design&plan stage

Design Stage

Evaluating storyboards

Design 1:

Test Name Expected

Outcomes

Actual

Outcomes

Comments/improvements

needed?

Does the video have a title? Yes Yes

Does it give a clear

description of the

percutaneous coronary

intervention?

Yes Yes

Does it contain at least 10

facts?

Yes Should be

yes (have

not written

in details)

Does it have a good control of

the length of each scene?

Yes Yes

Does it contain a combination

of text, image and scene?

Yes Yes

Does it have sound? Yes Yes

Does it have a background

sound which lasts throughout

the video?

Yes

Do the texts have too

large/small font size?

No No

Does it last longer than two

minutes?

Yes Yes

Does it last longer than six

minutes?

No No

Is the information too difficult

to understand?

No No

Is it scientific enough? Yes Yes

It there only text on screen? No No

Do you think that the

background sound is

uncoordinated to the scene?

No

Does it compare the


intervention with the other

similar technologies?

Yes Yes

Does it talk about another

technology in details?

No No

Do you think the video is too

serious?

No No

Is the information in the

video useful?

Yes Yes

Design 2:

Test Name Expected

Outcomes

Actual

Outcomes


needed?



description of the


intervention?

Yes Yes


facts?

Yes Yes



Yes Yes



Yes Yes




the video?

Yes



No No


minutes?

Yes Yes


minutes?

No No


to understand?

No No

Is it scientific enough? Yes No It might be a little bit confusing.

It is not a very good choice to

introduce PCI in chatting.



background sound is


No

Does it compare the




Yes No



No Yes It does not compare PCI with

other technologies, but it

explains in details about different

types of angioplasty which is

useless here.


serious?

No No


video useful?

Yes Yes

Design 3:

Test Name Expected

Outcomes

Actual

Outcomes


needed?



description of the


intervention?

Yes Yes


facts?

Yes Yes



Yes Yes



Yes Yes




the video?

Yes



No No


minutes?

Yes Yes


minutes?

No No


to understand?

No No

Is it scientific enough? Yes Yes



background sound is

No


Does it compare the




Yes Yes It has compared PCI with the

other technologies very well

because it highlights the

advantages of PCI.



No No


serious?

No Maybe yes It is always talking about the

technology.


video useful?

Yes Yes

Design 4:

Test Name Expected

Outcomes

Actual

Outcomes


needed?



description of the


intervention?

Yes Yes


facts?

Yes Yes



Yes No The first scene is not very

important, but it is too long

Does it contain a combination Yes Yes





the video?

Yes



No No


minutes?

Yes Yes


minutes?

No No


to understand?

No No

Is it scientific enough? Yes No



background sound is


No

Does it compare the




Yes No



No No


serious?

No No


video useful?

Yes Yes

Evaluating the chosen design

My chosen design is Design 1. I choose it because it is my favourite design, which has a

clear storyline and meets all the specifications. This design gives a clear description of the

percutaneous coronary intervention, showing its advantages by comparing it with the other

similar technologies, and it also remembers not to talk about another technology in details,

otherwise it will make the audience fell confused. Moreover, I think Design 1 is a good

choice for me to make my product, because it is introducing the technology through a story,

instead of just give scientific explanations of the use of the chosen technology. Furthermore,

this design includes a combination of text, images, and animation, which will make the

product much more interesting.

Aiming to create a better product, I also decide to put some elements from the other

three designs into Design 1. For example, I would like to use a rule of narrator in the story to

explain to the audience in a more direct way, just like what I did in Design 3. Furthermore, I

might use one person’s point of view to make the audience identify with the characters, as

the method I utilised in Design 4. According to me, all four of my designs could be improved

much more; nevertheless, I think Design 1 I the best one in these four, and perhaps I can still

keep the advantages of the other three, trying to put them into Design 1, if they will fit. I will

try to keep developing my chosen design till the day I start to film it.

