SIT ANIMATION YEAR 3

 I spent about 3 days working on scanning and working through our budget and receipts for reimbursement.  its a nightmare but it is almost completed! I hope to have it completed by Friday to do reimbursements.

  Our Cast and Crew screening went very well. We had around 75 people show up for it and no complications when screening the film. We screened our film in Upstage at SIT Downtown on Friday 18 th June and 6pm Our catering was amazing and was arranged by Bean Casey through Auction House. We paid $249 for an amazing spread of nibbles and I baked a two-flavour cake, which was chocolate and banana with a caramel filling, covered in a Italian Meringue Buttercream Icing. We had a very positive response from our audience which was amazing to see after all the hard work we put into it.

  CODE OF ETHICS     1.1 WHAT WE WANT FROM THIS PROJECT   This section outlines what we as a team want from this project.    ·          Enjoy the process/fun for us   ·          Make a high quality/good visual/strong design   ·          Love the characters/quality characters/developed characters   ·          Learn new skills     1.2 WHAT WE WANT TO ACHIEVE WITH THIS PROJECT   This section outlines what we as a team want to achieve with this project.   ·          Good message/ strong theme   ·          Something for our showreels   ·          Minimal dialogue   ·     ...

  CODE OF CONDUCT     1.1 ABSCENE WITHOUT NOTICE   Members who cannot attended class, meetings or do not have the capacity to work from home should notify either the Director  (Max Candy)  or the Producer  (Zeta-Rose Aldridge)  and the Executive Producers  (James Wilkinson and/or Traci Meek and/or Patrick Gillies)     1.4 INFORMATION MANAGEMENT   All information is to be saved into a minimum of three save spaces, e.g. OneDrive, portable hard-drives and computer     1.6 USE OF COMPANY PROPERTY   Use of company property, eg use of hard drives is only to be used for company information. For example, the productions files for portability. Under no circumstances is company property to be used for personal use.      1.7 PROTECTING INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY   Use of Fairy Bread...

  Fairy Bread Productions decided on the following Communication Tools   Discord ​   We chose to use Discord to create a Production Server for our communication over the duration of the project.  ​   We integrated the event bot Apollo to create our events so that team members would be alerted about them.  ​   It works well on a communication level, but less so on a project management level. Next time we would need to find a resource manager so that we are able to manage research resources as well and production resources more efficiently.

  Fairy Bread Production decided on the following Production Management Tools; ​ ​   Clockify ​ ​ Clockify was chosen as our time management tool. It is a free online software that we can access from anywhere.   It is a nice and clean software that is easy to get reports from and is user friendly.   There is a team function, which means everyone can see other people’s times which would have been very useful if we knew about this earlier.   I suggest that this is a good time management system that next year’s group project use.     Clickup   Clickup was chosen as our platform for our production schedule.   We used the free version, which gave us everything we needed, there are some downsides. Most of which stem from not being able to print or export out of this online programme. To do this, it requires payment. I would recommend that people use this for their personal project in second semester, as well as next...

  At the beginning the team was pretty into the project and wok was reasonably and evenly delegated. But as time went on we had a couple of people who essentially dropped from the project until the last minute. The writing team started out with about 6 people and as the script grew closer to the end, we decided to make it only 3 people. This helped to create and keep a more cohesive scrip for our storyboarding team. The storyboarding team consisted of 6 people who created in the end about 4 different versions of storyboard that the editing team then made into about 11 different versions. The animatic was worked on for around 5 weeks, which was longer than I had anticipated. The editing and audio team created our final animatic. This was completed around the halfway mark of our schedule. After the animatic, Edwin had to put the video into Premiere Pro and export each shot as an image sequence so that our animators could put the image sequence into Toon Boom Harmony to animate ...

  I was the Producer on this project. My contribution included doing all the paperwork, Eg schedules, role delegation and time keeping. I also worked as the main treasurer after Thomas had finished creating the Budget for Ugly Fish Dinner. I was in charge on invoices, recipe keeping and reimbursement. I also jumped into the storyboarding team and helped to create the storyboards/animatic from start to finish. I worked on Scene 1 for this. I was in the clean up team and cleaned up all the shots animated by Melissa and Max. this involved Clean up, Line art and colour. I worked on this until the last Thursday of the project. I spent a few late nights working on the project once we had 24hr access to campus. I also pulled an all nighter on Thursday 17 th June with Thomas, Max and Edwin to finish the project. After we finished the project at about 10am, I went home and worked on catering for the premiere where I finished making the cake. I didn’t sleep until about 10:30pm Frida...

  In total we spent around $1631.87 of our total budget on this project.  

