1. Japanese Word of the Week (11) Nani 何 [na-nee] Mizu o kudasai?

2. Have You Seen These Men? Cigar Rocky Balboa Some lameass gangsters 3 foreigners and some douches

3. Aims & Objectives Aims: Students will understand styles of market and production research. They will use both to focus upon character design for their game. Objectives: All students will identify 2 forms of primary/secondary research Most students will identify 2 forms of primary/secondary research and explain their function Some students will identify 3 forms of primary/secondary research, explain and use their functions for assignment purposes

4. Research and Pre-Production 1 February 2010 Unit 1 Research Techniques for Media Industries Unit 2 Pre-Production for Media Industries

5. Research Techniques 1 Understand the purposes of research in the media industries 2 Be able to apply a range of research methods and techniques 3 Be able to present results of research.

6. Pre-Production Techniques 1 Understand requirements for production 2 Be able to obtain resources for production 3 Be able to apply production logistics.

7. Have You Finished The First Assignment Yet? Watch the blog, I’ll be hinting and tipping this week! From primary to production research, I’ll be showing your some good tips to get your D!

9. Understanding your team – efficiency and productivity

10. Understanding your character – design narrationWhat is it worth to you?

12. RAJAR, BARB, ABC

13. Charts- Music, Games, FilmsAlways scratch the surface, don’t take information at face value…

15. Background

16. Skills

17. Experience

19. How could make them better?

20. Do you look around you?

21. Can you spend time observing and dissecting?FACT: The 2008 re-make of Ultimate’s JetPac by RARE involved a lot of retro stats and archived research into the original game

22. Audience Research

23. People Research Activity Write a list of core talents you might be looking for in people to work on your second year FMP. Ask the people sitting next to you what their preferred talents are in game development and build a list from that. Tip: You shouldn’t list any more than 5 at this stage.

24. Results FAIL Did you wonder what working with these people would be like? Or did you assume that it would be ok? Our current second years did this same activity last year, and failed to take their results on board this year.

26. Initial ideas – carry a notepad around and watch people

27. Draw or sketch movement, expressions or even write down random words

30. Think about the impact that all of your choices will have on your education, your peers and yourself! You’re taking chances and risks that may not pay off.

32. “Did you say you had evidence of this working? I can’t see it.”

33. “Someone has already made this game, it’s called Gears of War.”

34. “I’d never buy that game”

35. “Lol.”

36. “What the hell? This demo doesn’t even play!”

37. “This is glitchy as hell.”

38. “I’d never make this game, ever.”

41. The key research elements for game design

42. Making plans and recording themHave we met our outcomes?