This was a very good example of a great pitch that was simple, yet entertaining for the audience. In this particular lesson, we took notes on what made the pitch really great, such as eye contact, engaging the audience, energetic energy/tone, no script and etc.

I think this task pitch was very valuable and could help with speech/pitching in the future. A good product without a good pitch won't sell, which therefore, I want to understand pitching and good points as much as possible.

This is important as we do the innovative idea, expo and the presentation displaying the product, where even if our product is amazing, the pitch is just as important to it selling.

I could possibly even, when I develop speech well, to use it future career paths that require speaking in front of an audience or in other subjects, like English which typically has the most 'speech' like activities

During this video, we went through and discussed the 17-year old shark tank donut entrepreneur. I did think the business was not that bad, but it's not the most original. However, I think he did sell himself well, such as showing a lot of data and statistic of how good his business is and the future of it (which is something to definitely add). We discussed what kind of 'os' (ethos, pathos and logos) and how these factors are important in speech and pitching.

Both the discussion and the pitch were very valuable. Since, I have never put in too much thought about what factors needed to be considered during my pitch. Now that we have gone through those factors, I would like to add more thought and using the thought process to use in writing the pitch to engage the audience. Although Logos is important in presenting a pitch, too much can make the pitch sound dreary and therefore, need some sort of balance between pathos and ethos. So that we can emotionally attach with the audience.

After going through the questions and planning, we scouted for feedback, asking both peers and the teacher. In the end, we got feedback that the idea was good, but there was a certain aspect that was better than the actual overall idea. After getting further confirmation, we decided to stick with the one aspect and expand the idea. I think this feedback section is an important part of this task and I will consider utilising more feedback from my peers in both AP and other subjects in the future.

While practicing, we tried to incorporate as many things learnt during classes, such as the '10 Tips for Improving Your Public Speaking Skills' by Harvard, which is a give good and simple advice. Although I don't remember all of the tips, these simple advice are very motivating and beneficial in keeping in mind when trying to improve my public speaking skills. As a reflection, I would like to improve by becoming more comfortable with pauses and silence; I tend to speed up or slow down too much when I start getting nervous or saying too many 'uh', 'um' and 'ah' kind of filler words.

During some of my peers presentation, I found the improvement amazing. I think I took note on a lot of speech skills for the groups, but the one that stuck out to me was the Fire or Flight group because the beginning was so engaging. They quite literally screamed in my face, but they were quick and concise and their message linked immediately to their problem. If I had to note, their use of being comfortable with loud voices was admirable, and although I think I did best voicing my pitch, I think I could have gone louder and try to engage the audience similar to the Fire or Flight group.

There was a lot of thought that went through through my head as I created different sketches.

The first sketch was a concept sketch. Originally, it was attempting to find an art style that would be approved by both my teammates and also test the waters with different game art. They were also intentionally made to figure out what a default character would look like. There was not much difficulty in creating the characters and to be honest, creating the concept sketches was easier than the pixel characters. I wanted the art to reflect the style of the game, which was meant to be a simple and easy game, so therefore the art needed to be simple as well.

However, briefly before the presentation, it was confirmed that the team preferred a more pixellated style that was similar to Stardew Valley. I think the pixelated was more of a visual style rather than a conventional style at the time. After the drawings, I found that pixelated style was a lot harder than I imagined. I really struggled to find a pixelated style that looked detailed, but simple; it could have been that I never had done pixelated before. I found that there was more difficulty than I initially thought, but I kept adapting and altering the process in which I drew certain things. It was really difficult in understanding the layout and etc. Due to the first background and item ending up very choppy and rather 'unstable', I was very conscious of each pixel. Although I wasn't overall to happy with the final pieces, I decided to keep drawing and understanding the pixelated style to grasp the concept.

There was a lot of creative and critical thinking during drawing, I would like to think up of a plan of how I'll understand the style and how I can practice and apply it quickly.

The rubric presented our weakness/what we were lacking. Being able to take negative critiscism and improve oneself is a very good skill for one to have and as a group, I think we took to this feeback in a very positive and optimistic sense. Since the feeback was quite positive, we knew we were on the right track and criticism shows how we can perfect ourselves and where to focus on.

The questions helped us understand where there was something lacking in our product and if we couldn't answer, research even more t be able to answer the question in the near future.

