Psychometrics Form
‘Psychometric testing provides a rounded view of a candidate, revealing their logical processes, aptitude for problem-solving, and ability to interpret and analyse a range of data. Just as importantly, they also provide an insight into their personality traits, integrity, and how they might fit into an existing team.’ (Turner, M. 2021).
The first assigned task was to watch some clips from The Good, The Bad and The Ugly a film directed by Sergio Leone and the theme song performed by The Danish National Orchestra on YouTube. The class was then split into groups and asked to complete a psychometrics form based on the orchestra performance. We had to determine what role we would take on from the video and then share it with the group. I didn’t attend the lecture, so I made sure to ask for feedback from classmates in other ways and found out if they agreed with my choices.
After filling out the psychometric form and hearing what others thought of my self-judgement and listening to others, I began to understand why the testing is so important. It helped determine the best project leader for the future assignment, which turned out to be Abbie, who is a lot like the conductor. The testing also relieved a lot about others’ personalities and capabilities which helped determine the next assignment order and brought out new ideas.
Flipbook Development
The team-working storyboard is based on The Very Hungry Caterpillar, a children’s book written and illustrated by Eric Carle. This task aims to encourage working productively as part of a team, ensuring everyone is given the correct place and task to guarantee the highest quality of the individual flipbooks in a short period of time. The children’s book highly inspired the flipbooks, which involved the same overall concept. Abbie was chosen as the project leader and assigned each individual task to the team members. Although I was absent from the lecture, I was given guidance from Abbie on what to produce for the class. The video below shows my flipbook contribution to the project, the caterpillar enters the frame from the left, eats an apple and then exits the frame at the right. This was decided in the lecture and the initial design process was illustrated by the attending team members.
Below is my contribution to the flipbook task, the flipbook shows a caterpillar eating an apple through the core and the rest falling behind as it exits the scene. Completing this task helped me understand the importance of keyframes and how animation works through layers. I realised I made the mistake of drawing the apple later on in the flipbook as I couldn’t match it up with the beginning frames, this is something I will work on in the future. This method of animation is time-consuming and difficult to copy the same frames in a consistent way so that all the frames match and flow together.
References
DR Koncerthuset (2018) The good, the bad and the ugly – the Danish national symphony orchestra (live) (2018) YouTube. YouTube. Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enuOArEfqGo (Accessed: February 27, 2023).
Turner, M. (2021) Psychometric testing in recruiting – is it important?, Picked. Available at: https://www.picked.ai/magazine/why-psychometric-testing-in-recruiting-is-getting-more-important/ (Accessed: February 27, 2023).