Final Project: Burnout

2.2.2023 - 5.3.2023 / Week 4 - Week 8
Sylvia Lau (0356130)
Bachelor of Design (Hons) in Creative Media
Information Design - Final Project

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INSTRUCTION

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Final Project: Burnout

Week 1

We were required to share our personal burnout experience. 

My Burnout Experience:

My burnout experience happened when I was taking UEC in the year 2021. Due to the pandemic, SPM has been delayed to 2021 February, so after finishing the exam, I only had a week time to take a break and continue my UEC lessons. I needed to prepare for UEC in 9 months, and the lessons were very rush so sometimes I couldn't catch up during the class. As the exam was getting closer, I was stressed and panicked all the time, if I rested for too long, I felt bad for not using the time to keep studying. I had a poor mental state during that time because I didn't have an appetite to eat and couldn't sleep well because of the stress.

For the group task, we were assigned to do research on the topic burnout. We distributed the research into different parts to work on. Through this research, I did understand more about burnout.

Figure 1.1 Research

Week 4

Our group leader did a task distribution for us. 

Figure 1.2 Infographic Script - Burnout

Figure 1.3 Script Breakdown and Distribution

We had a short meeting to discuss our burnout project. I suggested using a fixed character so that everyone can use it for this video.

Figure 1.4 Reference

Above was a reference that I found for the burnout animation character.

Figure 1.5 Character Sketches

I did a very simple sketch of the character. I think of drawing an orange with before and after burnout. Before the burnout, the orange face will be bright yellow colour; after burnout, it will turn yellow-brown and the leaf on top slightly went down.

Figure 1.6 Final Character

We decided to use this character for our project created by Khye Qing. 

Figure 1.7 Storyboard Sketch

The part that I would be working on was the first and second parts of the recovery part. I started with some idea sketches on my part. 

Figure 1.8 Storyboard done in AI

Figure 1.9 Storyboard (draft)

Week 5

After deciding on our colour scheme and font, we began our video graphics. We would be using back the same font as the kinetic typography project, which was Singly Linked Font.

Figure 1.10 Colour Scheme

Figure 1.11 Assets

Week 7

As we were concerned about the consistency of subtitles, we decided to not insert the subtitle just for now.  

This was the first attempt on my part. After being given feedback from Mr. Martin, I did some changes to the character position in the third scene because he said the text and character were too close.

Final Outcome

Final Submission:

Youtube Link: https://youtu.be/LrrSnYbEmZY

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Feedback

Week 7

The character and text are too close in the third scene, so the left part is a little empty.

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Reflection

Throughout this project, I'm lucky to have great group members to work together to get this work done. Although at the start we didn't reach out to each other much, after getting along for some time, we started to spend time together discussing the project. 

Groupwork was definitely one of the most important aspects of our project. We would have been unable to accomplish anything if we had not worked together. Even though the design process was broken up into individual pieces, we often consulted with one another.

I also got to learn some animation skills from my other group members in After Effects. It's a good opportunity to learn from each other.