What do I have to do

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What do I haveto do?

• OCR Unit 20
• Animation

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There are 4 Sections to this unit(or Assessment
Objectives)

• AO1 Review 2 existing animations
• AO2 Design an animation with storyboard
• AO3 Create an animation (30 sec for
  merit/dist, 15 sec for pass)
• AO4 Test your animation

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Things you have to hand in
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Where is all the stuff?

• Depts
• \STUDENTS
• \Upper Depts
• \I-C-T (students)
• \ OCR National
• \All Saints OCR Unit 20

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AO1 Review

• You have to review two existing clips.
• Use the U20 AO1 All Saints GIF Review forms 1
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• There is a folder animated-giftslinks to
  review with some that you can use.
• You must fill in the improvements section for a
  merit/distinction.

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AO1 Review U20 AO1 All Saints GIF Review Form
Blue text HINTS. Delete the blue text when
finished before you print! Need to do 2 reviews!
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AO1 Review - Distinction Criteria
Thorough you explain WHY.
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AO2 Design

• The WORKSHEET tells you what to do you must
  complete both
• Animation planning sheet (saying purpose
  audience)
• Storyboard (1-10 sheet)
• You do not have to draw every frame (could have
  50!)
• There is an xtn st/brd 11-20
• The glossary explains meanings worth reading.

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AO2 Design Animation Planning Sheet

• You MUST complete this give thorough
  descriptions for a distinction!

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AO2 Design - Storyboard

• Your storyboard MUST show
• o content of the animation
• o text
• o images
• o sound
• o video
• o timing
• o transitions
• o effects
• (ie fill in boxes at bottom of form)

Can be hand drawn do not use clips from final
animation.
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AO2 Design - Distinction Criteria
Elements text, images, sound, video, timing,
transitions, effects. Storyboard detailed
enough to cover key points, does not need to
cover planning of every frame.
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AO3 Create

• Load the WORKSHEET it has the exam board
  Pizzalicious scenario for an animation.
• Complete the evidence_sheet to say how you did
  certain things.
• Pass 15 sec Mer/Dist 30 sec
• Use Fireworks to produce it.

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AO3 Create Evidence sheet
Complete the evidence sheet boxes put
screenshots in the second box for each. Frame
Rates explain about timing. Looping explain
that your animation keeps looping indefinitely
show screenshot from fireworks
highlight. Publish Settings explain how you
exported (Export Wizard etc)
See separate PowerPoint on how to EXPORT your
animation as animated.GIF
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AO3 Create - Distinction Criteria
Basic Graphic Techniques drawing/editing
shapes, use of colour, lines, text, importing
objects, cutting/copying/pasting,
tweening/frame-by-frame, frame rates, motion
guides, looping. Optimised considered
use on the web, ie size, colours need to
annotate/comment on this somewhere.
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AO4 Test

• Load the WORKSHEET it has simple instructions.
• Load the Test the Animation form just fill it
  in (easy!)
• Tests Pass 4, Merit 5, Dist 6
• You need to spot a few improvements and say how
  you did them at least two.

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AO4 Test sheet
You need to have two ticks in Any action
required? column. Then complete the What I
changed column.
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AO4 Test - Distinction Criteria

• Test plan could include
• eg suitable content,
• correct message conveyed,
• suitable frame rate,
• length of time,
• loops correctly,
• suitable file format etc

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OCR Unit 20 - Pizzalicious Scenario

• Pizza-licious is a chain of pizza restaurants,
  each with a takeaway and delivery service.
  Pizza-licious currently has 32 stores spread
  across the UK. It has an annual turnover in
  excess of 1 million. The company likes to think
  that it is technologically competent.
• The company is about to launch an online ordering
  service. This will allow customers to access the
  Pizza-licious website and place their order
  online. The order will then be passed to the
  nearest store and the order will be guaranteed to
  be delivered by one of the companys motorbike
  agents within 30 minutes. If the wait is over 30
  minutes, the customer will get a voucher for a
  free online order next time.
• To advertise this new service, Pizza-licious
  would like an animation that it can use on its
  own website and on other websites as an advert
  that will draw customers in. They havent
  specified a size for the animation that is for
  you to choose!

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Pizzalicious Summary

• They kind of things you might include in your
  animation are
• Pictures of the Pizza Restaurant/Takeaway
• Examples of its products/premises
• Prices
• Special Offers
• Opening Times
• Images from the web
• Phone number and website address
• Mention free pizza if more than 30 mins!
• The animation should last at least 30 secs for a
  distinction/merit (15 secs for a pass).

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Saving your Animation IMPORTANT!

• You need to save your animation as a png
  (Fireworks file) when you are working on it,
  always save as png even if exporting, so you
  can work on it again later.
• When finished it needs to be exported as an
  animated gif so it can be used on the web and in
  powerpoints. You need to think about size/colour
  etc if it is to be used on the web.
• See the separate powerpoint on Exporting. When
  saved test!