This page provides you with the prompts for the various reflections you’re required to create that address the design and development process you follow in designing your multimedia projects. Over the course of the semester, you’ll be required to create at least four different reflection posts.
In addition to creating written responses that address the various reflection prompts, please include visual evidence or external links when appropriate (links to research sources, images of design inspiration; sketches, wireframes or mockups of your ideas; links to prototypes, etc.) that support specific project
I. Proposal Phase & Pre-production Phase: Reflection Blog Post 1
1. Describe the development arc of your project proposal. How has your idea grown and changed over the time that you’ve been working on it? Are you content with your final proposal? Why or why not?
2. As you begin the pre-production phase of your project, what types of research have you conducted and or need to be conducted? Where will you look for specific resources? What aspects of your project need to follow a thorough visual design concept development process? How will you go about this process?
3. Discuss the topics you need to better learn in order to be able to successfully create your multimedia project? How will you go about learning this information? What types of contingency plans do you have in place in case the learning challenges becomes too great?
4. What kinds of evidence do you have of your conceptual development process? Use this reflection post to document that evidence. Please include images that represent the progression of your design thinking from simple concepts to more evolved ideas. Discuss major achievements or breakthroughs as they relate to creating an overall strategy and aesthetic style for your project.
II. Production Phase: Reflection Blog Post 2
5. As you move from pre-production mode to production mode, how do you plan to make your concepts, comps, prototypes, etc. into functioning, finished assets? What new considerations do you need to make as you transition from ideas to execution? Have you successfully learned what you need to or is that process still under way?
6. What types of problems have you encountered during the production phase of your project so far? Learning issues? Dead end roads? Difficulties turning what’s in your head into digital bits? Include visual examples of some of the things you’ve created and ultimately rejected or that have morphed from your original idea into something entirely different.
7. Include some of the finished (or near finished) assets that you’ve created so far and talk through the process you followed to create them. What do you have left to create? How have you gone about critically examining the assets you’ve created and their quality? Have your abilities to self assess improved over the development of this project? How so?
8. Now that you’re nearing the end of the production phase of your project, what have you achieved? How do the items you’ve produced line up with your goals for the project? Are you on track to wrap up the production process and move into final editing, finessing and assembly?
III. Post-production phase: Reflection Blog Post 3
9. As you enter the final phase of your multimedia projects, evaluate the types of editing and tweaking you have left to do. What can you do in this final phase that will push your project from a good one to a great one?
10. Now that you’re near the end of creating your design and development process, review how your (near) finished project measures up to your initial goals and plans. What have you learned about producing such a comprehensive project on your own and or in a group?
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