be bouncing around.

ash

not with this picture but in a different image he will be dancing thriller style

eeyore

 eeyore will be on the first on screen he will just be sitting there.

Planning Practical Issues:

Software going to be needed:
Photoshop, Flash, Adobe premiere; Internet

Photoshop will be used to make the images smaller and crop them a bit so they fit correctly for the flash and Flash will be for making the animation its self, also we used Adobe premiere to add the music and edit the animation its self to fit in with the music.

Internet will be used for Images and communication through comments in blogs between James and myself.

Key stages of development:

1.We need to start with getting the images that we are going to need then I will need to bring them into Photoshop and crop them all and so on for James to do.
2. I will then need to put them into the public folder for James to edit.
3. He will then put them all together and animate each character seperately.
4. I will then go onto Youtube converter and  youtube to download the audio we are wanting to use (Harlem shake song) using youtube converter.
5. After James has finished editing it, he will then send it to me for me to put into Adobe premiere
6. I will then need to put it into Adobe Premiere and also add the music I will have downloaded in stage 4.
7. I will then need to edit the animation and the music to fit together.




How did I contribute exactly?

I contributed to this in a lot of different ways as a directer for this project.

I was responsible for stages 1, 2, 4, 6 and 7 in the production process, soI think there was a lot of responsibility. All stages of work went according to plan, although James found various glitches and problems with the actual animation process in Flash and making the characters move properly.

How well did we work together as a team?
I thought we worked well together as a team and communicated effectively.

• I helped by helping with finding the images that were needed for this project
• I edited the images to make them fit in the animation 
• I gave feedback to my friends work to help him a long with the animation its self
• I found the sound file we needed for this.
• I cut the animation and sound file in Adobe premiere so it would fit together.

We also communicated regularly through comments on each others blogs. A link to some of the communication is here.

How did I do these?

I can only explain some of the parts I did for this project because some of these are self explanatory such as getting the images.

For editing the sound file and animation, I  used the end of the song for the harlem shake so it did not end abruptly, I did this by putting the end of the song at the end of the animation, I also had to cut parts of the animation, I had to cut it at certain areas so it did not look weird and out of place.

Here is the finished project

Arts award

My teacher reviewed my work up to now and I am going to comment on one of the things he said which was "you need to explain in more depth what you are learning, how something has been produced". I think this is true so I am going to go back to see what I can improve in that area to improve my work and get a much better grade. 

I am learning digital imaging so that can be taking photos and editing images using programs such as photoshop.

Action plan.  

• For this I need to be looking at different artists and different kind of edits such as creative images and what that image might mean
• I need to show images that I have took myself and images that i have edited
• Explain how i edited a image, such as what kind of effects i used for the image to make it look different than it originally was 
• give a reason why i used that kind of image and what I am planning to use it for

because I have already started this I dont exactly have a action plan of what stages i am gonna do in order because I have already started them all so I will just improve them all in one lesson but over I would say it will take me two weeks max to get this finished maybe one week if I do not have any other work I have to do is well at the same time