Sketch Squad Weekly update: final deadline week

Well Hello again once more to our blog post from the sketch squad. Man with everything that has been going on these last few weeks (I have been experiencing this immense sudden panic first hand almost everyday since then and trust me it is rough) I am here to give a little update on what has been happening with our team since the last update post. Let me get a little rundown of where we currently are at this point in time.

The Project

From the last update we established that we had uploaded the work in progress version of our finalised project which just consisted of the Narrated version of our comic and the pages of the full comic. Now just a few days ago we had a discussion over our group chat about the final upload and making sure about everything that we need to have in the folder is all there and fully uploaded and that has been uploaded on Wednesday Night, even if it is just slightly late I'm sure it will be all A-Ok.

Presentations

Now for what is one of the two final parts of this module that we faced is now focused upon the presentation. Now the presentation from each group was supposed to be this week but due to the words of the government and for the health and safety of everyone, we were put into a two week lockdown that was supposed to lift tonight but it was just earlier this week that it has now been extended to the end of easter break on the 19th of April. Now in response to this we were given a new version where instead of it being a collective of all of the work together it actually be an individual presentation on each of our roles and what we had contributed to the whole module since the beginning of the group and how our work had turned out in the end. Luckily I know all the stuff that I had contributed to this group project and the role of Team Leader for it it should all come together nicely and hopefully get in done in time when I get the time to do so (you know with everything going on, there is a lot I have to get through, mainly keeping on top of other modules as well as my job in work of course) but you know it will all work out.

The Project Book

the last bit of the project of course is of course the Project Book. Now Luckily we planned ahead and had it all done up and made up before this whole panic began, so the likes of the project booklet has been all made for an online soft copy. As for the Physical Hard copy, I believe that Adam had been in contact with the printing place and I believe got the book printed out as well as the poster (one for each of the members and for those who were involved with the filming of the voices of the film as well because we may as well give them a contribution to this project for help) so we have that in case we need to hand in a hard copy if we come back into the college after all of this lockdown but only time will tell.

Overall I believe that we have everything under control and ready to call this module complete as we have worked hard throughout these last few months and up over the last few weeks up to the deadline and I am very proud of all the hard work that this team has done through the course of all the hard times, the stress and many other things (there is a lot that I am not going to discuss otherwise this blog is going to go on for about a chapters worth of pages) we have collectively come together to make something special.

Cheerio!!!

-Sam H

Sketch Squad Weekly Update: Deadline week

Sketch Squad Weekly Update: Deadline week

Well, hello again to everyone in the Sketch squad group as well as everyone who is reading these blogs. Well after a whole semester and 6 weeks, it has reached the week of the deadline to the project. According to the calendar the due date for the work in progress of the final project hand-up with anything else being handed up the night before the presentation itself in two weeks time. So let me give a little rundown on the progress of where my group is currently at this week

COMIC:

So Let me start with what we originally started off our project with which was our graphic novel. As of now we have it all laid out, the story has been written, the pages have been illustrated and coloured and we have a rough print of it sorted out. In terms of a more together physical copy we are near the completion of that now we just have to receive one more reply back from the printers about that but other then that we have it all completed.

Website: 

Now as I mentioned before in a previous blog that Adam and Nathan E have been working along on making a website about our project and the group and from what I have gathered is that we have it all near completion. I spoke with one of them just recently and he confirmed to me is that their is only one part of the site just left to code and it should be good to go.

Video:

Lastly in terms of the project workload, we decided to add a prologue video to our project that will also be an illustrated and narrated reading of our comic, done panel by panel, page by page to better emphasise what story we are trying to tell. The prologue video was filmed by myself and Dillon and the entire video was edited and worked on by yours truly which took I'd say about two to three hours to sync up the voices with the video and to make sure that it doesn't sound off and also to make sure that each panel has enough time to be shown so that they can take in all the hard-work that we put into this project and that Four and a half minute video can be seen here on Vimeo.

