This week in animation context we began looking at past work such as the Gibbs reflective cycle but to begin we did an activity called mental jogging an activity that was designed to exercise our brain, thinking of responses to a certain subject as many as we could think of to help the subject ours was how can you drive along and not spill your coffee. Whilst a bit of an odd exercise it was actually very enjoyable an activity and it was rather amusing coming up with possible solutions. The result was that it left our brains to think for our activity of looking at the Gibbs reflective cycle and discussing some animation advice one of which was you don't make an animation until you make the animation, this seemed an odd piece of advice if anything it sounded like a riddle.
However one piece of advice that suck is was that if you don't work to a script or a plan you would just be making up the story as you go along which would lead to disaster. I could understand that as there were times not very often when I jump into one of my stories without a script and just make it up as I go along, but I've since then worked to a script in many of my stories and even work from scene idea sketches to perfect the script. The main topic of this session was Reflection, which meant reflecting back on our work and learn past lessons to help my current project. In this course it wasn't just about our knowledge of animation but how we animate practically.
One example of reflection was the Gibbs reflective cycle and in our exercise we could see how it worked and the very cycle itself and its description. In this we needed to look at a piece of work of someone who used a similar cycle. The steps of the cycle were as follows.
-Description: What happened
-Feelings: What were you feeling or thinking
-Evaluation: What was good/Bad about the situation
-Analysis-What sense can you make of the situation
-Conclusion: What else could you have done
-Action Plan:If the situation arose again what could you do
This cycle could be of interesting use when writing annotations in my mind and the way the writer described her conflict on her teaching job and the way she showed it I could see she'd taken the argument and looked through what she could've done differently. The lesson from this was that it was often best to sleep on the argument its best to confront it. This was something I could live by as there are times I have a reputation for sleeping on difficult decisions to make rather than confront them head on.
By lessons end I had taken in a lot of information and advice and one activity that we were told to do was watch Ferris Bulers day off something that I was familiar with even if I did see references on E4's the Goldbergs. I was watching clips of the film which proved very inspiring and even slightly funny too.
However one piece of advice that suck is was that if you don't work to a script or a plan you would just be making up the story as you go along which would lead to disaster. I could understand that as there were times not very often when I jump into one of my stories without a script and just make it up as I go along, but I've since then worked to a script in many of my stories and even work from scene idea sketches to perfect the script. The main topic of this session was Reflection, which meant reflecting back on our work and learn past lessons to help my current project. In this course it wasn't just about our knowledge of animation but how we animate practically.
One example of reflection was the Gibbs reflective cycle and in our exercise we could see how it worked and the very cycle itself and its description. In this we needed to look at a piece of work of someone who used a similar cycle. The steps of the cycle were as follows.
-Description: What happened
-Feelings: What were you feeling or thinking
-Evaluation: What was good/Bad about the situation
-Analysis-What sense can you make of the situation
-Conclusion: What else could you have done
-Action Plan:If the situation arose again what could you do
This cycle could be of interesting use when writing annotations in my mind and the way the writer described her conflict on her teaching job and the way she showed it I could see she'd taken the argument and looked through what she could've done differently. The lesson from this was that it was often best to sleep on the argument its best to confront it. This was something I could live by as there are times I have a reputation for sleeping on difficult decisions to make rather than confront them head on.
By lessons end I had taken in a lot of information and advice and one activity that we were told to do was watch Ferris Bulers day off something that I was familiar with even if I did see references on E4's the Goldbergs. I was watching clips of the film which proved very inspiring and even slightly funny too.
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