Team Organisation

Facebook group

To start off with we made a Facebook group, as this seemed like the easiest way to keep in touch with each other collectively. Here we wanted to post up any helpful tutorials, inspiration, or general information about the game development so it was all in one place.

Gant Chart/Calander

To keep on top of the many aspects of this module, we made a calender, and filled it out with the official deadlines and hand in dates, as well as our own team goals for completing each stage of our work and team meeting dates. On our calender we also chose to have pixel art on each, from illustrators/games/animators we admire. We printed off four copies of our calender, so we had one each, as well as a collective one for our workspace at Uni.

Workspace

We then printed off our calendar and claimed the back of the studio as our own workspace, sticking up our mood boards, spider diagrams, research so far and sticky notes for people to leave feedback on (which happened to be in the shape of a space invader). And obviously we needed a few team photos.

Joint email account 

We also got a joint email account, where we can post similar stuff to the Facebook page, however with this we also could have a Google Drive account so we could actually save the assets and work files in one place, as multiple people would be working on each thing, making file transfer a lot easier.

Ven Diagram

Once we had come together to discuss what we wanted to make our game about, and made a couple of mood boards, we decided the best way to combine all of our ideas was to make a ven diagram. We each had our own colour circle, where we wrote the top things we wanted to include in the game or top influences. This worked really well, and allowed us to have a good focus from the beginning. When we had these key references points down, we discussed other ideas, which are written on the right hand side, of combinations of everything together.

Ash - Black

Liam - Blue

Sacha (Me) - Red

Julia Pott - Your World Only Better - Class discussion

This is my public (only to skillshare users) contribution to the class so far on the class discussion board. I am really grateful to the users who gave me wonderful advice and suggestions, however I will not be sharing these on this blog, due to privacy reasons.

 

Two hundred and twenty four months later and this is who I am.

Updated Wed, Sep 11th 2013

Inspiration brainstorm:
I made a visual brainstorm from my previous ideas here http://pinterest.com/iambambiwillow/narratives-workshop/
This year I suffered with Agorophobia (fear to leave the house) as well as my continuing Insomnia. This gave me a lot of time to think over what is important in my life and what I dislike and why I was in such a state. During that time I developed a fascination with beekeeping and rekindled my childhood love of dinosaurs, as well as watching aquarium videos online every day. I realized that leaving the house wasn't that scary as all these things I love and admire are real and not just on the internet, and I could go and see them for myself. But the loneliness and isolation started again when I moved into a flat by myself.
Sometimes I put on a jumper that is too small to feel as if someone is hugging me if I get a bit sad, and I started eating some meat again after being a vegetarian for 4 years, so I could justify having a flump marshmallow without the guilt.
I am not sure what I want this narrative to be about, maybe having someone that is a rock in your life and how you sometimes end up being moss that clings on and they are still sturdy and lovely but you start to decay them without meaning to so you can survive and then when they move away you have to learn to grow by yourself.
Or how sad it is to see a small furry gerbil die in your home and the sadness in her little beady eyes as you scoop her out of the cage with a raspberry tub while her little furry sister sits and watches.
Or even leaving the house for the first time in four months to see the sun barely shining and the litter on the ground and wondering what the point was.
Or maybe I'll just stick to something light hearted like a panda dressed as a pin-up girl, who knows.

Diary update:
My parents met my boy friends parents for the first time, and I was more nervous than anyone. My legs were wobbling under the table the whole time afraid that something would happen and that would be it. I see myself as part of both families, and felt torn between them both, and where my loyalty lay. I don't know why I was so worried, everyone was fine and talked and laughed, and we all ate cake together and went home happy, like it was just normal. The next day my parents and sister had to go back home, which is three hours away from where I live, in my one bed flat by myself with nothing to keep me company other than a gerbil and my boyfriends hamster, which in turn had left to be babysat before I left to go and work in London for two weeks. That night I had to eat the remains of my birthday cake before it went stale. It wasn't much fun eating it alone. What once was a happy act surrounded by family and singing, had turned into a slightly gone off, slightly melancholy act, where I sat alone spoon feeding myself. 
I have a lot of smaller notes and little diary entries too but this seemed to stick.

Phase two, further research:
-Being left at home alone for the first time
-Research into cold countries (jumper wearing weather)
-Types of jumper
-Animals who's fur is made into jumpers
-Animals that live alone
-Loneliness
-Animals that die of loneliness
-Wonderlust

Questions to ask other people
What are you most self conscious of?
Do you remember the first time you were left at home alone by your parents?
What was it like moving away from home for the first time?
How do you cope with feeling lonely?
What is your favourite jumper? Describe it and where you got it.
What is the coldest you have ever felt?
What would you think of someone wearing a jumper on a hot summers day?
Have you ever been scared to go somewhere or leave somewhere before?
What would you do in four months if you couldn’t leave your house or see anybody?
Are you scared of rejection?
What is your first memory?

My CV

I usually update my CV every 6 months, if not more often if applying for jobs, so this task was relatively easy to complete as I had already got most of the written content.

With my past CV's I have usually included small illustrations around the edges, and made them more colourful as it reflects my work and personality more. However for this one I wanted it to be more professional whilst still reflecting my style. To do this I put more emphasis on what I have done in the past, filling a whole column on the right hand side, and split the left hand side into contact details, education, the software that I use and a small list of hobbies. I added colour by making only the titles black, and the actual written content in a dark blue. I also added red bars to divide the sections making it easier to read and digest fully.

It was really hard to not add a little illustration of a panda in the space left at the bottom left of the page, but overall I am proud of how professional it looks and how much I have achieved in the last few years.

Pop Up Show

I was unable to take part in the organization of the pop-up show or the event itself, as I had to take time off during that period of time.

I feel really upset that I was unable to have any involvement in it, as I have past experiences in event management when I worked for the University magazine 'NEST', as well volunteering at larger events.

The worst part is I feel I let my group down, as I was unable to produce the finished work for the show, so now I am looking into other ways to show our work once it has finally been properly finished.

My Showreel

Sacha Frampton - Showreel from sacha frampton on Vimeo.

Here is my first ever showreel, with little snippets of work I've created over the last three years of being in Leeds. There is so much I've missed out but I chose work that I felt showed my personality more, as well as the type of work I like to make. When editing it together, I made sure that it flowed well, ensuring that your eyes always follow the main action.

Julia Pott - Your World Only Better - Task Five

Task Fine - Choose one of your three themes to focus on ~ go with your gut

Out of my theme choices, I have decided to choose Agoraphobia as my main theme to focus on. This is because I suffer from this phobia and it has effected my life drastically. I have found it really difficult to find many films/animations/books which cover this subject matter, which made me feel even more isolated, and I feel by making this animation be based on this subject matter it will help raise awareness, be personal to me, and help others suffering with this phobia.