Plan Stage

GANTT Chart

Prototype design 1Prototype design 2Prototype design 3Prototype design 4

Evaluation of DesignsGANTT Chart

Step-by-step PlanCreate Product

Inviting the ActorsPreparation of Film

Create the Title PageFilming scene 1

Filling the gap between scene 1 & 2Filming scene 2Filming secne 3

Making Short AnimationsFilming scene 4Filming scene 5

Put the Scenes TogetherAdd Sounds to the Film

Check the Finished ProductProcess Journal

Test PlanEvaluate

Contingency TimeFeedback

Improving the Product

0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26

This is a Gantt chart which aims to show how I will organise the time for my designs and

the product. In the left hand side of the Gantt Chart, I have listed 27 different tasks. Those

are the important tasks that I need to do in this section. Moreover, the small red bars are

showing the starting time, finishing time, and duration for each of the tasks. From the Gantt

Chart, it is easy to see that I plan to spend 12 hours on actually making the product; and it

will takes me about 25 hours to finish the whole section of work. The reason why I make this

Gantt Chart is that it presents the time which I should take to finish the product, reminding

me about every small sections in this stage, and it can help me to get myself organised. The

Gantt Chart reminds me about the process rate.

Step-by-step Plan

Date Time

taken

Task Tools/materials

used

11.7.2013 (lesson) 1 Make a GANTT Chart Excel, Word

11.12.2013 (lesson) 1 Do a step-by-step plan Word

11.12.2013 0.5 Invite the actors

Briefly introduce my story to the

actors, explaining what they need

to do

Pen, paper, and the

storyboard design

11.14.2013 (lesson) 1 Prepare for making the film

Write up a script of scene

Open Windows Movie Maker,

starting to create a title page

Save it on the computer and USB

Firefox,

Word/paper,

Windows Movie

Maker, USB

11.16.2013 (at

home)

2 Filming scene 1: a woman is

watering her flowers, and then

she falls down immediately

Filming scene 2: the woman is

brought to hospital, and her

daughter comes to see her

Filling the gap between scene 1

and scene 2 using Movie Maker

Find some sound effects

Camera, PC,

Windows Movie

Maker, Imaxthon

Explorer

11.17.2013 (at

home)

2 Filming scene 3: the conversation

between the doctor and the

Camera, PC,

Windows Movie

Maker, Flash maker,

woman’s daughter

Add short animations to the video

Find some similar products and try

to get suggestions from them

Imaxthon Explorer

11.19.2013 (lesson) 1 On the internet, find some videos

that introduce the procedure of

angioplasty or PCI

Firefox, YouTube

11.19.2013 (at

home)

1 Filming scene 4: the procedure of


intervention

Camera, white

cover, Imaxthon

Explorer

11.21.2013 (lesson) 1 Filming scene 5 in the school (try

to use the roof as a background

scene

Add an ending page to the video

using Windows Movie Maker

Camera, tripod,

Firefox, Windows

Movie Maker

11.23.2013 (at

home)

1 Put all the five scenes together in

a video

Fill every gap between two scenes

and make them look smooth

Windows Movie

Maker

11.26.2013 (lesson) 1 Add sounds to the film

Add a soft background sound

Add different sound effects

USB, Windows

Movie Maker

11.28.2013 (lesson) 1 Check the product

Make sure it is finished

Windows Movie

Maker, Word

11.30.2013 (at

home)

2 Check the finished product once

again

Use the test plan to examine it to

see whether it is a good product

or not

Windows Movie

Maker, Word

12.1.2013 (at

home)

2 Evaluate the product

Justify what I have done for the

product, and how I did that

See if there is anything that I can

still improve

Think about how I can do even

better next time

Word

In the Step-by-step plan, I have set the date for accomplishing the various tasks; and I

have again mentioned the durations. In the date column, I have also shown that whether the

task should be done in lessons or at home. Regarding the tasks, different from the one I had

in the Gantt Chart, here I have explained each of my tasks in more details, trying to write up

a procedure for them in which is aimed to help me have a better understanding of what I

need to do while I am actually creating the product. For the tools, I have listed all the

programme and software that I will need for that particular task; I also put the materials I

will going to use, such as camera, notebook and paper. I think my Step-by-step plan is clear

and precise; and I will be able to follow my plan to create a good product.

This is not my exactly original plan; I have made some changes after the lesson I started

to make my product, because I realised that my invited actors were my parents, who really

could not help me film it during lesson times. Therefore I had to rearrange my time plan and

move all the filming parts to my own time. And then I put some other works which would

last less time than filming into those days that I would have lessons. Therefore, my present

Step-by-step plan is the above one, which I am now very pleased with. If I could improve it

more, perhaps I will write more details about the tasks, and maybe give more time to film

Scene 4 and Scene 5, which I think that the time is a little bit pressing.

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