Evaluation

This is the link to our first draft video which my parts are at the end:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-gWdUIhpI4

This is the link to our final video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rKZOzoiLVs 

I read the ISLE resource- linked here. This resource basically told me about what evaluations are and how evaluations should be written.

Evaluating is a process of assessing how far your work has met or exceeded the objectives created at the start of the project. You should use your objectives as the structure of your evaluation. Your objective should be the sub-title and then you can start talking about the strengths and weaknesses about the way you met this objective in your work. After this, you should also discuss and suggest actions or ways for improvement.

My Evaluation for MY ROLE:

Aim: Creating graphics for the documentary

Objectives: 

1. Create at least 3 graphics that uses kinetic text or is a unique graph (not just simply a bar graph, pie chart, line graph etc.)

2. Use the skills I have learnt and practised in the weeks prior

3. Preferably use the program- PowerPoint

4. Make sure the files are in mp4 or AVCHD format so that the editor who uses iMovie can access them

5. Graphics must be related to our topic- hunger

6. One graphic has to be animating pictures we took from Feeding Hong Kong and captioning them using kinetic text

7. Has to be of a high quality- pleasing aesthetics, attractive, easy to understand

Evaluation:

Strengths: I achieved everything I wrote above at a pretty good standard. I successfully created more than 3 graphics for the documentary that included kinetic text as well as less seen graphs (3D steps). I certainly did use the skills I have learnt and practised from the past few weeks and learnt new skills during this process. I made sure that all my graphics were things that will contribute to the video because they were facts and statistics from the script, high quality, easy to understand, be appealing etc. Most importantly they had to be in the format of mp4 and not the original WMV so that our editor could be able to include it in the video.

I am pleased with my graphic at 5:27 because I feel like that one single graphic showed some of the basic skills I acquired. However, I think that this graphic should've been put in while this exact line was being said a few seconds ago. 

Weaknesses and Actions for the Future: I think as well as using PowerPoint, I should have also used some online software. I did try to use them and decided not to but I think I should have kept on trying to find a better software so that I could have used a range of medias. Although I did everything on the list, my graphic with pictures from FHK was not included in the final video because it was quite long and wasn't as interesting as I would have liked it to be. I should have remade this to be shorter so that the editor would've put it in. 

In the video at 0:44, my graphic did not match up with the dialogue being said. I was very confused about this because I followed the information the editor sent to me but to improve, I think I need to double check next time so that the data corresponds with each other. 

At 1:57, my graphic looked extremely stretched compared to the original version. This can be improved if I spent the time to check the size and resolution a YouTube video uses so that I could adjust the graphic accordingly. 

I think between 2:40-3:15, I should've added in some type of graphic so that there would be more B footage and would be more interesting than just me talking a lot about Feeding Hong Kong. 

Feedback for the VIDEO:

Things we did well:

• Good editing
• Music was in-sync
• Good sound quality
• Good transitions
• Good composition (rule of thirds) in A-roll

Things we need to improve on:

• Some shots were shaky- refilm or stabilize
• Some audio needs to be louder
• Make sure the statistics aren't all at the back but when the A-roll is going on- show b-roll when talking in a-roll
• Get better b-roll- related to hunger and not just buildings of Hong Kong
• Need one more interview
• Background sound in some a-roll footage

Originality and Creativity (for final video's graphics)

I have talked about my creative process in my "Developing My Information Graphic Outcomes" posts and talked about the changes, adjustments and creative decisions I made. Please read those posts -->

Developing My Information Graphic Outcomes (Pt. 2.3)

Today, I continued my animations of the minimum wage in Hong Kong. I did exactly the same thing as yesterday and this was what my slides looked like:

My next statistic was that 1 in 4 children do not give 3 meals a day. To make this animation, I simply reused my old kinetic text animation. My slide looked like this:

My final animation was to animate a powerful quote about hunger from our interview. I looked through the script and found this, "We will never give up until the world is free from hunger." I really liked this quote because it felt powerful and impactful, therefore, I decided to animate this. I watched a few typography tutorials like these:

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NJEs3Piqjk
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MD9LY6GuY0A
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ua_34E2eQCg&list=PLV8ZAxjnj3o4faiIi0z0K3TgzjnhhsJxh&index=7
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kI39o2K3KD4&t=300s
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_E1wuPYvVGM

I found the first tutorial really helpful and that basically inspired my animation. I firstly wrote the quote in separate text boxes, adjusted the size, font, colour etc. to fit the background of the slide. Next I animated my text similarly to the first tutorial. I split up the quote onto two different slides so that it would fit. On the second slide, I added some sparkles inspired from the second tutorial on the most important words like "free" and "hunger".

