Planning and Editing

During the evening sessions on Monday I sent time on modifying my environment plan. Due to time away from college I've spent time catching to others in the whole group and my group. This environment plan continued through Tuesday morning and evening with a 1 hour session dedicated to sound planning. Both planning documents need completing mind, sections are complete with both plans but they need finalizing so I can begin actual production work. Due to time off I'll have to spend time at home and during the holidays to catch up with work.

Screen shoot above is a slide from my environment planning document.


As a little taster session today with a stand in tutor we looked at Windows Live Movie Maker. We was given a task to take video clips provided and to edit them into a correct order or 'continuity editing'. The task was quite hard I'd say as the order was quite debatable. After finding an order that suited me, lets say. I played about with the software, cutting clips that contained content that I didn't like. I also played with visual effects as well. Furthermore I modified time by speeding sections up and other down.

Marketing Promotions

For the project we, Red Hawk have to design promotional content or a promotional campaign to accompany our actually production. The promotional work will include the actual promoting of our work but also promote the development process and we'll hopefully have platforms to showcase our work on. For example, we hope to showcase our work on popular social network sites such as; Facebook, Twitter and YouTube. The idea is to promote our content  and what we're doing in different ways, Facebook and Twitter offer a wide range of promotional tools were as YouTube is very specific and will be a great asset for video content, which in turn is the main project anyway. The great advantage of using these platforms is that, they're free and extremely popular with people.

Visual content needs to be developed for these platforms. For example, we need banners and visual content of the product on sites. Creating visual concepts and promotional content on Photoshop and uploading this content for our promotional platforms will add that professionalism aspect but also a visual base for us to look at our development process.

This is an example of a banner I made on Photoshop. The actual banners will look similar to this when developed and published.

Team Meeting Announcements - Update

Agreed Trailer Aspects

Back Story

The story is based around Saltaire; a university has been developed in the park following a discovery of a stone holding power beyond mankind. The stone was named Deus Lapidem; Latin for God Stone. Saltaire was chosen by the High Council of Modern Science to host a university for research of the stone. The “Titus Memorial University of Molecular Science” was opened. Scientists tried to understand the stone, years of research lead to full contact interaction. Scientists moved on to other experiments to try and unlock more applications. Whilst this was taking place, wicked people wanted to use its power in such ways that would harm the very existence of humanity.

This is a brief description of the back story developed by Joseph Connell, a Red Hawk team member.

Content

Environment: Tomb, Memorial Centre, University, Park and Victoria Road.

Character: Main Protagonist, Lions, Stone Zombies, Spectre, Hawk (Intro and potential Easter egg).

Sound Direction

- Trailer Music; development process for the trailer theme hasn’t been fully discussed; work regarding this aspect will follow once actual concepts are discussed.

- Narration; Narration to be developed in the trailer through radio broadcast, hence Lewis Radio. The idea is to have the radio as a natural use of narrative, a potential monologue that discusses humanities survival.

- Sound Effects; wind, howls, footsteps, door creaks, lion roars, animal noises and zombie groans.

Other Aspects

Team Introduction; an animated 3D model of a Hawk will open are trailer. The Red Hawk represents are team.

Transitions; will divide the trailer into certain sections, cutting from environment to environment. The transitional screens will either hold quotes regarding the incident that start the downfall of humanity or what’s relevant to the game’s story.

Production & Marketing Plan

Job roles were allocated to team members during the team meetings. Although some members have more production work currently, these roles are subject to change in both production and marketing.

Production Job Roles

Ivo Anusic (Team Leader)

• Environment - Park
• 3D Characters / Objects - Lions & Main Protagonist
• Photoshop - Texturing
• Sound - Dubstep Track

Lewis Corcoran (Co-Leader)

• Environment - Park
• 3D Character / Objects -  Female Spectre, Radio Prop & Park Props
• Photoshop - Texturing
• Sound - Radio Narrative

Alex Forbes-Wake

• Environment - Memorial
• 3D Objects -  Memorial Props
• Photoshop - Texturing & Splash Screens
• Sound - Foley Artistry

Adam Thompson

• Environment - Tomb / Crypt
• 3D Objects -  Tomb / Crypt  Props
• Photoshop - Texturing
• Sound - Dubstep Track

Myself

• Environment - Village
• 3D Character / Objects - Titus Statue, Red Hawk, Uni & Park Props
• Photoshop - Texturing
• Sound - Foley Artistry
• Trailer Introduction

Joseph Connell

• Environment - University
• 3D Character - Stone Zombie
• Photoshop - Concept Art, Transitions & Texturing
• Sound - Dialogue and Story Narration

Marketing Job Roles

Ivo Anusic (Team Leader) – Promotional Adverts

Lewis Corcoran (Co-Leader) – Game Icons (Steam, App Store and Android Market)

Alex Forbes-Wake – Web Advertisement

Adam Thompson – A6 Flyers

Myself – Facebook, Twitter and YouTube Promotions

Joseph Connell – Promotional Posters