Group Morale:

Just before I head off I want to discuss just how the group has been in this last week. as we have been on a planned out schedule over the last few weeks,  I believe that from this week that we have been on top of things and that everything is all good and calm. We seem to b all good in relation to Group project but I think it's more of the whole other modules that have people in a headlock more then everything. As for me well I haven't had a break from just college work, college, all of these countless assignments and balancing a retail job that changes my schedule every week and have me in on all different days, it would be nice to actually have a day to myself for once because my energy is completely drained right now and everything being added on again is not helping my mental state (when it was already in a rough patch for the last while and still is) but I somehow manage.

in the end I believe that we have everything all together and I feel by the end of I'd say Wednesday that we should have everything together and uploaded for the final upload. We already have the work in progress uploaded and we shall get started on the powerpoint in no time and maybe the booklet at the same time but only time will tell on that part.

Cheerio!!!

-Sam H

Updated Gantt Chart

In one of my last blog posts, I created a Gantt chart. This was created to show us what work we had to do and the deadlines. However the Gantt chart wasn't sufficeint nor as detailed as it could be, so after some constructive criticism and some conferring with my team.

This is the revised Gantt chart, it has some of the pevious charts sections such as the main deliverables like the comic (digital and physical), the videos and the website. But now I've also added in Tasks that are needed to be done for these deliverables and who needs to do them.

• For the digital comic and the tasks associated to it the colour is red. The people who are doing the tasks are Sam and Nathan Harte.

• For the website and its associated Tasks, the colour is orange and the people working on it are Adam and Nathan Ellis. 

• For the videos we need to create and it's associated tasks, the colour is Blue and the people working on it are Dillon and Sam.

Hopefully this improved Gantt chart will help us out, show what all needs to be done, by who and when. But thats doesn't mean it's not going to need future improvements.

Update on our progression

Update

Hey guys so I just thought Id write a blog to update what we have done and what we dont just to add to the blogger blogs and slack.

Overall I feel that we are coming along great the last few weeks both in progression as a group and should definitely have some great material to produce on the presentation day and final group submission.

recently Finished items

We have all of our comic pages sketched out, designed and made up in illustrator by Sam and Dillon ( with some additional help from Nathan Harte after he finished working on the script).

Adam and Nathan Ellis are currently working on the website for the presentation day and final submission .( Dillon has also give all digital imagery to Adam last week in order to add some more interesting visuals to the site to catch the viewers eye when visiting the website for the digital version of our comic.

Dillon also filmed a short video intro starring Sam that can be use to introduce the comic to the audience both at the presentation and on the website itself as a video option. although it still needs to be edited more by Sam and Nathan using premier pro we at least have the into and soundtrack added. Now we only need to add the comic imagery for the story and the narrative for it recorded by our narrators.

Dillon also got in contact with someone from a separate college to do the narrative for the story overall, however we still need to find voices for both the female and male in the story.

Dillon has also created a small folder to present our progression t the lecturers and other attendees on the presentation day , as well as to help archive all of our design work, sketches, character and story development, artwork , website progression, film progression and film editing , as well as the team members in the project overall.

To do still

There is still a few things to be done for the big day which include the following things.

Adding the images into the video for editing with narration and voice work (Sam Harrison and Nathan Harte)

Finish editing the website with videos imagery and information ( Adam Fleming and Nathan Ellis)

Finish getting narration and voice work for video done ( Sam and Dillon)

Edit the stuff in fr the comic pages in Canva before getting it published at reeds in town (Nathan Harte)

Do pages for advertisement for website page in comic and narrators for video page/link for Vimeo (Dillon)

make unique slide for us on presentation day on Canva (group-work)

Get presentation on big screen/ test acoustics of video in room before presentation day (group-work)

Practice as a group ahead of time for our presentation (group-work)

weekly progress weeks 3 and 4

Well hello again to everyone far and wide to another weekly update on how our team has been going so let me break it down to as such:

Timetable: 

We have reworked the timetable to establish a better work schedule that is divided out to everyone to help get a clear perspective on what the whole situation is for everyone. We have a clear deadline for the Graphic Novel, website and the little video for the 10th of March but we have clear goals for everything else with the colouring of the pages due by the end of week 5 (Feb 29th or March 1st), the website by the end of week 6 as well as the video for the opening of the narrated comic (6-8th of March) and then finish it all together by the day before.