My slides looked like this:

My final video with all my graphics:

Developing My Information Graphic Outcomes (Pt. 2.2)

Today, I continued my new information graphics and worked on the next two-three facts:

• More than 1.5 million people suffer from food insecurity- Map of HK, highlighting 1.5 parts of it
• 19% of people suffering from chronic hunger cannot afford food- Moving pie chart that fills up
• Minimum wage in HK- Kinetic text

I started working on the first fact here by finding a map of Hong Kong online and then editing it online to remove any colour or background. Then, I put this onto my slide, made a copy and coloured this copy green. Using what I learnt from the last week to create a zoom animation effect onto a part of a picture, I applied this knowledge to animating this map. Finally, I added my text and animated everything so that it would all fit in nicely. This is what my slide looks like:

Next I worked on the next fact, I decided to do this by doing a pie chart that slowly fills up to show the 19%. At first, I was planning to use an online software instead of PowerPoint to do this. however, every single website I went on either included watermarks, had a limited amount of animations or didn't have this type of graph. Therefore, I decided to create my own on PowerPoint. This took a longer time than any other animation but in the end, I figured it out and I am pretty pleased with my end-result. 

To my the pie-chart even more interesting, I decided to instead of plainly writing 19%, I made this counter that kind of looks like an odometer. This was what the two slides looked like:

Next I started working on the third statistic. My plan was to simply do kinetic text animations to show the minimum wage in Hong Kong but after some thought, I found this too simple and boring. Therefore, I decided to reuse my previous 3D Steps graph for this statistic. I did this by deleting two levels of the steps so that there will be 3 steps to fit how the minimum wage got altered for three different times. On each step, I showed the year it got increased and how much the minimum wage was. Moreover, I included an icon of a person walking up the stairs as the animations went on. I split up this animation onto three different slides but I only completed the first slide out of three today.

The first slide looked like this:

Developing My Information Graphic Outcomes (Pt. 2.1)

On Monday's lesson, we were evaluating each other's draft videos to improve whatever shortcomings we had. Mr Sims evaluated our video and gave us a lot of excellent advice that could help us have an even more professional video. He suggested that the information graphics should not be put to the end like we did but instead throughout the video. By this he meant when there was A-roll going on, B-roll can suddenly come on and then back to the A-roll. However, this also meant that I had to redo most of my facts so that it would fit the script and the animations had to be way shorter so that it would match the speaking.

Following what I did before, I started out by planning the different facts I would do; this was my plan:

Statistics I need to animate:

• 7 million people in 1014 square kilometers- Map of Hong Kong or people popping up
• More than 1.5 million people suffer from food insecurity- Map of HK, highlighting 1.5 parts of it
• 19% of people suffering from chronic hunger cannot afford food- Moving pie chart that fills up
• Minimum wage in HK- Kinetic text
• 1 in 4 children don't get three meals a day- Old one
• A powerful quote from the interview section- Kinetic typography

I started off with the first statistic. Since I am deciding to use a map of Hong Kong already for the second statistic, I decided to use the people popping up idea. By this I meant that when the text comes in, the number of people on the slide keeps on increasing and increasing.

I found an icon of people online, used Photoshop to change the colour of it so that it would contrast against the black background. Next I added my text and animated it using the skills I learnt previously. I decided to add a "shadow" to the word 7 million to emphasize the importance of this word. I did this by copying the text and then changing the colour to a different colour than white (I chose a light blue for this).

My slide looked like this:

Originality and Creativity (for draft video's graphics)

I have recorded my process in the last 4 posts so in this post, I will talk about how I changed my ideas over time.

1.

In this animation, I originally used a completely white world map. However, it was very hard to find a good contrasting colour for the people. Therefore, I decided to edit the white map in Photoshop to make it this light blue colour so that I could make the people white for a good contrast.

2.

I only made one change when making this filled sphere chart. I originally used a green colour theme but then I thought it didn't quite match with the black background so I decided to use a contrasting  yellow colour theme.

3.

I made a few changes when making this 3D Steps graph and when putting the silhouettes on top:

- Colour of the steps, I originally went for a bright yellow again but this limited my colour choices for my silhouettes so I changed the colour to a grey/silver

- Distance from ground of each step and how big each step should be: I experimented with these two options for quite a while until I decided on this

- Colour of the silhouettes: it was hard to choose a colour that I think would look professional and appealing

4.

