Group appraisal

For this project me, Andy Howard and Dave Jones worked on the flash part and Dan Whittaker and Dan Farrell worked on the website part.

Andrew Howard

Andy came up with the initial idea and he contributed the most to flash part. Andy came up with the webcam, keyboard, colour palette and the image fade. So without a doubt Andy contributed a lot to this project and I can say we would have struggled to complete this project without him.

David Jones

Dave came up with the paint brush tool and he also found the keyboard code but unfortunately we couldn't use the keyboard and code he found. Dave also researched the colour palette and facial colours for our project. So Dave did a lot of the background work and research for our project. Dave's input was vital because he came up with the paint brush tool code in flash.

Me (Chris Dunn)

I worked more on the design side because my skills in flash and the technical side of things aren't great. So I contributed by designing the storyboard to show how our installation would work. I also drew up designs of how our project would be displayed. I also came up with the name quick draw and created the logo for the site. However this was changed further down the line to a different logo that I hadn't designed. So I did contribute a lot on the design side but not on the flash side.

Dan Farrell

Dan worked alongside Dan Whittaker creating the website and the data base. Dan mainly contributed on the design of the website. However it is hard to write what they both did because we didn't work in the same room as them.

Dan Whittaker

Dan worked on the data base and creating the website plus helped Dan Farrell with the design of the site. So Dan did do a lot of work on the php and html side of things. However it is hard to write an appraisal on the two Dan's because they worked away from us in another room.

Evaluation

As a group we didn't communicate as much as we should have and because of this it seemed we worked more like two groups instead of one group. This is due to the fact we never all sat down and worked together in the same room. So it seemed that we were split in two me, Andy and Dave in one room working on the flash part and the two Dan's in another room working on the website part of the project. So looking back it would have been better if we all worked together in the one room. However I think we all contributed in one way or another on this project. It's just we didn't communicate enough which we should have done.

Individual appraisal continued

I then began to look at designing a corporate ID for our project. I came up with the name quick draw as a name and the rest of the group approved this. Once I had the name I began to draw out ideas for the logo. I came up with a few ideas using text on its own and images and text. Below are a selection of my ideas.

After showing my ideas to the rest of the group they liked the designs using the pen and the text together. So I then drew these up in Adobe Illustrator using different types of brush style fonts. I then showed these to the rest of the group and between us we picked one that we could use as our logo. Below are my final logo designs

However my logo got changed which I wasn't too happy about. This is because the role I was given in this project was to work on the design side of things and designing the logo. My logo got changed after we had all agreed to use my logo so this did disappoint me. This is because I contributed more on the design side of things rather than in flash.

Evaluation

I don't feel I contributed as much to this project as the rest of the group. I think this is due to my lack of skills in flash and the technical side of things. However I did contribute a lot to the design side of things because this is what I was allocated with.

I came up with the storyboard, design of stand, logo and the name quick draw. So on the design side I did contribute a lot.

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Individual appraisal

My role in this project was to work on the design side of things. The first thing I did was to draw a storyboard to show how people would use our installation. I drew this out then showed it to the rest of the group and our tutor James Field. Below are my storyboard drawings.

I then came up with ideas of how our installation would be displayed. James showed us a stand that we could use to display our project in. So after seeing this I did some more drawings of the stand with our project displayed inside the stand. I then showed these drawings to the rest of the group and then drew one up. Below is my image of how our project would be displayed.