Today was definitely a lot better than last week already, just for the simple reason that I was not alone in my class today! Ananda was back from India, and one of my best friends Jake is on the course too, and was at college today!
This morning I told Neil what I had done to prepare for today, and he seems really pleased with my progress on this project. To be honest I am too, I feel I've worked very hard this week, and I think my hard work has really paid off!
I spent this morning planning on how I am going to model my dragon character by sketching front and side views of the winning design of the dragon mascot chosen by the football club I'm designing this mascot for, to get me used to what shapes I will need to model. However, Neil did give me a few useful tips this morning. He told me that sketches can be as scruffy as I like them to, (I'm a bit of a perfectionist when drawing, so I'm usually quite scruffy at drawing at first, but then I neaten my drawing up a lot.) and advised me not to model my dragon using the box method I learned last year and to just model my dragon from observation. (I'll have to look it up or look back to my previous journal entries from last year to find out what it's really called, and how to do it again if I ever need to)
Tuesday, 1 October 2013
New Media Year 2 Week 3 Wednesday 25th September 2013
To prepare for this week, I have been super busy with my college projects. For Wednesday (25/09/13) I had to write a project proposal for a project I could work on for college after half term, and I had to make a PowerPoint presentation about this too. I did find this quite challenging, and I felt I ended up repeating myself quite a lot in my proposal, but I have had a few clear ideas of possible projects I could work on for 6 weeks after half term. However I felt that a lot of the projects ideas I've had would probably take me longer than 6 weeks, so I've decided to make some concept designs of vehicles for a kart racing game, model them in 3D, and if I have time, design a race track, which should be 6 weeks worth of work.
I've also made a good start on my current project for the Understanding the Media 2 module, which is to design and model a dragon mascot for a local football team for children and young adults with special needs which my dad sometimes volunteers to help at. So far I have gathered a lot of research of dragon characters and mascots, and also found out a lot about the football club I'm designing the mascot for.
I also spent a morning this week at the Stoke campus at Staffordshire University, to collect a couple of library books and also to do a bit of work quietly by myself. Dad kindly offered to take me, because he had a meeting near Stoke that morning.
On Wednesday I presented my project proposal for after half term to the class and Neil, which I felt was quite exhausting, as I do find presenting my work quite difficult, because I don't know how people will react. My mouth started going very dry whilst presenting my work and having to talk about it, and I did feel the presentation was a bit too long for me to talk about it, and I did feel that the presentation did repeat itself a bit. However, I did feel quite pleased with the feedback I was given from Neil. He seemed happy with the project I was given, but he just gave me some tips on how to improve my proposal. Even though I did have some references already, he would have liked me to have more references, and for me to explain more why I've chosen this project to work on. I did feel that this was very reasonable, and I feel I can definitely put this into my work. It was also reassuring to know that the other people in my class had similar feedback, although I did feel that their presentations had a lot more detail in them than mine. I probably felt this way because I probably do often compare myself and my work/confidence/the way I deal with things to others, which I know can be silly, but I feel that sometimes I can't help it. For next week I will have to work on my proposal based on my feedback from Neil, and send it to him for further feedback. He did ask us to start this during the lesson, but I felt I couldn't focus on this all that much, possibly due to how drained I felt from the presentation, so I decided to work on other things, such as my journal. However, just going slightly off topic, I have some new earphones, which I am really happy with. Not only are they Sonic the Hedgehog themed, but I can also hear what's going on around me, as well as my music, which doesn't normally happen with my earphones. Normally I wouldn't be able to hear anything else if I was listening to music.