I didn't really make any changes while making this since I had practice making this type of animation. The only trouble I had was the colour of the elderly and children icons.

Developing My Information Graphic Outcomes (Pt. 1.4)

I continued finishing my graphics; this time with the local facts.

I started off with this fact:
HK has the highest income gap between the rich and poor in any developed economy

Using the YouTube channel I used before (Presentation Process), I found another very interesting chart called 3D Steps and decided to use this chart to show the income gap between the rich and poor. Again, I followed this tutorial step by step to create my own 3D Step. Through this tutorial, I found out about how you can make a 2D shape look 3D really simply and how PowerPoint actually has tons of functions that most people overlook.

My 3D Steps graph looked like this:
(I added silhouettes of poor people and rich people- edited in Photoshop)

My next fact was:
1 in 5 people live in poverty- poverty line is $3275 HKD per month

Similar to the world map animation I did before, I again zoomed into the subject this fact is focusing on- the poor and then presented the fact. It looked like this:

My final two facts were:
1 in 3 elderly struggles to meet their basic nutritional needs and
1 in 4 children don’t get 3 meals a day

I presented them similar to the way I did my trial animations on (text flying in from different directions with a bounce ending). Instead of writing "1 in 3 elderly", I decided to find silhouettes of the elderly, edit them in Photoshop and then highlight 1 elderly out of the 3. I did the same with the 1 in 4 children.

They looked like this:

The black boxes surrounding the text are to make the text more kinetic in the actual video.

My final video:

Developing My Information Graphic Outcomes (Pt. 1.3)

After finishing number three of my plan, I decided to work on number one and two together. I started off with number 1.

Firstly, I made a title which looked like this:

Then animated it by making it fly in together:

Next, I worked on the first fact which was:
1 in 9 people on Earth do not have enough food to lead a healthy life- this is equal to 795 million people

I decided to present this fact with a world map with nine people lined up and then one person is highlighted to show the 1 in 9 people part.

My next fact was:
Asia is the continent with the most hungry people with 2/3 of the 795 million

I presented this using the world map I created right before by zooming into Asia and then giving the information. I had to watch this tutorial to learn how to zoom into a part of a picture with it looking neat, clean and professional. I found this really helpful and this was what it looked like:

After this, I had to research some cool pie chart types for this fact: 
Poor nutrition causes 45% of the deaths of children under five- 3.1 million children a year

I went on this YouTube channel called Presentation Process and looked through their chart making on PowerPoint playlist for inspiration. I found a tutorial to make a filled sphere, this tutorial was again really helpful and I basically relied on this completely to make this chart:

Developing My Information Graphic Outcomes (Pt. 1.2)

Today, I decided to start with the easiest task which is number three from my plan. I emailed my group member when I was making my plan and she promptly sent me the pictures so I didn't have to worry about the 'getting the pictures' part.

I started off with making the title/cover page which looked like this:

I made this by putting a picture of FHK's office in the background, added a borderlines and white circle to the slide, aligned it in the middle and the center then typed my text inside the circle using text-boxes. I decided to change the colour of the word 'Feeding' to make it stand out more as I think this word is pretty important compared to the other words. The font I used was Lato Thin and Bebas Neue and I used contrasting colours against the background.

Then I added the pictures to a new slide and added a light rectangular box to border each slide. I did this to make the slide look less bland and even decided to change the background colour to a black and the elements inside the slide to a white or a grey so that I will have a different colour scheme.

Next, I added my caption describing the picture and added a simple border to the caption again. It looked like this: 

Next, I animated everything with mainly the same animations for each captioning slide (fly in for everything but at different intervals and directions)

Finally, I added some background music, I used a track called Make it Shine and this is a soundtrack that I hear on YouTube videos a lot and I think that the happy mood of this soundtrack will fit with the video graphic. I had to learn some new skills when doing this because it was my first time adding music. I learnt that you had to go to the Audio Tools tab and choose the option of~
- Hide During Show
- Play across slides
- Loop until stopped
- Rewind after playing
to get the perfect outcome.

After fixing some of the transitions to make sure that it moves on without a click of the mouse, I watched the presentation a few times and made some adjustments to the animations, transitions etc. Finally, I exported it as a video (wmv format) and converted it to mp4 format to fit my objective of making sure that my file format is supported my iMovie.

