Cassie was chosen as the team leader for her animation production group. She created discussion forums on Moodle for the group to collaborate. This included topics for researching existing radio stations, generating initial ideas, and completing individual tasks. Cassie storyboarded the concept, created a flipbook in Flash, and edited a 3D boombox. She masked the flipbook and boombox together and added a spinning 3D logo in the finale. After editing the project together in Premier Pro, Cassie uploaded the finished video animation to her blog.

1. Cassie Coyne
E6 Radio 3D Animation Production Log
Creating my Forum
To start the new Unit Team Leaders were chosen to
create forums on the eccles moodle website for
team members to post on, and I was chosen for
Team 1.
So I created a new forum under the Unit 67
Animation title, and gave it my name so my team
would know where to post their ideas and could
easily find it.

2. Creating the discussion topics
Then I created a new discussion topic for
each relevant task needed to complete, so
the team could post their work on there. I did
this by clicking the button highlighted.
Then I simply gave the discussion topic a relevant
title , then added a small message telling the team
what they should post in the specific topic.

3. Ethical Checklist
Before we started working on the
ideas for the radio station animation,
as the Team Leader I had to make
sure that the Ethical Checklist
Agreement was set up for everyone
to sign and fill in. I did this by
downloading the document from
moodle, then using an old image of
my signature and copy an pasting it
into the space for my name.
The same as the other times I
created discussion topics for the
group, I posted a new topic with
the title Ethical Checklist then
uploading the correct document I
just filled in to it so the rest of the
group could easily find everything
and upload their work promptly.

4. Collaboration Agreement
For the Collaboration Agreement, I
worked the same as wit the Ethical, and
downloaded the document from moodle,
and used the old signature, then filled in
the necessary information about me
including my name, address, postcode,
telephone number and my email address.
Then I uploaded the work I did under the
title Collaboration and let the others reply
with their work.

5. Existing Radio Station Research
To get started with the task, as a team we researched into existing
radio stations to get a better idea of what is already out there.
I created a discussion forum for this and uploaded my own work by
using the attach button at the bottom of the page before posting it
as shown below.
When my team wanted to post their work
under the specific title, they simply clicked
reply and uploaded a small message and an
attachment like me.

6. Pooled Ideas Generation
The next task for the group was the pooled ideas generation.
For this we all individually, used a light hearted approach and created
numerous rough drafts of possible ideas for the radio station on paper.
Almost like a mood board of sketches.
Then once we had each contributed our ideas and looked them over as a
group, we decided the on the best ideas and what we could use
together.
After discussing all the ideas we decided to mix two of mine and one of
Sam's ideas together. We chose to do the flipbook idea with a boom box
sound system and the spinning number ‘9’ which turns into a ‘6’ and
becomes the e6 logo.

7. Individual Tasks
The group was assigned their
individual tasks for the e6 logo
animation.
1. Me – My task was to complete
the base for the animation which
was the flipbook, which I did in
Flash.
2. Jordan- Had to create the e6 logo
3. Sam- Created the 3D boom box in
light wave modeller.

8. Rough Story board
For the rough storyboard, as I was the best at drawing on my team I was chosen to sketch
out the rough idea of what was going to happen.
The pages below show the number of frames, what happens during those frames and
how it all plays out and how it is linked to the e6 radio station with the logo at the end.

9. Final Story Board
For the final story board I used the images of the rough
storyboard sketches and the logo Jordan made for the final
frame; then I typed in the text boxes underneath the
pictures a summary of what was happening in them and how
things were playing through, and then uploaded it to the
moodle site with the rest of the work.

10. Creating the Flipbook Flash File
To create the flipbook flash file I loaded
up Adobe Flash Pro CS5, Type 2 so it
was easier to run and work with.
As I had learned to do in previous tasks
on the course I drew the flipbook using
the paintbrush tool and joined all the
lines so it was a solid object with
sections that could be easily selected
and edited.
Once it was mainly created, I selected
the area of the first blank page at the
start of the animation and filled it using
the paint bucket tool with bright green
so the area stood out. Then I went over
the whole animation along the timeline
and made sure all of the flip drawings
were joined together and were solid.
Once that was done I moved onto
creating the correct discussion topic to
upload it and began editing the boom-
box that was uploaded there.

11. Boom-box Progression in Modeller
First I downloaded the boom box (shown to the left).
Then I edited the surfaces and properties including luminosity, specularity, gloss,
transparency, reflection, colour shades and tones, shadows, materials and more.
The boom boxes shown below are my edits, where I used trial and error to come up with an
idea I liked the look of so it was personal to my tastes.
The boom box shown to the left is the final edit and outcome. It is clear
that the idea progressed as the ideas before it adopt green hues of colour,
then purple accessories and detail.

12. Creating a Scene in Premier
To create a scene for the completed boom box, I opened
the start menu and opened premier pro, then imported
the object into the camera view. Then I moved the light
and camera position into place for optimum visuals and
moved the object around taking key frames where
applicable. I looked on the final story-board sheet and
took the number of overall frames which was 500, then
dragged the number of key frames to 500 and went back
to make the scene.
Once the scene was created on the timeline with
different frames up to 500, I played in real time to check
that it looked alright and everything was running
smoothly and to plan as the storyboard was.
Once that was finished I could move onto rendering the
object.

