Yoko_Plan

//** PLAN**//

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//Introduction:// The second stage of the Technology Design Cycle is Plan. During this stage, I drew my storyboard for the e-card, which you can see below.

//ESLR's:// I think I was a Critical Thinker by building meaning and understanding using prior knowledge and new information. I was able to reach this ESLR by drawing my storyboard, using the knowledge I have and learned during this project.

This is my storyboard:

//Reflection:// During this next step of the technology design cycle, which is the planning, I had drawn and colored a storyboard of my e-card, using the Flash Animation Plan sheet. I had described the overall description of what will happen in each key frame, what will happen in each layers with some drawings, and I also included which type of animation I will use for each layer, such as motion tween, shape tween, rotation, and color change. Although I had included all of these animation types, I’m planning to use mostly the motion tween, because almost everything in my e-card will be in motion, and I’m planning to use the rotation the least, because I’m not using a lot of it in my e-card. Actually, I didn’t thought of neither using nor including the rotation, because I didn’t have any plans of rotating something. However, when I noticed hat I have to include all of these, I thought of rotating some objects instead of using other types of animations.

During the animation, my character (the bunny) will move its body and grabs one of the balloons floating, wandering what they are for, and the balloons will change their color and shape from red to pink, and from round-shaped to heart-shaped. Then, other two more characters (two more bunnies) pop out, holding presents, and the text (the message of saying ‘Happy Birthday’) comes up. Also, some hearts come up, rotating from right to the left, and from left to the right. I’m going to use thought bubbles to express that my character is thinking of something. I think that my e-card will look perfect when it’s finished with all these animations, because I had included all types of animations and I think my story represents a good story in the way it flows.

This e-card demonstrates an excellent animation design, because my e-card includes a motion tween, shape tween, rotation, and color change in order to make it. I think that you need all of these in order to say that it’s an excellent animation design. Even though most of the examples of the e-cards that I had researched on don’t have all of these animation types, I though they were perfect. However, I would say that if they included all of these types of animation, they would look better, meaning that more audience will be interested in them.

As I said earlier, I’m planning to crate this animation in Flash by using the motion tween, shape tween, rotation, and the color-changing tools/tweens. I will use the motion tween to make my characters, the objects, and the text move, I will use the shape tween to make my objects change shape, use rotation to rotate some objects, and use the color-changing tool to change the color of some objects in my e-card. I think that I know everything I need to turn my storyboard into a Flash animation. However, I think that I’m not sure of how to make my character turn its body and move its arms, so I have to ask for some help from Ms. Coffino and some of my friends, who know how to do that in order to make my e-card. I also want to know how to make the background change its color, so I will ask how to do that from them, too.

Overall, I would say that I’m ready to create my e-card, and I can’t wait to do it. Although I didn’t include all of the things I have brainstormed and I also had changed some of the things in my mind map in order to make this storyboard, I think that my e-card will still look great.