Here is my final outcome:

Developing My Information Graphic Outcomes (Pt. 1.1)

I have started working on my final product today by planning what I will be doing, this is my plan:

1. HUNGER STATISTICS- GLOBAL
Use PowerPoint
- 1 in 9 people on Earth do not have enough food to lead a healthy life which is 795 million people
World map with people lined up

- Asia is the continent with the most hungry people which is 2/3 of the 795 million people
World map highlighting Asia

- Poor nutrition causes 45% of the deaths of children under five which is 3.1 million children a year
Filled sphere 

2. HUNGER STATISTICS- HONG KONG
Use PowerPoint
- 1 in 5 people live in poverty, the poverty line is $3275 HKD per month
Draw a "poverty line" and then people below and above it

- Hong Kong has the highest income gap between the rich and the poor in any developed economy
Draw a 3D Steps graph

- 1 in 3 elderly struggles to meet their basic nutritional needs
Three elderly and highlighting one out of the three

- 1 in 4 children don't get 3 meals a day
Four children and highlighting one out of the four

3. FEEDING HONG KONG PICTURES
1. Ask my group members for the pictures
2. Choose the best pictures
3. Caption them and animate them on PowerPoint

I will be using PowerPoint for all the graphics because I feel the most confident with PowerPoint and I think that I can make good graphics using a program that I am used to.

Understanding and Setting Objectives

Today, I learnt about the differences between an aim and an objective then set my own objectives for the following weeks.

I did an activity which helped me understand the differences between an aim and an objective. Below, I will summarise what I learnt from the ISLE page.

An aim is something general, broad and strategic- for example, to make a graph interactive.

An objective is something that is specific, clearly defined, allows aims to be achieved- for example, to make a graph interactive you can add in an option where the numbers only show if you hover over it.

Copied from website:

Objectives that support these aims would be:

Aim: To be technically proficient in terms of production and post-production

1. To use tripods so that the camera is steady
2. To shoot the same scene from a number of different angles
3. To use a good quality microphone to record the dialogue
4. To use additional lights when filming if necessary
5. To use After Effects to add special effects needed

After reading sufficient information, I did a quiz on what I learnt. My result is listed below:

I think I did pretty well and that this activity really helped me to understand the differences between an aim and an objective because, before this, I would have thought they were exactly the same. I am now all ready to create my own aims and objectives!

Aim: Creating graphics for the documentary

Objective: 

1. Create at least 3 graphics that uses kinetic text or is a unique graph (not just simply a bar graph, pie chart, line graph etc.)

2. Use the skills I have learnt and practised in the weeks prior

3. Preferably use the program- PowerPoint

4. Make sure the files are in mp4 or AVCHD format so that the editor who uses iMovie can access them

5. Graphics must be related to our topic- hunger

6. One graphic has to be animating pictures we took from Feeding Hong Kong and captioning them using kinetic text

7. Has to be of a high quality- pleasing aesthetics, attractive, easy to understand

Later on, I looked at some collaborative dispositions and reflected on some of them.

I looked at this sheet linked here. I chose 3 dispositions from the green section that I think I am are currently good at, 3 task dispositions from the blue section that I think are the most important for my role and 2 dispositions from the red section that I need to work on in group situations.

Green Section

I think I am capable of being a translator because I usually try to explain things to people and make sure they completely understand what the group is talking about. Moreover, I think I am good at being an active listener because I always try to ask questions about new ideas and suggest how we could improve the new idea. Sometimes, I am an excellence controller in the sense that I tell people that I think their work can be of higher quality and tell them how they can improve.

Blue Section

3 dispositions that I think we be crucial to my role as an information designer is the out of the boxer, reality maker and specialist. This is because as an information designer, the graphics I create has to be innovative, creative and original, not only do they have to be inventive, they also have to be something that I can actually make with the particular skills and knowledge I have developed. Therefore, I think that these three dispositions fit in together nicely and is necessary for an information designer.

Red Section

2 dispositions that from the red section that I think I am and need to work on is the perfectionist and maybe also the blocker. I think these two dispositions are similar in a way because they both are rejecting and criticising someone's work because I think it can be improved and perfectioned. I feel like I am a perfectionist regularly whether or not I am in group situations; even with myself, I feel like my work is never good enough even though others say it is. However, I don't really think I am a blocker much because I usually hate it when people do that to me and I don't really see a point in blocking someone's work just because it doesn't fit my opinions.