13. Rendering with Light Wave
To render out the completed scene I adjusted all the render settings, under the tab Render Globals to make sure that
when I rendered everything would run efficiently and flow well with no bugs or errors.
Once I had finished changing all the values in the rendering tab I began rendering the scene and allowed it to load all the
different frames together from 0-500 to make a moving film.
As the scene rendered out I was given an image of the final product so I knew what it would look like once it was
rendered completely as shown to the far left. I changed the black background to white because I could see the boom box
easier and better and the flipbook animation would include the object being masked onto the actual sketchbook which
has white paper.

14. Masking the Flipbook Flash File
Once the flipbook flash file was created and the boom box was completely edited to my liking I could move onto Masking the
flipbook flash file with the object.
Whilst the boom box was rendering everything out (taking a long amount of time) I decided to use another computer to finish the
task of Masking.
To do this I opened Flash CS5 Pro, and recent files, then selected the Flipbook animation. I started out planning how I was going to
mask it as there were two ways. First I was going to use multiple mask layers that my tutor Harry recommended and had already
created and uploaded to my area. Then after working with it, he decided it was better to use a more simple method and merge all
of the masking files into one layer for the entire animation.
As I had already built the animation over the multiple mask layers, Harry showed me how to move the animation down onto one
layer, overlapping the key frames so it still ran smoothly and efficiently but took up much less space.
Once the masking layers were done, I moved onto the boom box. I imported the files (all in one movie clip as to take up less
memory space) into the library, then took it onto the stage view and placed it in the centre of the flipbook on the green page at the
beginning of the animation. Then I moved it accordingly with each frame, positioning it correctly on the blank coloured pages, then
saving the file and playing it over to check it worked.
Masks 1 –five of Masks all put into one layer
Drawing the all the flips, which
flipbook out didn’t work out Masked Boom box
over the flipbook

15. E6 3D logo
After all the rendering and the scene was finished I moved onto the e6 logo, and downloaded Jordan's’ creation of it. I
found that the flat 2D e6 logo wasn’t appropriate and created a new version in modeller in 3D to give the overall scene a
better effect, especially considering I didn’t do too much for the premier rendering scene.
To create the logo used the box
tool for the frames and changed
the shape and size. Then I used
the text tool to type in the
number 6 and e and then radio.
I posted them all on different
layers so that I could work on
them all separately without
running into issues all the time
changing or editing things that I
didn’t mean to because the
objects were overlapping or
getting in the way.
Once I had finished creating all
the separate parts of the actual
logo I cut and pasted them all
onto one layer as the entire
object so I knew it fitted together
properly and looked right from
different angles.

16. E6 logo Rendering in Layout
Before I moved onto placing the logo in layout I planned the best way forward. I thought
that the letter ‘e’ from the logo would look better spinning around on the speaker than the
entire logo, or the six as it is round in shape and fits perfectly.
To do this I took the 3D created E6 Radio Logo, then separated all the objects onto different
layers in modeller so I could edit all to my satisfaction. Once I did that, I opened the original
boom box in modeller and checked the positioning and the size. I found that it was too large
on a whole to fit properly, so I switched between layers of the boom box and the logo and
changed the size smaller to match the size of the speaker.
Once the size was right and I tested it by
copying and pasting it onto the boom box layer
to see if it really did fit, I moved onto the
layout animation of the logo.
I opened Layout in the NewTek folder and
loaded the recent animations and chose the
boom box animation. I did this so that I could
start with most of the initial work done (the
boom box, all the render settings etc.) and
then I imported the ‘e’ onto the stage and
moved into position. Once I did that I created
frames from 500-750 and rotated the ‘e’ then
faded it out.

17. Piecing the Video Together
After creating the 3D logo for my scene, I uploaded what I had finished into premier pro and began piecing everything
together by importing the necessary files into the inspector view drop down list including the boom box rendered video,
the sound effect (SLIPSTREAM) from the E6 sound beds folder, the E6 3D logo and the flash file of the flipbook.
Once some of the files were imported I dragged them from the library to the timeline on the left hand side of the screen
and positioned them correctly so that the animation would flow well and in order. To do this I had to split the boom box
animation in half and space it out so I could place the scene of the flipbook n between. I did this because the flipbook
scene needed to occur in the middle of the animation.

18. Working on the Premier Project
Once all the main work was finished I went
back onto premier and checked over
everything to make sure it was flowing well.
I looked over the timeline and imported the
animation of the logo spinning on the
speaker. Then I placed it on the end of the
original boom box animation so it flowed
from one thing to the next.
I had to copy and paste some parts of the
make up and then overlap them with a
effect called draining, which faded one part
of the film to black or to the next part.
Once I did that, I went back into the original
files on their individual programs that each
was created on and edited them to make
sure the background colours matched in
appropriate places and that all the objects
were the same colour and the correct
shape.
Once I was sure that everything would run
smoothly and that all the build up work was
completed, I moved onto the final stage and
played the animation, then slightly changed
the layout of the timeline so it flowed
smoothly and looked to a more professional
standard.

19. Uploading the Video
When I had finished editing and completing the
animation motion graphic, I moved onto the last stage
of uploading the video to my blog.
To start I exported the file to my folder on the
computer drive so it was easy to access, then I went
onto YouTube and uploaded it to my account.
After it was uploaded there, I simply clicked on the
video embedding URL and copied and pasted it onto
the message of the new blog post.