Here's what we've been up to, week by week.
Weekly Updates.
#1
Week One
We have created a priliminary schedule for the rest of the project that includes due dates for certain ascpects of the project.
We also met and discussed the scope of the project with our sponsor and set the overall direction of the way things will be done.
#2
Week Two
We have started research for our project and found similar studies that we will be basing our own studies on.
Also we presented our project for approval and was given the go ahead with it. Then we discussed our future timeline with our sponsor. Over the next week we will be working on the script for the video.
#3
Week Three
Drafted the first vesion of the script on the Light Reaction of Photosynthesis and submitted it to our sponsor for it's initial review.
We are currently working on finalizing our research methodology as well as who our test subject will be for our evaluation. This testing process will be finalized by the beginning of next week.
#4
Week Four
This week we wrapped up our research methodology. With this research concluded we moved to composing our milestone 1. In this milestone we wrote about the current state of our project.
We also went through our second draft of our script. Revisions still have to be made.
Also, our first concept art has been created.
#5
Week Five
This week we revised our script to a final version. More concepts have been designed. Going into the weekend we will be creating stroyboards for our video.
#6
Week Six
This week we started work on preliminary storyboards. We all split up parts of the script and each created storyboards for our assigned parts. After, we gave all our parts to our pre-production specialist to alter into one cohesive storyboard.
We also complete our Milestone 2 paper. We dived more into our research methodology and created surveys and quizzes for our testing process.
Next week we head into Spring Break. During that time our sponsor will be getting a voiceover recording from our script to use for our animation.
#7
Week Seven
This week we continued to make more assets for the animation. We were also provided the voiceover for the animation from our sponsor.
The main focus this week has really been perfecting our emerging process for the animation.
As we move into the weekend we'll continue to make assests and start on a rough animatic for timing purposes.
#8
Week Eight
This week we continued to make more assets for the animation.
With the assets we did have we made a short animatic of the first minute of the animation.
We also finalized our decision of our emerging process.
#9
Week Nine
This week was spent animating and compositing our product.
We broke up the animation into four parts and continued woking on bringing those parts into a cohesive final product. This is the current state and version of our composited product.
We plan to continue animating and fine tuning this version of the video.
#10
Week Ten
This week we were able to test our product as it was with a few classes of high school AP biology students. We quizzed them on the material presented, and gave a survey to help us improve the video even more.
The rest of the week was spent finalizing the product and fixing any errors. This is the updated video we are working on, and we will continue to finalize it as we work on our final presentation for the upcoming week.