Assignment 3.1

1. List the 4 steps in the design process and explain what occurs during each phase.  

Step 1 Preparation- Prepare by establishing a brief for your project and do research on visual, technical, and sketching ideas.

Step 2 Development- Develop your project by developing ideas, brainstorming, creating mood boards, and begin planning. Respond to the client's brief by negotiating with them and pitching ideas. Design the project by storyboarding, sourcing materials and images, and generating assets. The final step in development is to use your designs and create a working prototype.

Step 3 Testing- Test by evaluation, technical checking, and audience testing. Then add the final touches.

Step 4 Delivery- Deliver your project and provide the required formats. Then get paid for all your hard work. 

2.  What is a Brief?  What should it include?

A brief is basically what your client gives you that is a summary or list of requirements that need for the project. It can come in the form of a document, an email, or a speech/conversation. It should contain information about the target audience, color schemes, fonts, logos, and the message or whatever the clients wants to convey.

3.  What are the two categories of research? Describe each.

Visual Research- Looking and taking notes of stuff that has already been done and seeing what works or doesn't work for you. Research material can come from magazines, movies, TV, books, artists and so on. 

Technical Research- Looking to see if what you are trying to is physically possible for you to do, learning new software, identifying and addressing any technical problems.

4.  Explain what a storyboard is, what it should include, and why it is important.  Give me good insight, not just one or two sentences. 

Storyboarding is comic strips with frames and text and is an essential tool in making films and animations. It was originally created and used in the field of animation as a way to show off ideas so everybody is on the same page of visualizing the project before money and time was spent on the animation.