INFORMATION DESIGN - FINAL PROJECT


07.01.20 - 21.02.29 (Week 1 - Week 7)
Piyaphon Inthavong (0337589)
Information Design
Final Project


INSTRUCTIONS


LECTURES

Week 1:
January 7th, 2020

On the first day of class, Mr. Shamsul brief everyone through the final project and its process starting from the first week until the end.



Week 2:
January 14th, 2020

Today we were introduced to creating animation using Adobe After Effects. We started with simple tasks like the orientated-path animation where we animate objects and move it along the paths we created with the pen tool (or other path creating tools).


First trial on ball bouncing animation.


Second trial on ball bouncing animation.

The next exercise is to animate a chart comparing two different things together.


Gender population chart animation.

PROJECT 1

Week 1: Research & Narrative
January 7th, 2020

As the first day of the class, we were grouped to work together for the duration of this module and the final video infographic project. My group members consists of:

- Yip
- Rahaf
- Zain
- Ryan
- Joe (myself)

We discussed together about our given topic "Natural disasters" during the first session of the class. The discussion ideas were:

- The unfortunate incident in Australia
- The heroes of natural disasters
- The Pompeii

Throughout our discussions with Mr. Shamsul, he had advised us not to choose topic that is common among people, instead opt for something people can't think of. The few hours of discussion had then finally led to the final title "Krakatoa" which was very unique among all of our previous ideas. We spent the rest of the class doing research and finding facts about the Krakatoa incidents.

January 10th, 2020

Before writing the scripts, we start collecting information of the Krakatoa incidents by reading a few articles, and watching some documentary. The topic of Krakatoa was not too well known on the Internet, and so there were not too much in-depth details about it.




We gathered together to write our script and through a few check with the lecturer, we came up with the following narrative for our final video.




Week 2: Mood board

January 17th, 2020

We continued through the project and presented the following slides as the mood board of the final video:



Mood board on Krakatoa infographic video / animation.

Week 3: 
January 21st, 2020

This week involves mostly of storyboard planning and sketching. We were given time to work things out after the long lecture section on Adobe After Effects.


Week 4: Storyboard & Animatics
January 28th, 2020

Today, I worked together with Zain on the storyboard and finalized it as shown below:

Storyboard page 1

Storyboard page 2

Storyboard page 3


January 31st, 2020

We finished the final animatics by today and presented the following:



Week 5: 
January 6th, 2020

There were no class today due to the Intercultural Design module trip.


Week 6:
January 6th, 2020

There were many parts in the animatics that Mr. Shamsul think needs to be worked on, and so we dedicated the day to fix and improve the graphics of some of the scenes. The following are some of the improved scenes:

Graphics improvement on scene 19-20
Graphics improvement on scene 21.



Graphics improvement on scene 22.

Week 7:
January 6th, 2020

There were no classes today, so we carried on with our projects.


Week 8:
January 6th, 2020

Once the graphics and animation was done, we handed the file for Ryan to handle the sound effects, and here's the following outcome of the infographic animation.




Final animation on Krakatoa.

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