 

  Marketing decided on the following social media outlets; Instagram Instagram works well in terms of engagement and ease of use. Our Instagram page was updated at a minimum of one post per week. In the end we had 33 posts. Our posts about an average of 13 likes per post. We had a total of 36 followers on Instagram Facebook Facebook was useful for the page but had less engagements when compared to Twitter and Instagram.   Our Facebook wasn’t updated nearly to the same degree as our Instagram and Twitter. I think this is due to our Facebook Admin have severe health problems for the majority of our project. We had a total of 46 followers on Facebook. Twitter Our Twitter account was updated with many posts per week. It was discovered that Twitter required more posts per week for a higher engagement. We had 88 tweets in total and a total of 31 followers. Company Website Our company website was not really utilised, the social media posts were posted on there b...

  The most effective distribution networks were via word of mouth, Instagram and Twitter. Because we couldn’t really dstribute much of our work due to rules and regulations of Film festivals we could only show snippets here and there of the project.

  Bean Casey was in charge of our promotion and marketing. Because we were planning on entering it into festivals, we couldn’t really promote it as much as we wanted. Bean and I designed the Film Poster.   Bean designed and printed out pamphlets and invites for the premiere which looked amazing. They also created a display window for the screening of our film.

  I created a Production Schedule at the start of the project. I has timed everything out to create the less amount of stress as possible. I had left room to be able to push parts of the scdule out if time needed it. What I didn’t expect was the fact that I would have to push out the schedule about 4 weeks from what I originally had. Our production schedule had to be pushed out multiple times. We spent at least ¾ of our production time on refining the script and the animatic. While this meant that we had a great script and animatic. It took away a lot of production time. With less production time we had to cram animating scenes into one week per scene. Due to the lack of response from our 3D team, we were held back when we needed that 3D camera shots to do a large amount of our 3D Animation. Edwin and Ian ended up having to push out those 3D camera shots for animators and then did the whole process again with directors edits when rendering.   In the last week of Produc...

  Trying to research the industry standard of professionalism was very trying. Honestly, I couldn’t really find any resources that were of any actual help for me.   But this is what I think the Industry Standard of Professionalism is. The Industry standard of professionalism could be broken down in a number of ways, but in short, it involves achieving high standards in all the work you do, both behind the scenes and what is actually seen. In order to get a job or project done to a high standard there are a number of skills and behaviours people are expected to follow. The most notable key skills are; ·          Competence ·          Integrity ·          Respect These three skills will get almost anywhere in terms of professionalism, To me they are they most important skills in a professional environment. While other skills such as knowledge ...

  In terms of industry research, I didn’t do a lot. Most of this is due to there not being many resources out there on my industry role as a producer. James also noted that the best resource was learning on hand experience. I tried my best to find what I could but in the end I don’t have a lot to show for it in my blogs. In my role as producer I pretty much winged it and decided that I would run this project in whatever way I wanted to

    Our Brand Name is Fairy Bread Productions. This name was voted on out of a large list of contenders. After choosing our name, a few team members created logos that the team then voted on the designs. The above design was the chosen one.   The colour palate is inspired by sprinkles, we then chose to use a more muted pastel colour palate rather than a saturated colour palate. The Logo was then later animated by myself using Toon Boom Harmony.

To do List Start on film festival submissions (eg finding out exactly what we need) STARTED Catch up with everyone (1v1) DONE Get the pipeline for 2D animation ready. HANDED OVER TO RACH End of holiday report Compile all reports together Work with Edwin on booking the photography room and equipment for the photogrammetry fish. DONE Get signed onto bank account Clean up Discord Go over production schedule DONE Talk to marketing Send Bean own work and stuff for her to post on twitter What I have done Producer research Worked with storyboarding team Fixed and cleaned up shot list Asset List Cleaned up Two forms of ID Birth Certificate Drivers License Official Letter with address

 This blog will briefly explain how I will be setting out my evaluation document.  TITLE PAGE CONTENTS PAGE PROPOSAL Proposal as a whole Evaluation of teams efforts PRE-PRODUCTION How and why we chose our online management platforms time management scheme PRODUCTION Evaluation of Production schedule Evaluation of production POST PRODUCTION Premiere marketing Evaluation of film Evaluation of Time Management COURSE PAPER AS A WHOLE

 I am unhappy with how much time has been wasted on creating edit after edit.  While it meant that we did end up with a great product, the time it took will create a lot of unneeded stress in the coming weeks We spent 3/4 of our production schedule on animatic and script when I had scheduled for a much shorter time. This means that our final animation will have to have details such as shadows cut from the final product for production time.  I am afraid that the final product will not look as polished as it could have been, had we stuck to the schedule that I had made.