Martin Devney created a production log for his BTec Level 3 Extended Diploma in Creative Media Production Games Design final major project. He decided to create a sci-fi environment for a new action/adventure game commissioned by 343 Industries, taking inspiration from Halo, Star Wars, Mass Effect and Dead Space. Over several weeks, he conducted research, created sketches, and developed a 3D environment design in LightWave Modeler. He pitched his idea and completed the project, though encountered technical difficulties rendering the final 2-minute animation within the deadline timeframe.

1. Salford City College
Eccles Sixth Form Centre
BTec Level 3
Extended Diploma in Creative Media Production
Games Design
FMP - Production Log
Name Martin Devney
Date: 03.02.14 Week 1
Create a scenario for the final major project where I decided I will create a sci-fi environment for a new Action/Adventure Game
commissioned by 343 Industries where I will be inspired by Halo, Star wars, Mass Effect and Dead space… researching diverse and
fantastical environment to develop initial Sketches .
Date: 10.02.14 Week 2
Did Research into the sci-fi genre by creating a survey and ideas generation by creating a mood board
Date: 17.02.14 Holiday week
Carried on with the mood board citing the sources where I obtained the Images from.
Date: 24.02.14 Week 3
I prepared my presentation for my pitch which included answers to the survey I created, also information on the company(343 Industries )
and what they do, also including the mood board. I then pitched my idea to my project manager in front of a camera recording my
presentation.
Date: 03.03.14 Week 4
I started to do initial sketches for my Final Major Project using a Pencil.

2. Date: 10.03.14 Week 5
Using the initial sketches I started to create my final design in LightWave Modeler using the techniques I learnt from previous projects
Date: 17.03.14 Week 6
I Continued working on my environment design in Modeler
Date: 24.03.14 Week 7
I Continued working on my environment design in Modeler
Date: 7.04.14 Week 9( Past Dead Line)
I did my evaluation , everything else was done, needed to upload everything then encountered a few problems, blogger wouldn’t let me
create additional posts, so then I had to create the post on my phone , then put everything on the posts .
Date: 31.03.14 Week 8( Deadline )
Finished my environment design in Modeler, transferred over to layout so that I could animate which I manage to complete on the
deadline day but needed to render which I had to do at home on my laptop where close to deadline which was at midnight experiencing
technical difficulties with the rendering as the animation was around 2 minutes long which needed more than 18hrs to render. Half way
through it crashed. So I decided to render a certain amount of frames (1-1000, 1001-2000, etc) but I was over the deadline ,so I carried
on with the render through the weekend , once completed I put the animation clips into an editing software called Adobe Premiere Pro
CC. I add sound to the clips then I rendered to make the full clip 2 minutes long that I intended to do.