Week 7

Monday

So far, I've come up with nearly three crow animations. Shannon and Charlotte seems to find the work promising. We seem to be coming up slow with the development due to work or stress related problems. I've already finished the film noir and horror genre moodboards to help see and design the layouts and characters faster. Team Bing Bong is doing good. Just need to focus and get the project totally finished.
Neil has finished at 11, but Les is still around for the afternoon. Charlotte, Shannon and I have made plans to finish the animatic within the week.

I'm doing my part in finishing the layouts with the crow animations and getting my essay in order.

My team is pretty useless today. So much work is hardly done and the presentation is next Thursday. I'm under so much pressure with the project and the essay its a wonder how I managed to survive the last three years of slow death.

Tuesday

I went to see my support worker at the atrium today. Nothing out of the ordinary.

I'm totally sick and exhausted. I'm scared out of my mind with this project. I just want this whole thing to be over with already so I can finally enjoy some freedom for a change. I've drawn up camera shots alternatives from the original storyboard and posted them on Facebook.

Wednesday

I went to Dyslexia Actions today in a rainy, foggy day. I never felt so miserable. The essay still needs some improvement. I have to find the quotes that connect with the research articles and find more books on how animation and media can influence the mind.

Thursday

I went to class today. I've adapted the cross-sketch style to my crow animations and it took forever to finish one out of 52 panels. I was given the tasks of finishing the final storyboard so my team can paint out the layouts watercolour style. I'm still finishing the last of the crow animations and tasked with finding girl references for Lucy.

Friday

After a whole day, I've finally finished constructing the final storyboards and posted them on Facebook. My teammates are happy that I've finished it for them. Doing two more crow animations and plan to do some layouts later.

Week 6

Monday

Neil is doing a presentation on the workings of 3D. Everyone is exhausted beyond measure. We all look like the walking dead. We are learning the works of 2D and 3D and how it will happen in the future. Neil gave us advice on how to improve our project. I need to sketch by my own style by developing and animating the crow.
Charlotte is going to improve on the layouts. Shannon wasn't in due to illness on Wednesday at 2, we are having a meeting about the project.

Tuesday

I've met up with my support worker today from Clear Links. We plan to meet again next week at 10 instead of 11. Tonight, I've written more on my essay. I've finished reading and writing notes on the journal articles mixed with my perspective that was suggested by my tutor. I'm up to nearly 3000 words now.

Wednesday

I went over to my support worker at Dyslexia Action to discuss my essay. She helped structure it properly and it looks really good. Charlotte and I went to see Neil about the work. He was already impressed with Shannon's sketches and helped improve them. He liked the ink splatter for the crow's flight path.

Thursday

Les came round to inspect everyone's work. He recommends a composition book called Ink to help improve our storyboards, including Dream Worlds. I've been working well on the crow animations and doing more for those scenes only.

Week 5

Monday

Team Bing Bong has shown Neil the prototype storyboard and he really seems to like it. He helped expand the scenes to explore the action. He gave us good advice on how to work on the visual development and how our scenes should be presented and researched.

Shannon helped me out with the character designs and I agreed to do more on the style when I come home. God, I'm bored. Mimi is still being a time waster and giving the team grief with her frequent absences and dominance.

I went to see Jane today. She helped me access the journal article websites on my essay. I Shall be back to meet her again at 3:20pm in three weeks time (Nov 9th)

Tuesday

I'm off to a good start on the project. I'm totally exhausted and had been working late again last night. I visited my support worker today and organized my next tasks. I found more broken down research on watercolours related to Quentin Blake. I've done loads of silhouette drawings of crows and finished researching them from documentaries and a book based on Edger Allen Poe called The Raven.

Wednesday

I've done and conducted and researched on ravens, crows, the differences between depression and grief. I've included the poem of the Raven belonging to Edger Allen Poe. I've also included insightful research on the visual development.

Quentin Blake - watercolor

Ink for the crow

Including psychedelic grey that connects to sadness.

Life Drawing can be used to sketch and animate the depressed girl. The National Gallery paintings that possess solid forms and bleak moods.

Thursday

I feel relaxed and awake for today's project. My research on visual development has been accurate enough to work on our scenes. Team Bing Bong has organized our storyboard panels with help from Les. Watercolour and ink.

I brought in books on storyboards and styles. I showed my character designs on the depressed girl and the crow. Good improvements. Sultan gave us a lecture on keeping true to the schedule deadline. We have to work until Dec 18th. Oh God. We still have to work even on the holidays.

Saturday

I have posted my research on Facebook.

Shannon's research is so accurate and well thought of, including the history and mythology of Celtic, Native American, Norse, Christian Belief and the film 'The Crow' and the behavioral of crows and ravens. Today, I've done dozens of crow sketches for animating through my research books. I plan on painting and animating tomorrow. I never felt so excited!

Sunday

I've spend the day doing 11 of the crow test animations on Flash. They looked really good. It's a start on the animatic. I've done more research on painting and animating. I've studied the works of Aaron Blaise, Tohaku Hasegawa and Karl Gnass.