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INVESTIGATE

Guiding Questions

Write down some relevant guiding questions - These research questions should be based on software, techniques and the evaluation of similar, existing animations. These questions should guide your investigation and allow you to achieve all of the objectives and reach the highest levels on the rubric.

You need to Answer your own questions as you work through the investigation, The following information should help you. You should not copy these questions. You can use these to help you answer/write your own questions.

Good Luck!

During your investigation you need to........

A. Identify the problem to be solved clarification here

• Explore environmental issues,Select one important environmental problem explaining any relevance to our school community.

• Write down a clear design brief based on the above. Your design brief should include:
  
  
  • Problem / Challenge - A short sentence that describes the main problem to be solved
  • Response - (The Designer's Task / What the successful design will do) - A broad outline of how you intend to solve the problem. What you as a designer must create and what the successful design must achieve.

MYP Rubric:
1-2: The student states the problem.
3-4: The student describes the problem, mentioning its relevance.
5-6: The student explains the problem, discussing its relevance.

Definitions:

describe: To give a detailed account
explain: To give a clear account including causes and reasons or mechanisms. (To write about in detail and include reasons why)
Discuss: To give an account including, where possible, a range of arguments for and against, the relative importance of various factors and comparisons of alternative hypotheses.

B. Develop the design brief clarification here

You should.....

• Look at software/hardware that could be used to create your animations.
• Include a range of sources
• Acknowledge these sources using the MLA format (easybib)
• Use footnotes where appropriate

• Analyse existing animations / cartoon drawings and evaluate them.
• Evaluate a range of software and techniques
• Evaluate the reliability / value of your sources of information

You could...

Work through the Flash tutorials here
Look at the archive of student videos here to get an idea of what can be done with Flash.
As you go through the tutorials, take screen grabs and analyse (Is there anything that could be used in your own movie?)

MYP Rubric:
1-2: The student investigates the problem, collecting information from sources.
3-4: The student investigates the problem, selecting and analysing information from some acknowledged sources
5-6: The student critically investigates the problem, evaluating information from a broad range of appropriate, acknowledged sources

Definitions:

Analyse: To identify parts and relationships, and interpret information to reach a conclusion.
Evaluate: To assess the implications and limitations; make judgments about the value of ideas, works, solutions or methods in relation to selected criteria. To write about your product, an idea or the design process, after carefully thinking, “What is good about it?” and “What is bad about it?”

C. Formulate a design specification more detail here

• create a detailed design specification as a bulleted list.
• Create at least one test to evaluate each story outline against the design specification
• Create at least one test to evaluate each design element  against the design specification (characters, backgrounds)
• Create at least 2 tests to evaluate your final movie against the design specification

MYP Rubric:
1-2: The student lists some specifications.
3-4: The student describes a test to evaluate the product/solution against the design specification.
5-6: The student describes detailed methods for appropriate testing to evaluate the product/solution against the design specification.

You should also

• Use the key questions from the Approaches to learning Area of Interaction  to evaluate your performance during the investigation stage.

– (Taken from the Evaluation objective)

Check the MYP Rubric

Look at the MYP rubric below. This is what will be used to mark your work. Full rubric here

DESIGN PLAN CREATE EVALUATE