Confirming my Outcomes

I confirmed my final outcomes in this lesson by emailing my director the work I had done in the previous weeks as an example of what I could do for the final documentary. I emailed her my kinetic typography I did the week before and also told her about how I could put some statistics we collected from our research into a graph format and present it in the documentary.

I am still waiting for her reply but if she doesn't reply, I think I will try to decide my own outcomes by myself based on what I think we are still missing on our video.

I will:
- Caption the pictures we took at Feeding Hong Kong using kinetic text
- Put some statistics into a kinetic text video graphic
- Create an interesting and maybe interactive graph showing the ratio between those in hunger in Hong Kong and those not or other statistics

These are some things that I will decide to do if my director doesn't reply before Wednesday.

Developing Skills and Experimenting with Tools (Part Two)

This week, I developed my previous experimentation animation into a more professional looking animation. I decided to completely scrap my previous one because I wasn't pleased with it- the colour scheme, the font and the animations.

I heavily relied on this tutorial and found it extremely helpful and useful. I paid a lot of effort in this animation because I am hoping to include this in the final video if the director finds it worthy.

Here is my final product:

Steps I took to create that:

1. Deciding on my fonts and colour scheme:

I went to a website I usually use for colour combinations to find a suitable colour scheme

I decided to use fonts that I regularly use: Bebas Neue and Lato

2. Typed up my fact then formatted it:

I typed up my fact using the font and the colour scheme I came up with previously

Next, I adjusted the size of each word to fit the design I wanted to do

3. Animated my text

In this video infographic I only mainly used the fly-in animation and the fly-out animation and occasionally the line motion-graphic tool

4. Made my graphic look more "kinetic"

I achieved this by creating some rectangular boxes and then placing them next to the text so that when the text flies in, it looks like it is suddenly emerging out of nowhere.

5. Export

After I animated everything, played it a couple of times, adjusting bits and bobs etc. I exported the PowerPoint presentation as a video

Overall, I think I made good progress this week, I am pretty pleased with my finished graphic. I think the style of this graphic is pretty eye-catching and will be suitable for the final video. Some things I could improve on for next time is to include appropriate music in the background.

Developing Skills and Experimenting with Tools

This week, I used a software of my choice and used tutorials from the internet to help me develop new knowledge in the software. I used my newly develop skills to produce a visually interesting video infographic.

My chosen software was PowerPoint and I decided to work on the kinetic text technique.

I used this tutorial and found this extremely helpful because it quickly taught me the basics and allowed me to experiment only using the simple techniques in that 6-minute video. However, this video was using the 2013 version of PowerPoint while I only had the 2010 version but this didn't create too big a problem except for the fact that I didn't have the eyedropper tool (copying and applying colours can still be done using colour codes and RGB values but this is more complicated) because I could still easily find everything to complete my task.

In addition, I also used this tutorial. This wasn't as easy to follow as the previous one because the video was pretty quick and didn't include a person voice-over-ing, explaining everything one by one. In this video, I learnt about finding the hidden additional entrance, emphasis and exit animations. Moreover, I found out about creating a nice shadow effect under the text.

Another tutorial I watched was this one. I didn't like this tutorial much because everything was far too quick and wasn't at a good pace which I could follow up with. On the other hand, I still learnt about how you could duplicate the slide to add additional animations and more advanced animation techniques.

I decided to do my first trial video infographic on a statistic on hunger. I chose this statistic:
1/7 of Hong Kong's 7 million population is in poverty as of 2014

This was my end-product-

What I have done:
1. I wrote my fact in a textbox in a basic Calibri font

2. I had to think about the colour scheme of this little animation because one, appearance and visuals are very important in a way that it can lead the eye to the important things; two, as we have learnt in Year 8, colour can convey a message and an emotion as well- blue can mean sad, yellow can mean happy etc. I decided to go with a good dark yellow-orange colour with white text as I thought it contrasted well and could give out a bright aura.

3. I formatted my text: changing the size and font. This again needed some thought because I had to decide what words were the important ones and had to be larger. Similarly, font is important too because it again can evoke emotion, character and meaning. Think about it, if the word "poverty" was tiny and the font was a handwritten one it would evoke a feeling that it is unsignificant, faint and weak. To evoke a strong and significant character, a much bolder font would be suitable. One could even say that each font has its own personality!

4. I started working on the animations. This was mainly the hard task because it was extremely hard to decide which animation I should do and which is the best for the effect I was going for. Of course, I had a look at the some examples on the internet for some ideas on what animations I should go for and how I should format them so that it looks interesting and attract people's attention. This included a lot of trial and error, playing animations then evaluating whether or not it was good or not, changing font size from time to time etc. etc.

