FAO CGAA Year Two - '1 Becomes 2' Refresher

You are to respond imaginatively to the soundscape allocated you at time of briefing. It may inspire an environment, character(s), story or gaming concept. The musical extract might be included in the final submission as a soundtrack or might serve only as a starting point for further development. Your response might be entirely abstract and synesthetic in line with Fantasia’s Toccata and fugue in d minor or the work of Norman Mclaren.

Whatever your approach, you must demonstrate how the ‘soundscape’ has driven your creative response. Your workflow should follow the pipeline of tasks established by your year one curriculum -– pre-production, production, post-production - with each stage clearly ‘unpacked’, archived and reflected upon via your creative development blog.

Your creative development is to be edited and readied for publication in the form of a professionally printed ‘The Art of…’ book. There are numerous online companies that provide this service, a selection of which are listed below.*

www.blurb.com

www.bobbooks.co.uk

www.photobox.co.uk

You should be ambitious, investigative, and self-directed. Where necessary, you should expect to supplement your existing technical skills via online tutorials. You should also use this opportunity to revisit your Stage 1 technical tutorials.

Competition entries will be judged by a panel – not by your tutors!

1^st Prize – Wacom Intuos4 Graphics Tablet

2^nd Prize - £50 Vouchers (TBC)

3^rd Prize - £25 Vouchers (TBC)

The winning entries will be screened for the new first years in the early part of the academic year. In addition, winning students will be asked to present and discuss their work.

Deadline for ‘1 Becomes 2’ competition entries is Friday 17^th September 2010

Please note - this work is not part of your formally assessed units.

And the last word? Be Amazing!

* You'll need to have your 'Making Of' publication ready in advance of the deadline, as the printing companies will require time to process, produce and post back your finished books. You should aim to have your artwork/book pages ready for printing by the end of August. I suggest you make enquiries re. the turn-around for the printing of the books today...