The Design Cycle Movie - Design Brief

For our next project, we had to plan what we would do for a short stop animation movie about the design cycle. This was our plan below.

Design Brief

1.     Write down:

·         What you are going to make:

We are going to make an animated short film about the design cycle. This movie will include a teacher who explains to her students about the design cycle.

·         Why you are going to make it:

We are going to make this film to show year 8 students the design cycle to teach them about the steps of designing so they can use the knowledge for the future.

·         For whom you are making it for:

We will be making the film for year 8 students who wish to learn about the steps of designing.

2.    Now combine all of this information into a one paragraph statement. Write your full brief in sentences below:

For our animated film of the design cycle, we will be expressing the steps by making a classroom of students who learn about the design cycle. The teacher will go through the design steps to teach the students the stages of design. This type of short film will have to be appealing to the viewers, year 8. This will be engaging to year 8 as the animation will be cute, simple but sends the message. The year 8 students will learn about the design cycle from this film.

Design Specification

The Design Specification is the most crucial element of the Investigate phase of the Design Cycle.
A good Design Specification should include information that you learned about the task/problem from your research.
It is a list of requirements that your design ideas must meet plus a list of constraints that you have. It is the check list that you need to use when you start to make your design ideas.

Write down:

1. The Audience- Who you are designing for?

We are designing this animation for year 8 students

2. Objective - What the successful design must do:

This animation should teach year 8 students about the design cycle

3. Production -
• What it should look like (Size/colours/etc)
• What it should be made from
• Tools needed to make the product
• Time needed to complete the product

4. Usage - How it will be used

Year 8 students will use this to make their projects in design

Life of Pi Animal Animation

Our first design project was all about the design cycle. The design cycle comprised of four steps, investigate, plan, create and evaluate. For my project, my partner and I looked into the design process for animating the animals from Life of Pi.

Life of Pi Animal Animation

Investigate

·         Understand animal behaviour

·         Look at animal physique

·         Make the visual effects alluring

·         Research what appeals to the audience

·         Gather information from the animal experts in order to make the animation seem realistic

Plan

·         Make sure all animals fit in the storyline and act like the actual animal would

·         Use appropriate animation software to make the animals realistic

·         Measure the animals in proportion to the scene and actors

·         Teach actor to react to the animals without actually seeing  them

Create

·         Generate the animals and make sure they fit in the scene

·         Use the animation software to make the animals come to life

·         Make the animals still look as realistic as possible even in 3D (using the Cameron Pace 3D Rig)

Evaluate

·         Animals look realistic and have a normal build

·         Animals behave and react in a normal way

·         See if appealing visual effects was successful

·         Media reviews

·         Popularity