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