Applied Animation- Planning and Time Management- Week 3

Initial sketches, Ghantt Chart and Team Planning- Week 3

To start getting into the project, I started sketching the main animals that are effected by Palm Oil. These are Rhinos, Elephants, Tigers and Orangutan's, but I didn't get a chance to draw the Orangutan's before meeting up with our group again. These sketches let me research more into the brutal way these animals are being wiped out. This made me feel more passionately towards the cause and why Palm Oil has been able to carry on without anyone knowing.

When meeting up with our group, we went through job roles and time management. Here we were deciding what needed to be done, then splitting up the roles equally and to what jobs people would prefer. Here there is a key I have made to show the different jobs as well as who is responsible for what. After discussing I have taken responsibility for the set designs, blueprints and animatic. This was becuase I enjoyed building the sets the most within the last stop motion. The girls also wanted to try building puppets so this worked out well with no arguments.

This was the first draft of a calendar Gantt chart. As there were gaps in the calendar, this meant we could get on with work without struggle as we know what needs doing and when for. Even though this was roughly done, it was incredibly useful to keep up with what needed to be completed and where we needed to be. As one of our members has never done a stop motion, some of the results were a bit unrealistic, like setting the production time to two weeks which most likely will not be enough time to do the puppets, sets and backgrounds. Yet I was a learning curve as she now knows it takes more time than this to create physical objects but we will do our best to keep up with the plan and not get behind.

After meeting up again. This was the result of putting time into the Gantt chart. This is done to make sure we are done in time with a lot of time left over to get editing done and completed as soon as possible. The dates at the top, leave a lot of time to do the sections so we can make sure to keep up with production after pre-production is done. This gives us clear structure to follow and understand. The colour coding still comes in handy as we can clearly see where we are and what we need to complete. Overall this looks much more professional than the other yet both have proved useful.

After this week, it has been really useful to know where we all stand and to know which tasks need to be done fairly soon and which can be extended. This week sets us up for the rest of the module so we can plan and get all of the pre-production done.