TGJ2O_summative_project

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=Overview=

Your "Summative Project" is intended to give you an opportunity to **display ALL the skills you've acquired over the semester** and thus is individual work unless you're working on option (A). Option A MAY have a production team of up to 3 individuals all with CLEARLY DEFINED RESPONSIBILITIES. All work is to be done independently in an original Communications Technology product. Think of it as a product-driven "final exam" that reviews all aspects of the course, but is open book, and lasts about three weeks instead of a couple of hours. Don't recycle old work - create ALL NEW components that build what you've learned to date. Your summative project should clearly demonstrate your skill in:
 * The Design Process
 * Photoshop
 * Typographic Design & the Design Principles
 * 3D Modeling & Animation
 * Video Production, Including
 * STORYBOARDING
 * SOUND
 * TITLING
 * This project is should exhibit the full range and depth of skills you've acquired from the course
 * This project MUST be feasible and completed given the time constraints and limited resources of the lab

Summative Options

 * A) MOVIE TRAILER (video production with minor graphic-design/animation)**

__Your task is to **Plan**, **Produce** and **Edit** a movie trailer for an existing movie__

You must take a trailer to a movie that exists already. You must select ideas from that film, take stills, shoot footage and record audio so that your trailer is a believable facsimile of what the trailer for that film MIGHT look like. Your final project should be exactly 30 seconds long and include graphics made in Photoshop, animation made in Blender or Flash (think intro credits, or bumpers or logos) and live video shot in or around the classroom. Production teams shall include no more than 3 students. Suggested content //__**could**__// include: If you are working in a production team all members MUST create a text document and submit it that has the following information:
 * Photoshop
 * Titles, Illustrations, Prepared digital photos
 * Blender/Stop Motion/Flash
 * A short animated Production Logo or bumper that goes into the film or on the film)
 * Audacity
 * Recorded and edited sound
 * Video
 * Original footage shot on site, in or around the classroom
 * 1) Who submitted the video and who else was in your group;
 * 2) A retrospective exact breakdown of who did what major tasks (if it differs from the task list done in the pitch) - and how you'd change it if you had to film it again;
 * 3) Something like this logsheet [[file:jmcintyre/Log Sheet 1.doc|Log Sheet 1.doc]] with exactly who did what and over what period of time


 * B) ANIMATION (animation with minor graphic-design/video production)**

__Your task is to **Plan**, **Produce** and **Edit** a short animated film__

You are to create a 3 minute long animated 'short'. This can be done singly or in groups (no more than 2). This is a complete production that includes a storyboarded idea as well as:
 * Photoshop
 * Titles, Illustrations, digital photos
 * Blender
 * the animation
 * Audacity
 * Recorded and edited sound
 * Video
 * exported animated content combined with titles and video are assembled in a video editor

Once the animation portion is complete, the project is to be brought into Premiere and you are to include all relevant voiceover/soundtrack events and render the movie as such afterwards.


 * C) Ad Campaign (photography with minor animation/video production)**

__Your task is to **Plan** and **Produce** an ad-campaign for a product__

You must make an ad campaign for a product that DOES NOT EXIST. You must select ideas, stage a short video promoting the product and shoot content to go in your ad. Your final project will be the promotional material shot with cameras, and presented as a 11x17" Photoshop (poster), a short 15s instagram-style video (that includes both dSLR filming as well as animation). This will be done singly. Suggested content could include:
 * Photoshop/digital photography
 * The majority of the ad campaign (poster)
 * Blender/Flash
 * A short 15s ad for TV
 * Audacity
 * Recorded and edited sound for the TV spot
 * Video
 * Original footage shot on site, in or around the classroom for the TV spot


 * REQUIRED FOR SUBMISSION**
 * Pre-Production
 * In a shared document
 * Identify the "Target Audience"
 * Define the final product, it's format and length
 * Define the concept and specific content
 * Storyboard your shots, and Script your dialogue
 * Assign timelines, and identify and book required resources
 * Production
 * Book equipment with your instructor - be prepared for its use in advance
 * Return equipment promptly - other students will need it
 * Post-Production
 * Stay with your assigned computer for the duration of the project
 * Edit your work on the d: drive, and **keep daily backups of your work**