This production log details the progress of a student named Jason Finch on his final major project for a creative media course. Over several weeks, Jason researched 1950s cartoons and animation techniques, developed a story idea involving time travel between past and future cartoon settings, created storyboards, pitched his project, designed black and white backgrounds, animated character scenes, and updated his schedule when he realized he needed more time to complete the project.

1. Salford City College
Eccles Sixth Form Centre
BTec Level 3
Extended Diploma in Creative Media Production
Games Design
Final Major Project
Production Log
Name Jason Finch
Date Comments
Wednesday
27.02.13
This week, I booked my meeting with my Project Manager for March 5
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, in this I have to do a pitch about my project.
I started my project this week by researching popular kids shows from around the 50’s and those at this present day and why. There were a few iconic ones I found such as Tom
and Jerry, Regular Show etc. I also researched the environments from the 50’s and in the future.
I also had to research Cell Animations to see what it is and how it works, since I am doing a Cell Animation for my FMP.
Finally, from my research I collected earlier in that week, I started thinking of story ideas that could blend both classic and modern cartoon show elements together.
Wednesday
06.03.13
This week, I continued story planning and developed a Story Board, coming up with a Sci-Fi Sitcom that involves Time-Travel; I also researched shows which were popular from
surveys that I made last week like Tom and Jerry, Ed Edd n Eddy, Adventure Time etc.
I did my pitch this week as well, explaining what I plan to do with my FMP, what I have been researching, what I have found etc. I talked about the environment of both the past
and the future, even technology from the past and future and the cartoons made past and present.
Wednesday
13.03.13
I began researching my findings to get an idea of what sort of humour was in those cartoons and take ideas from those. I also finished it within the same week and began to get
more ideas for my story, I also got the risk assessment done this week, making myself aware of possible hazards and how they can happen.
Wednesday
20.03.13
This week I did the pre-production of my FMP, I had to figure out how much everything I would need to do my FMP would cost, getting all of the stuff I needed etc.
Wednesday
27.03.13
I didn’t produce anything this week.
Wednesday
03.04.13
This week, I made a start at producing the backgrounds that I plan to use based on the storyboards I did, I decided to design them in black and white because most cartoons in
the past were in a Black and White Style. The backgrounds I did this week were both outside buildings next to roads.
Wednesday
10.04.13
I had finished all my black and white backgrounds this week and moved on to start designing different backgrounds for Flash, most of which were based in a single room from
different perspectives, from the back, the front, etc.
Wednesday
17.04.13
I updated my schedule this week as I knew that I wasn’t going to have enough time to finish the project off, so I extended it by taking 2 weeks off my spare time. I started doing
the Animations of my Characters. I started with the Futuristic Scenes since I had already done those on Flash.
I did the Scene of when the Main Character “Tinuem”, goes to the future. I got half way through doing this since this was a really long Scene.
Wednesday
24.04.13
I finished 2 scenes this week; including the one I got half way though. The second Scene that I finished was of hover cars flying outside as my main character was looking at them.
I started work on the scene where Tinuem’s Future self finds his past self in his home, mistaking him for an intruder.