As the picture of the Prototype Development, there are a variety photos of the program and the code that was used for the game to work. I didn't contribute within this aspect, so I, therefore, can't reflect too much on it. However, I can they worked very hard on it, and as a group we had a very solid framework and schedule to work around. Although, progressing more on the group work development, I would press more on long term scheduling to have everything finished, so that there is no stress when we are too far behind. I think being in this group have taught me the very important values and key aspect that needs to be in a group for it to work, such as a importance of compatibility, leadership skills and etc.

I also tested with websites that pixelated the image, so I created a character and tested it out, which is the 'Character Art Development'. I wanted a style that was different from the 'squashed character' pixelated games tend to have. I thought a lot about the shape and form of the character, like utilising shapes to create defining character form, or utilising the simple big head and small body proportion that pixelated games would have. I thought a bit about the colour, but since I'm not good at colours and wanted it to be simple, I went for black hair and clothes.

Therefore, I decided to draw more detailed backstory like in games with animated scences. Although we didn't end up using it, I still wanted to reflect on it because I feel it was necessary to my growth.

In 'Backstory Art Development - 1', the sentence or idea was '18th birthday', but since the player moves almost immediately, I wanted to create a dimly lit and dark scene of a cake. I didn't think too much about the composition and the colouring, but I figured if the player was leaving the house as soon as they turned 18, there must have been a reason. So, the dark birthday cake was supposed to give the idea of being a bit lonely (Which is kind of the little backstory I gave for the player). I wanted 'Backstory Art Development - 1' to reflect some kind of reason the player was leaving.

In 'Backstory Art Development - 2', the concept was 'leaving the house/moving out'. This was the one where I didn't think too much, I just drew. I wanted to see where the direction would head if I didn't think too much about the composition or colouring or etc. I think this type of thinking and doing is a good routine to do from time to time. It essentially allows free reign of doing whatever comes to the brain, which I think is similar to the 'Paint the Elephant' and 'Shave the Monkey' routine I did before, except it was little more controlled, where it had stay within the layout of the sketch I did. It came out a lot brighter than I anticipated, but I think it looks alright.

Meaning that the poster had to be interesting or appealing from a single glance. The first poster I did, Poster - 5, was a poster based off other game posters. It was simple and easy, but it also captures the eyes with the contrasting colours. The silhouette has the benefit of being easily distinctive and recognizable by design. The contrasting colours can draw in the audience, but since there isn't a tone of detail the audience can understand the overall message, focus on the writing and/or marvel at the art.

After that, I ustilise divergent thinking to mass produce posters and the ideas. So although some didn't fit with the theme of our product, Poster - 1, it helped with generating posters like Poster - 4, which has an interesting design and colour. It gives a sunrise-like vibe, which I, and hopefully the audience, finds quite peaceful. I kept with the silhouettes because in design terms, are very easy to recognise and allows focus on the entire poster than the details.

I think design is a very important part in attracting attention and therefore, I used up a lot of creative 'juices'. Poster - 4 and most of the posters use only one type (at most two) of fonts. When there is a combination of different fonts, it makes it difficult for the audience to read and makes them uninterested, due to the 'clutter' look it has. Therefore, I made sure to look/research and understand the design behind the poster.

To continue generating more ideas, I did research and took inspirations fro the first few pictures that popped up, which helped inspire Poster - 2. Although it looks simple, making the poster served quite difficult. First, I needed to think about the colours and how they would interact with each other. Such that I chose, red, blue and a different shade of blue as the 'background' and yellow, which moves away and contrasts the other colours as the 'foreground'. Since, in a way it contrast, it draws attention to the middle. Colour coding and composing was the most difficult, since with these type of poster, you have to put a lot fo thought about the colours, such that colours can't be opposite of each and similar can't touch each other and similar colours must be a considerable distance from each other so that they can compliment and create a pattern that becomes a background. I think this one poster really tested my designing abilities, but it was valuable in understanding colour values and how I can use them to draw attention. This understanding could be applied to future art activities.

Poster - 3 had more of an actual app feel. I did this one with Tara, but the colours are light, neither too saturated or dull, although we want to draw attention. Colours that are too saturated actually disengages audience because to the audience, it looks like 'colour vomit'. It becomes even harder if other colours can't compliment it or the attention is drawn somewhere else because it isn't saturated enough.

The brochure was rather simple. We utilised a template and wrote the info that the audience would need to know. Through creativity, I wrote a simple and easy explanation as though I was pitching the sections to them. I wanted our team to sound energetic and enthusiastic about our objective. It did give me more experience in understand pitch like writing, but I find it unlikely in using this skill more in other subjects.