5. Finally exporting my PowerPoint into a video as shown above

After actually doing this animation work, I realized that it is definitely not as simple as the basic picture animations you would do to make a presentation more interesting as I thought it might be. Furthermore, I understood that there are many skills in this as I watched in the third tutorial. I also realized that PowerPoint is actually a way more powerful tool than I used to think- it can do pretty much the same thing as After Effects (a program for motion graphics and visual effects) but on a much more junior level.

Preliminary Research

This task is the second task after the first task on roles and responsibilities. The link is here:
https://isle.island.edu.hk/course/view.php?id=1390&section=2

In this task we had to:
1. Make a Bundlr account- this is a tool where I collected my secondary research that can be easily shared
2. Create a shared Bundle with the director to put in our research
3. Brainstorm "Who? What? When? Where? Why? How?" questions with the director on a paper brainstorm, these questions were related to our documentary topic
4. Colour coding closed questions (questions that can be answered with a yes or no) and open questions (questions that require more than a one word answer)
5. Generating closed questions that could help us answer our bigger open ended questions
6. Researching our closed questions on the internet and then inserting the links of useful websites we find on the Bundlr

The director and I came up with a variety of questions relating to the topic of hunger. All these questions are potentially great research questions that can definitely help our project.
This was our mindmap:

From the blue open questions,  I chose a few of the helpful ones and generated further closed questions. I chose~

- How many people in Hong Kong are affected?

- Why does hunger still exist?

- Why are so many people hungry?

Afterwards, I researched online and put all my secondary research into my Bundle which is linked here:

http://bundlr.com/b/hunger-explorations-group-6

I also found a few videos on YouTube that I thought would be helpful too.

What are Information Graphics?

Research Existing Examples of Information Presentation

This was section three of the P&R skill. I accidentally did this task before section two, the link is here:
https://isle.island.edu.hk/course/view.php?id=1390&section=3

In this task, we were put to research existing examples of information graphics and information presentations. I used the diigo boards available on ISLE to help me build my Bundlr below. This Bundlr includes links to information graphic examples. These mostly are in a video format because they are tutorials on how to do this. However, I have found out that some of the tools that these videos are using are not free, meaning that it will be harder for me to actually do this properly.

Bundlr:
Information Graphic Skills and Examples

After that, my task was to find my own example of a graphic that can be effective in our presentation. I did this my Google searching some cool infographics that I like and putting this together in a Pinterest. I used Pinterest instead for this task because I wasn't able to put images onto a Bundlr

Pinterest board on some examples of different information graphics:
http://www.pinterest.com/jaimelamym/information-graphic-examples/

These two graphics I think inspired me the most...

I can use this idea by making something similar to this but splitting the plate up into sections like a pie chart to show what percentage of what people are hungry or malnourished etc. 

This graphic led me thinking that I could represent my data with a symbol like a spoon or a fork or even a plate instead of water droplets or people as seen here. I can also represent my data by the size of objects instead of the number as well. 

All the graphics that I find together enhance the communication in a way. This is because, as the presentation is better, more people will be attracted to it. For example the use of colour can help people notice important information meaning that they will actually be bothered to read. Since it has enhanced communication, it is also a way to raise awareness about the issue of hunger.

This same thought can be applied to our documentary: as the presentation is better, communication can be enhanced meaning that more people will understand our issue and awareness is raised.

Information Designer Roles and Responsibilities

In this lesson, we had to look at a tool which could help us understand what my role of being an Information Designer is. It explained the different IE skills needed, our role and responsibilities and examples of cool information graphics that we eventually need to be able to do.

I did the first task of the Planning & Research skill, the link is here:
https://isle.island.edu.hk/course/view.php?id=1390&section=1

The Role & Responsibilities of an Information Designer-

- Representing information clearly in a creative way

- To support the director in background research

- Identify suitable information that can be presented in the final documentary

- Making charts, statistics, infographics, timelines etc.

From this I understood that my role is to...
- Do research on our documentary topic, and to;
- Present our research in a creative way which includes making infographics, timelines and charts which will be then be put into the final documentary

Creativity

I have been creative in this lesson through exploring different techniques graphic designers use and researching for different information graphic examples.

This is because I had to understand how they did it and how I can apply this to my documentary by thinking creatively.

I done this by looking at the links in this website:
https://www.diigo.com/outliner/8rat8d/Information-Designer-Resources?key=ezadsdw1tx