Calendar| Engineering | Programming | Design/Photography | Animation | Audio/Video | Summative

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Overview

Your "Summative Project" is intended to give you an opportunity to display many of the skills you've acquired over the semester and thus is individual work. Generally each option touches on 3 of the 5 units we've done in the course. Option (E) MAY have a production team of up to 2 individuals but each individual must create their own storyboards and edit their own final products. That is to say, they can share the filming responsibilities and the clips that result from it. Aside from that, all work is to be done as independently as possible with little help delivered. 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:

• Computer Engineering

• The Design Process

• Programming

• Graphic design and/or photography

• Animation

• Video planning and production

• 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) ENGINEERING FOCUS

Your task is to Plan and Produce the plans for a PC business (like Dell/HP/Acer)

You will make/develop:

• A computer assembled from scratch - we can supply the components of a PC, but you will need to research assembly and installation of the OS as well as any additional software.

• In an Excel or Google Sheet, research and list the computer parts you will be using in your PC as well as their historical pricing when they were sold new. Include a labour cost for the assembly (the number of hours spent making the computer as well as installing the operating system * $15/h). On the same sheet compare your computer's final price compared to that of pre-assembled PC's that were comparable at the time for Dell, HP, or Acer (you're pricing out how much to charge a client to assemble the computer)

• Develop an ad campaign for the PC business (this may be graphic design/photography/animation or video - whichever suits your strengths)

Additionally you will develop a Google Site that includes:

• a splash page that people encounter when they access the site done using your knowledge of graphic design/photography

• an assembly page that chronicles the assembly of the computer in a series of photos as well as written instructions for installation of the OS and other software as a guide to new customers

• a page with the costing of your product

• an advertisement page that includes an overview of your product that is either done as graphic design or animation or audio/video

When done, turn in:

• the published google site link

• the logsheet/reflection

B) COMPUTER GAME

Your task is to Plan and Produce a video game

You will make/develop:

• A computer game written in python that uses branching logic, includes variables, isn't a wall-of-text

• Develop box art for the game using your knowledge of graphic design/photography (or alternatively a video gameplay trailer)

When done, turn in:

• The game code: this will be submitted from the repl.it site as a shared link in google classroom

• The box art will be submitted google classroom as a psd or video/ animation as an mp4 (and storyboard if it's video)

• The logsheet/reflection

C) AD CAMPAIGN FOR A REAL PRODUCT - GRAPHIC DESIGN

Your task is to Plan and Produce an ad-campaign for a REAL product

You will plan and produce a professional-looking poster promoting a real product. In addition, you are going to produce a short instagram-style video that will go hand-in-hand with your ad. The promotional material will be shot with cameras, and you will use one (or more) of the images in a 11x17" Photoshop poster. The instagram-style video can be live and/or animated. You are making:

• Graphic design/photography

  • The majority of the ad campaign (poster)

• Animation and/or video

  • A short 10-15s ad for web

When done, turn in:

• the poster (PSD file)

• the short 'instagram' video (done either as animation or live-action video as exported as an MP4) + storyboard

• the logsheet/reflection

D) AD CAMPAIGN FOR A REAL PRODUCT - ANIMATION

Your task is to Plan and Produce an ad-campaign for a REAL product

You must select ideas and storyboard your plan as well as design a 30s video promoting the product and design the content to go in your ad. Your final project will be the promotional material shot with cameras. Content will include:

• 30s Animation done in Animate

• Graphic design and/or photography

  • can be inserted into the animation or in the final premiere editing

• Video

  • once the animation is done you will include titles, transitions and audio and export the final product as an mp4

When done, turn in:

• the FLA (Animate) editing file + storyboard

• an exported mp4 from premiere

• the logsheet/reflection

E) AD CAMPAIGN FOR A REAL PRODUCT - VIDEO

Your task is to Plan and Produce an ad-campaign for a REAL product

You may work in a production team of MAXIMUM 2 - this footage can be shared. Otherwise the project is individual (i.e. each person has to submit a storyboard, edit their own final product, complete a reflection)

You must select ideas and storyboard your plan as well as design a 30s video for the product. The final product will include graphics which can be done in Photoshop, or you can use Essential Graphics within premiere to satisfy this requirement instead. It will also include animation, which can be made in Animate, but can instead be done using keyframes in Premiere if you prefer. Content will include:

• Graphic design/photography

  • insertion of designed backgrounds or shot backgrounds into the video

• Animation

  • composited elements for the video (moving titles/product-names/logos)

• Video

  • the majority of the visual product

When done, turn in:

• the FLA (Animate) editing file (if animation was done separately)

• an exported mp4 from premiere + storyboard

• the logsheet/reflection

At the end of post-production, no matter which option you took, you MUST create a google doc for submission that has the following information:

1. How you'd change what you did if you had to do it again

2. Include with it something like this logsheet with what you did and roughly how long it took