In case the worst happens..

Felt i ought to make posts on here in the even that my presentation doesnt work. Which knowing my luck, it probably will.
Ive just found that my laptop will not allow me to burn DVD's and so am currently downloading a trial version of Nero in the hope this will allow me to. Otherwise im royally screwed.
Regardless, ill keep my head up and remain positive that my prsentation will go well. I've been well prepared, had all my work completed in advanced and just had to worry about meeting the learning outcomes, hopefully i have, though i will admit i struggle sometimes with understanding the learning outcomes.



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Introduction:
Throughout the last 9 weeks, I have completed 3 short projects.
This module is intended to help me develop an insight into the nature, purpose and direction of Multimedia.
During this presentation I am going to show you how I have been able to:

- Identify appropriate methods for structuring design work:

- Define issues which arise from your relationship with audiences and/or users.

- Demonstrate knowledge of exploration and enquiry through the development of innovative and novel ideas.

- Demonstrate evidence of problem solving through iterative development

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Identify appropriate methods for structuring design work:

Throughout the course we have embarked on 3 different Assignments, each requiring a different approach to the designing our solutions.
For our Interactive Narrative Assignment, recognising a structure was vital to the success of your flash narrative. I achieved this by:

Following extensive research and understanding the way Flash works,
allowed me to recognise how narratives worked and were produced.

brainstorming ideas and developing a narrative structure/flow chart.

gather research from numerous sources.
Therefore, I did not only research existing narratives,
but looked towards films, games and books too.

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Continued;

It was important to structure my work in a format relevant to my assignment. As commonly stated, Form Follows Function, and so for my Narrative I created a flow chart to symbolise my intentions in Flash.
For my Pixilation however, I created a short
storyboard of events.
I jotted in note form my intentions
for every section of the animation,
meaning everything was orchestrated and
I knew what was being performed next.
This speeds up the production and
means everything is more focussed,
the design wouldn't become distracted or off track.

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Define issues which arise from your relationship with audiences and/or users.

Throughout the assignment we encountered numerous incidents where the relationship between the user had to be addressed.

During our Interactive Narrative, I had to recognise how easy my narrative would be to interact with.
I had to see my narrative through the viewers eyes and ensure my narrative is user friendly, that the user could interact and understand the intentions of my narrative.

Making my narrative quite abstract or not giving the user enough direction could cause issues as they may not understand what is being asked of them. However, it was important to make sure the element of exploration and discovery was present in the narrative, this meant there was a very fine tightrope to walk, between allowing the user to explore and making something simply difficult.

During my Pixilation, it was imperative that the content was clear and concise. By this I mean that from a very early stage the user would be able to understand what was happening and could follow the narrative of my stop motion.

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Demonstrate knowledge of exploration and enquiry through the development of innovative and novel ideas.
Through the use of:
Flash - Narrative
Premier – Pixilation and One shot
Photoshop – One Shot and Narrative
Sony Z1 Video Camera – One Shot
Cannon 40D SLR – Pixilation and Narrative

I have successfully and explicitly shown
exploration of various media
and techniques.

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Continued;

Through extensive research of target markets and various existing media such as:
Similar products, eg narratives or pixilations
Films,
Books,
Trailers,
Games.

I was able to understand and in turn synthesise new ideas from it.

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Demonstrate evidence of problem solving through iterative development

As part of the design process, when mistakes were encountered,
We would repeat the process (iterative development) to revisit and rectify our mistakes.

Our first attempt was shot using the
wrong orientation.

We noticed this mistake and through
using iterative development we
recognised our mistakes and
re-addressed them. Our final piece
Is therefore shot with a better
composition and uses a landscape
orientation.

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Continued;

When shooting our first draft of the One shot assignment, the location was not ideal, resulting in echoed sound. As a result, we considered using an auxiliary microphone and shot the film in a different location. We also recognised the location as too bright and so used lamps to help set a tone that better suit our film.

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Conclusion:

Through applying the design process to Influence, Validate and Evaluate my work, I successfully Identified appropriate methods for structuring design work.

Through Feedback and Understanding my audience, I was able to define issues which arise from my relationship with audiences and users.

By recognising, identifying and analysing mistakes, I was able to use Iterative development to problem solve.


From the use of extensive research of existing forms, I was able to Demonstrate knowledge of exploration and enquiry through the development of innovative and novel ideas.

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Hopefully it wont come to this.

All my videos are on Youtube, user name indiechris08
Both my narratives are on Deviant Art - user name loveremains
Most my images are on photobucket username chrissya8

Thanks.