On Wednesday afternoon I finished my concept dragon sketches, four in total, ready for feedback from the football club later that night. I also managed to see one of my best friends who was back from his apprenticeship in Norfolk this afternoon, before presenting the sketches to the football club. My dad kindly offered to take them on my behalf, and we thought of the idea of a scoring system to see which design the club liked the best. This was very well received, and I am pleased with their feedback, as it gives a much more honest response than just choosing a design myself. To be honest I was happy with all my designs, but I can understand why people voted for the most popular design, because I drew a football in that design, so it was a lot clearer what the design was for. I did find some of the feedback funny though (the good kind of funny). Someone said that one of my designs looked a bit like the dragon on the flag of Wales, which is fair enough, I see why they would say that, but I think that's because of the pose I drew that dragon in. Someone also said that another one of my designs looked like a Superhero, another said that it reminded him of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, because that dragon had a mask on. I also asked some of my friends and family which design they liked best, and posted my designs on Facebook to see if I would get any responses.
Speaking of social networking, I've started taking an interest in Pinterest again, which is basically a picture bank of pictures you like that you see on Pinterest and the internet in general. I've actually saved some of the images I've used for my research onto one of my "boards" on Pinterest, and the website also references where you got the pictures from too!
I've also made a good start on my current project for the Understanding the Media 2 module, which is to design and model a dragon mascot for a local football team for children and young adults with special needs which my dad sometimes volunteers to help at. So far I have gathered a lot of research of dragon characters and mascots, and also found out a lot about the football club I'm designing the mascot for.
I also spent a morning this week at the Stoke campus at Staffordshire University, to collect a couple of library books and also to do a bit of work quietly by myself. Dad kindly offered to take me, because he had a meeting near Stoke that morning.
On Wednesday I presented my project proposal for after half term to the class and Neil, which I felt was quite exhausting, as I do find presenting my work quite difficult, because I don't know how people will react. My mouth started going very dry whilst presenting my work and having to talk about it, and I did feel the presentation was a bit too long for me to talk about it, and I did feel that the presentation did repeat itself a bit. However, I did feel quite pleased with the feedback I was given from Neil. He seemed happy with the project I was given, but he just gave me some tips on how to improve my proposal. Even though I did have some references already, he would have liked me to have more references, and for me to explain more why I've chosen this project to work on. I did feel that this was very reasonable, and I feel I can definitely put this into my work. It was also reassuring to know that the other people in my class had similar feedback, although I did feel that their presentations had a lot more detail in them than mine. I probably felt this way because I probably do often compare myself and my work/confidence/the way I deal with things to others, which I know can be silly, but I feel that sometimes I can't help it. For next week I will have to work on my proposal based on my feedback from Neil, and send it to him for further feedback. He did ask us to start this during the lesson, but I felt I couldn't focus on this all that much, possibly due to how drained I felt from the presentation, so I decided to work on other things, such as my journal. However, just going slightly off topic, I have some new earphones, which I am really happy with. Not only are they Sonic the Hedgehog themed, but I can also hear what's going on around me, as well as my music, which doesn't normally happen with my earphones. Normally I wouldn't be able to hear anything else if I was listening to music.
On Wednesday afternoon I finished my concept dragon sketches, four in total, ready for feedback from the football club later that night. I also managed to see one of my best friends who was back from his apprenticeship in Norfolk this afternoon, before presenting the sketches to the football club. My dad kindly offered to take them on my behalf, and we thought of the idea of a scoring system to see which design the club liked the best. This was very well received, and I am pleased with their feedback, as it gives a much more honest response than just choosing a design myself. To be honest I was happy with all my designs, but I can understand why people voted for the most popular design, because I drew a football in that design, so it was a lot clearer what the design was for. I did find some of the feedback funny though (the good kind of funny). Someone said that one of my designs looked a bit like the dragon on the flag of Wales, which is fair enough, I see why they would say that, but I think that's because of the pose I drew that dragon in. Someone also said that another one of my designs looked like a Superhero, another said that it reminded him of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, because that dragon had a mask on. I also asked some of my friends and family which design they liked best, and posted my designs on Facebook to see if I would get any responses.
Speaking of social networking, I've started taking an interest in Pinterest again, which is basically a picture bank of pictures you like that you see on Pinterest and the internet in general. I've actually saved some of the images I've used for my research onto one of my "boards" on Pinterest, and the website also references where you got the pictures from too!
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