Storytelling Reflection

New Team Logo: (Static)

My Board for Storytelling:

Overall, how do you feel the presentation went?

Honestly I felt gald that the presentation was done and in more specific detail I believe that the presentation went well. The presentation was done fairly as we had respect and let everyone have thier turn and if they were stuck we would help each other out. Overall, it went well everyone spoke their part, they had a calm demeanour. Speaking in public is a frightful task at first but when I was speaking I knewI was discomforted but the section I was covering I was passionate about so that helped me overcome any stage fright.

How long did your team take?

Our team took 27 mins to speak. It was long but all the team members were there. All five of us took our time to speak.

Was everyone prepared?

Not really, as some team members did struggle to research for what they chose to do. To help them for when it was their turn to speak the team wrote notes down to help them if they got stuck. Which I noticed about every team had some guide notes. For myself I lost my train of thought for a few seconds but I recovered by looking at some notes which I wrote down. Overall I am going to say no we weren't prepared either the prospect in speaking in front of people or just down to a lame ability of memory.

How did your audience react - were they positive, encouraged or distracting? - Personal Input.

For the team, the audience was fine no one was distracting as the audience was paying attention. Honestly, some looked bored or tired which is a natural reaction for when you are sitting in a really warm room. The feedback the team recieved from the audience was positive as no one complained or moaned as most was just quiet ad posibly wanted to get this done. For when I spoke most were interested and sielnt at the same time. For my feedback, I recieved a few questions which I answered. There were some audience members which were distracting as they were on there computers. Overall, they were a positive audience.

How did you do?

I think my part went well as I was the very last speaker so there wasn't any pressure on me. I was focused on what I spoke about. I think I screwed up a bit by going off track for a few seconds but I recovered and the audience were sympathetic so I didn't feel intimidated. I took my time and I'm glad I did. I sometimes get nervous in front of a crowd but most of the audience members were my friends so it was easier to speak. I like to think that I was prepaered as I do have knowledge on my chose subject but the concept of stage fright killed off some of that knowledge. In any future cases I will try and be more prepared by revising notes frequently so I know what I'm talking about.

What did you learn?

I learnt some basic subject knowledge about what most people covered. I learnt that storytelling is important as most have them have a hidden meaning and some philisophical knowledge. Also stories have been told since the dawn of man and have been adapted to be told in different ways such as books, word of mouth or been displayed on a wall or pottery. I am personally interested in storytelling so this was an exciting subject to cover and also I do have some basic knowledge on what most people covered so I asked some questions. I was a good audience member.

Screenshot for the environment

For our main enviroment in our game trialer we have decided to go for a winter theme as you can see that the gorund is covered in snow. We won't be doing any snow particle effects as they are too awkward to work with and they don't really work well. Anyway in this screenshot you can see that the view is between foliage that looks off into the distance where you can see the pyramid (I will do some work on it in the future) and the ice stairs.


And just above this is a screenshot to see how the turbosmooth modifier worked, I would say it has worked out quite well. God Bless Turbosmooth.

Constraints

(Questions for team meeting)

What problems will there be for me: Since I am team leader I will face some amount of stress and pressure such as team members not making an appearnce, arguing amongst ourselves and also not meeting deadlines. The casual problems any leader will have.

How will the team work together: In our team we're all friends and we all get along with each other. I only have one problem some team members are known foe their lack of abscence and this causing unnecessary stress.

Appointment of roles:

Finance:

How much would a project like this cost to produce:

Legal Issues:
Copyright
IP's
Patents

Deadlines:

Resources: The resources we have available at college is the software programs such as Photoshop and StudioMax 2008 + 2010.

Faults:

Unit 4 Reflection

For the final major project we were designated into teams to produce a game trialer, this is a curios operation as I really haven't worked in a team before (on such a project). I was appointed team leader and so far everything has been going well.

For my individual aspects I my skills in communication have grown as I am working with friends as we all trust each other and in our desicions. My team are determined for what they need to do and since we all know each other well there is no arguments amongst us but there are reapeated abscences which do cause stress for everyone (especially me). I can my manage my time I spend on indivdual parts of the course and as well as managing and the other team members by oftenly given them assistance and reminders for what needs to be done.

Every few weeks we have team interviews where we can gather and share ideas for future concepts we record these on word documents and they are securley saved on each team members hard drive or USB.

For our first assignment we were tasked to create a team name and logo, we had a go at what name we should have. We decide to have the name Visual Flare as this can help represent on what we are looking for, the flare as it is a bright colour often the light in the darkness and for the visual our area of work is involved in a visual manner so the name fitted perfectly. After the name we decided to individually create a logo each the majority complied but some did not. This was not a surprise as this was the consequence of repeated abscences and no interest shown. Anyway the logo was decided it was Dom's logo in what the design was an effective visual image in which there are 3D smoke effects and the title font was vibrant.

The team meetings we had did have a impact in our work as we were appointed different roles. The workload for each member shifted as we all agreed that those who had repeated abscences were appointed with the easier tasks and those who were recognised for their hard work were appointed the harder tasks.