Media Roles In Industries Weekly Summaries
Media Roles in Industry Weekly Summaries
Day 2- Media industries: Roles and practices lecture
6 weeks project researching media roles and practices giving a 10 minute group presentation on your work. Working in groups , you will research areas within the animation industry and the potential jobs available to you.
Research blog needed in the area I want to look into . Also including contacting a practitioner in the industry about research area. My early thoughts are to contact Ben Su a Pixar animator who I had made contact with earlier on in the year.
10 minute group presentation using video clips and supporting text.
Everyone in group must contribute and speak during the presentation
Blog has to contain what the degree can go into. Further study , independent filmmaker or working for a company.
500 word statement that summarises research findings.
Must include bibliography for the presentation.
-By researching into the industry it familiarises yourself with the job roles and studios that I can apply to after my degree.
-using areas of interest as a starting point. Begin to locate creative practice with a wider range of knowledge
Working in your groups, discuss and chose an area of interest on which to focus your presentation research.
Group task for the following week
-Prepare a 5-minute, 3 slide presentation profiling your chosen area Job role you are profiling
Career presentation from Daisy Morgan
Career presentation Helen Schroeder
Internship presentation by Oyku Baskin
Career presentation by Indigo Illusions
Animation industries 2d, Cg, Motion graphics , stopmotion
Studios( Laika ,Pixar ,Aardman)
Production companies(aspect film/not scale)
-Manage logistics and finances
Animated features (stop motion)
Good books example for motion graphics
Blink productions and blink studios- Stopmotion
Day 2 - Media roles in industry lecture
Career presentation from Daisy Morgan
Take aways from the lecture :
Influence - Her influences are many anime cartoons , nature with national geographic and children’s programmes. She is also influenced by the games played when she was younger. Instagram also plays a part in inspiring her pages like pun animation and Manta Gr, Gaston Pacheco.
University - She chose NUA due to the sound design and narrative aspect of the course. The course was based on the fundamentals and offers the understanding with other creators. Convinced on doing 2D hand drawn initially.
Through experimentation it is the best way of bettering yourself instead of trying to be perfect at each aspect. Take as many risks as possible through experimentation. This allows you to find your own style and way of creating.
Internship scheme- Go to as many networking events as possible as this will allow career opportunities and internships.
- present information in concise paragraphs and bullet points
use visuals and present information clearly
Use key quotes source directly from research
Include short films clips
Conclusion what have you learned
Make a contact- A checklist
Thoroughly research the organisation and the individual before writing.
Remember to maintain a certain level of formality
Address correspondence to a named person
Three questions max and that they are easy to understand
Can contact other people as well
Group one presentation review-
I feel like the first presentation went well as we each shared how we were going to research and structure the projects with the group. As I am slightly uncomfortable with public speaking I was anxious when first speaking. However I quickly grew to enjoy it and explain the processes of some of the artists and the work they had created. I feel like the presentation will progress as each person adds their own personal style and slides on their chosen artist. This explains the pipeline and the way characters are developed. As the presentation was only three slides long it was a small sample into what the main presentation will be about. I felt like more input could be made by my peers as it was me and Rachel mainly speaking to the audience. This is something we can work on in the future giving everyone an allotted time to speak.
Day 2 - Media in industries
Helen Schroeder Lecture/Talk on careers- Pre-production work
Has tried multiple disciplines. Helen explained how competitive character animation is and that if that is what you want to do you have to be completely driven and focused on that goal. This is instead of jumping between roles and jobs. She also explained that jumping and changing job roles can also help establish a career as it helps find what you want to specialise in.
At the start of her studies she focused heavily on stop motion animation. So in her work at university she focused heavily in the stop motion genre. She then through her final third year film got an internship in model making. She then became an animation intern on Dragon in 2007.This helped her become recommissioned as a freelance animator and model maker. As she was working for the same company she decided to focus heavily on the animation aspect instead of becoming a model maker splitting and letting go of the opportunities that this created to pursue stop motion animation.
Aardman storyboarding course
This was a professional course and a foot in the door to a major studio. This allowed her to work on the storyboards for Arthur Christmas. This helped her get the job in animating Arthur in cg but she took a stocktake and because of her family did not pursue a future in La where she could work on the larger films.
Helen then decided to teach at NUA and worked freelance doing storyboarding for Tv and freelance.Helen worked for Hurst animation and was paid per scene.She also storyboarded for a Flora campaign. She then got back to storyboarding for Aardman on early man but was cut from the project because of travelling and working remotely. She then worked on Watership Down and worked remotely and continues to do that to this day.
Key skills and take ways from talk:
Don’t be arrogant limits further opportunities
Keep to deadlines and promises
Have a collaborative attitude
If able select jobs carefully and value yourself
Helen also mentioned Annecy animation festival in France which allows opportunities forms he major studios for work.
Day 2- Media Roles in industry lecture
2nd year lecture - Oyku Baskin
Gobelins animation - A week intensive course on animation in Paris. Consists of conferences, a big assignment , new friends and people. They bring industry professionals that are currently working on projects which help guide new perspectives and ideas.
The 2 week assignment. A small exercise where you can choose the mediums of traditional 2D, Digital 2D or 3D. Receiving feedback from peers and tutors. The content changes every year.
What do you gain from this ?- Gain connections from all over the world.
Main tips for this course is to kill you ego. Removing your ego allows adaptation and a better realisation of what work you can produce.
Tips for the university course
Go to everything the uni puts on
Separate your work and home space : come to uni to do work
Get as experienced with software as possible. Use Lynda as much as possible
Keep up to date with weekly summaries and blogs.
- Meet up every week, know what everyone is doing. Set goals for each other
Constantly ask for feedback
Indigo illusions -Set up in the ideas factory
Their vision- contribute to the creative community of norwich swell as become a personal company. Getting new films and commissions on a regular basis
Day 6 - Media roles in industry
Today I finalised the slides for the presentation that I will send to the group. These slides contain bullet points for the research I have completed for the project. Furthermore, I have printed a longer more detailed variation of this to be used as a script for the presentation itself. In addition I was able to complete the 500 word report on the project and took the angle of what the research had shown me about the industry. This included the different job roles I had found how companies develop characters and what are their fundamental values in crating characters. I focused heavily around the process of Pixar in this project as I was drawn directly to their way of storytelling and character design process. I am going to add how the presentation went to the later section of the evaluation as the presentation is on Tuesday next week.
Day 2 - Media roles in industries presentation
Today I had the group presentation for our chosen subject of character design. I found it quite easy to talk infant of the group and deliver my part of the presentation well. This is due to previous practice through my college years. I tried to speak slowly and confidently in order to ensure that my point was iterated about Animatics, Alonso Martinez and the characters like spot and Arlo. I found that as a whole the presentation flowed and we we able to fully explore the subject matter due to the extensive research we had completed. On feedback from Helen, Peter and John this feeling was reciprocated.
On reflection I found that the presentation could have included slides on interactions with the animators and character designers we had contacted. However, this was chosen against due to the layout of the presentation being cluttered and we opted to say who we spoke to instead. I was able to contact Ben Su and not Alonso Martinez , however they have similar job roles within Pixar and I expected the same sort of response. I felt this observation of to keep drawing and be open to influence and inspiration would have helped hit home the message of the presentation. This is due to the presentation being about the extensive research and development that is used in the character design pipeline to ensure that the characters are culturally and morally appropriate.
