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Project Proposal - Includes Audio problems and how to overcome them:

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Audio Podcast - theme tune opening for chosen show -Garage Band:

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Audio Podcast - theme tune opening for chosen show -Garage Band:

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The audio experiment I did with the show Maya the Bee was not that difficult for me to complete. As having previous skills on music, such as playing the guitar, piano and ukulele, studying it at GCSE and having an interest for it, I enjoyed the actual composition. I used garage band to record a live ukulele recording and the garage band piano to add more instruments such as piano, orchestral instruments and bass. To figure out what kind of mood I wanted to create, I watched the opening of the show several times with the original song muted so that I could imagine an alternative song in my head. The show is for children and the opening is very delicate, innocent and playful. So, keeping this in mind I would hum melodies to myself while watching the footage until I decided on a four-chord chord sequence consisting of C, G Am and F as a major tone would be perfect for a happy setting. I then would play this while watching the footage to make sure everything was working well according to time. When I was confident with this I recorded it live and worked from there, playing piano melodies on top until I was satisfied and then adding some base instruments to thicken the homophonic texture of the music.

A difficulty I met was how to sync up the music to the actual events happening in the footage. For example, Maya would hop on flowers, on the water and had raindrops fall on her head. I wanted these moments to fit with the actual music and so using the piano to resolve this I would make sure a key was pressed in syncopation to the drops and footsteps. This made it seem like Maya was creating the music herself and overall tied in the theme tune and the music better, acting as if it was the original theme song.

The skills I used for this I already had, which is why there were little to no issues when doing it, but I know that by doing this audio experiment I will be more confident in the future with creating music for our animation, as I will have to make background music and disco music.

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Overall I think the voice acting is excellent, and the style of voices chosen for the character is very appropriate to the personas of the characters and really brings out their personalities, I also think that the manipulation of the voices when shifting the pitch is very smooth and would sound natural to an audience. The music produced, really reflects the style of animation and the overall theme of the eBook, as it blends in so seamlessly and does a good job of changing the mood of the scene. The sound effects were also very smooth and rally made the whole animation come together. -- Paige Selves.

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Project proposal - Includes visual  problems and how to overcome them:

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Project proposal - Includes visual  problems and how to overcome them:

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We experimented liquid emulsion. For this we had to paint on white paper with black paint and create designs of our choice - I chose a butterfly shape and a paint splatter design - which I then uploaded onto Photoshop. I found the entire process confusing as I had never done it before, not knowing how to overlay a photo of my choice to make it look like a emulsion effect. However, one of my classmates had already practised this before and so gave me tips on what to do, so, by following her steps I increased the intensity of the black in levels in photoshop as well as the white so that there are no translucent areas when I mask the photograph on top. Once this was done I was able to figure out all I had to do was place my selected photograph on top of the paint splatter and then 'screen' the background to make the two merge with each other.

Visual experiment 2:

After I experimented with liquid emulsion i went onto doing line drawings on photoshop. I created two of these as before, meaning that I would have a total of four experiments altogether. Doing this included a lot of different steps such as colour dodge, manipulation of gaussian blur in photoshop, decreasing saturation by -100% and then altering the brightness and contrast. In the end this created a line-like effect which was the overall goal.

Visual experiment 3: The third experiment consisted of creating a background in Photoshop. This involved finding a simple image on google images (an iceberg) and opening it up in the software. After this I learned the basic skill off using the polygonal tool, the selection tool, the paintbrush tool and the eraser tool to create my image. What I would do is focus on one portion of my image - such as the sky - and I would select around it. Once I did this I would create a new layer that was empty and use the colour drop tool to select the basic colour of what I selected. For example; blue for the sky and darker blue for the sea. I would past this block colour over the selection. I would continue with this process with the rest of the image until it is entirely covered, and once this is completed I would be able to add some details, such as darker shading, highlight and a sun in the background. This helped with understanding how too create realistic background for our animation, which later resulted in us creating a fridge background, cafe and house using this technique.

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Project Proposal - Includes Audio problems and how to overcome them:

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Feedback from Pearsons and school children:

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Feedback from Pearsons and school children:

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Our feedback included to continue with our development as my group wants to create the second frame of our opening shot. We were told that our story was really unique and will appeal well to our target audience of eleven year olds. Pearson told us that our idea was very imaginative and something they haven't seen often, as well as liking the fact we decided to focus our work on the older end of the children rather than the younger. They thought the personality given to each of the characters were fun and cleverly designed such as the broccoli, the doughnut, pizza and burger. By making them so different it will help children pay attention to it as its more interesting.

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Duggy the Doughnut:

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I think that the style of the animation is very neat and flawless, the design style between each character is very consistent, but each one has its own noticeable features that reflect their personalities and character traits. The backgrounds are also well produced, and are really detailed, which makes the audience easily aware of the setting change, as well as looking natural in comparison to the characters and their design.

The animation overall is very smooth, and the characters move around the screen in an flawless manner, making the animation enjoyable to watch, as its aesthetically pleasing. -- Tim Amaryllis