Graphic Novel:

We have a total of 11 pages to colourise and add text to by the end of week 5. The colouring of the pages are completed all that remains is for some of the text to be added to the remaining pages but everything is on track

Website:

For the site, Adam and Nathan E have been working to get a structured sutemap and website sorted out and so far it all looks good. All that remains is for them to add the images and the video to the site to access it all together

Video:

So myself and Dillion have recorded a live action version of a prologue to the whole comic that will transition into the comic and Narration. All that remains is to edit it all together to music and then get the voices together to record over the video but it should be simple to sort out.

Doc:

This part will come after the whole deadline where we will have a short one on one interview from all of us where we will discuss what parts of the group project that we were heavily involved with and how easy or challenging the whole process will be. This could be the aspect that will be brought together for the presentation day but we can discuss that in another group meeting

All in all I think we are on track with everything as it is and we should have it all done by the time the deadline rolls around. So until next time

Cheerio!!!

-Sam H

Progression of website

Progression of our website

For our project we decided to create a website to host and display our final piece. For this little assignment we allocated myself (Adam Fleming) and Nathan Ellis to get it done. You can see the current state of the website above. We started off by creating the base of any website. The index page as well as the folders for the images and style sheets. 

After some feedback from our supervisor we realised that we were missing a vital piece of the foundation for our website, the sitemap and wireframes, so I created some rough sketch versions of a sitemap and wireframes for each individual page of the website (11 in total). While these sketches do serve their purpose we're looking to make some revamped versions using adobe illustrator to make them more presentable for our final presentation.

We ran into a few small problems regarding divs and our nav bar but we got them resolved. At this point we're just looking to fix some small decorative issues like font type, text decoration and overall colour. When we get that done we'll divide the wireframes between each other and add in the bulk of the html content, at which point the site should be for the most part complete.

script for index of comic, Back of comic

Dillon Eagers B00121743 Comic Scripting

For this weekend I focused on marking out how the layout of the comic would look when being viewed as well as the info for what is n the back of the page.

Index 

1. Front page  

2. Black page  

3. Page 1: Index  

4. Page 2: About Us 

5. Page 3: Comic Page 1 

6. Page 4: Comic Page 2 

7. Page 5: Comic Page 3 

8. Page 6: Comic Page 4 

9. Page 7: Comic Page 5 

10. Page 8: Comic Page 6 

11. Page 9: Comic Page 7 

12. Page 10: Comic Page 8 

13. Page 11: Comic Page 9 

14. Page 12: Comic Page 10 

15. Page 13: Comic Page 11 

16. Black Page 

17. Page 14: Thank You Letter to reader 

18. Page 15: Inspiring Quotes 

19. Page 16: Inspiring Quotes  

20. Page 17: Concept Sketches 

21. Page 18: Concept Sketches 

22. Page 19: Concept Sketches 

23. Page 20: Concept Sketches 

24. Page 21: Poster Artwork 

25. Page 22: Poster Artwork 

26. Page 23: Poster Artwork 

27. Page 24: Poster Artwork 

28. Page 25: Advertisement for Official Website 

29. Page 26: Narrators and voice work 

30. Page 27: Mail Away 

31. Black Page 

32. Back Cover 

Back Cover Information (Note Purple cover for creativity)  

Now Available as a Graphic Novel or Digital Novel 

    

 Sketch Squads 

Digital Breakthrough  

For our group assignments on Inspiration We started Our Project with the theme of Identity. From this our group knew we wanted to Base our group assignment on the struggles of college as it is something each student and their Identity goes through and that each person in this group has struggled with personally. 

We then chose the Sub theme of Dreams as we found that each student going through college often goes into college identifying what they want to do with their life and in trying to follow their dreams/ aspirations in the process. 

So please enjoy reading Sketch Squads Graphic Novel about a guy named Harry trying to adapt to college and in the process learning through the help of his friend Katie that  

“A little Help  

      Goes  

  A Long Way “ 

 Another bit of good news I have been in contact with someone outside college to come in and narrate the novel in the video format for the presentation . I am hoping to record Tuesday week and to be able to book the sound room and some recording equipment for it.

My to do list

• Edit index for comic and site
• Make poster artwork page 3 in adobe illustrator
• Front cover and back cover in adobe illustrator
• Narrator tributes page in back of comic
• advertisements page for website
• Start editing video in premier pro fr presentation
• Find voice actors for Harry and Katie,s characters in video narration
• Secure room and equipment for audio ( ask Ian)
• Begin to help Sam and Nathan with comic page editing