Month 5: Principles of Production Process

Today is my third class in Principles of Production Process. I haven't been able to post much since my boyfriend was admitted to the hospital. He's okay now, so I'm taking the time to update my blog.

So far in this class, they talk about the Production Process and the documents and planning that are required in each. So far, we've worked on branding who we are and discovering a make-shift client project. Luckily for me, I get the practice of actually working for a client. My boyfriend has started a new website: www.gamereview.tv I've been steadily working towards developing his website, and this class is giving me a great starting point. I believe we work up to getting the site's wireframe finished, so that will give me a great place to start in regards to developing his website.

In the past two labs, we have developed our logos, created a branded template and have created a Project Proposal, or the Communications Brief. I've branded myself, or my website, "Creative Zeus" naming it after my dog. Below, I've attached a Project Proposal PDF, which has all three of them available for viewing.

Project Proposal

Lab 1: Branding
In this lab, we basically created sketches of our logo. I feel like mine turned out better than most, only because I've already put several months of thought into the name, what the logo would be, and how I'd like to represent myself. By the end of the class, I had an idea of what I wanted. At home, however, I revised it to what I'm showing you now.

Due by the next lab, however, our "homework" was to create a landscape and portrait template. This is the same template used for the Project Proposal Document. We also needed to pick out a website to redesign. This is where I chose my boyfriend's website, since it has a very basic template.

Lab 2: Project Proposal and Audience Profiles
In this lab, we focused time on creating our logos in Illustrator. I already had mine done in a simple vector black and white format. The three files we had to turn in were a black and white vector, a two-color vector, and a full color vector.

For homework, we were to work on our Project Proposal and Audience Profiles. My Project Proposal was a 14-page description of many aspects of the project. I included real research, graphs and facts supporting my analysis. It's legitimate work that could be used in a real-life situation.

The Audience Profiles were very simple. We basically had to create a profile of a character, or person, that fit the demographic that our "client" is trying to target. You had to have two profiles, a primary and secondary demographic. There's really not much to it. I didn't think it was worth putting up, but I will if people would like for me to.

That pretty much sums up everything we've done to this point. We have our first quiz today, multiple choice based on the Lecture Slides and chapters one, three and ten of our book. And that covers pretty much everything. Enjoy!