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Materials Needed for Product: 1) Hardware Tools: - Computer. I will need a computer in order for me to create my animation video, create my online website, and my online social media pages. 2) Software Tools: - Bryce 7.1 Pro 3D Modelling Program. I will need Bryce 7.1 Pro because it is the application that I will use to create my animation video, just like all the other students. - Wikispaces. I will need Wikispaces because it is the website that I will use to create my informative online website, which will have all the information related to the project and to the animation video. - FaceBook and Twitter. I will need FaceBook and Twitter because they are the social media websites that I will use to create my own social media pages for the project and the animation video, which will hold discussions and interviews about the project.

Steps to Create Products:

Step Open up Bryce 7.1 Pro. Steps to Create Animation Video: Tools How it is Done Needed To create Search for the program by going to this step, the Start menu on the bottom left you will of your computer. Type in the name need your of the program. When its icon pops computer up, click on it. The program should and Bryce now open up. 7.1 Pro. Importance of Step This step is important because if you dont open up Bryce, you wont be able to create the animation video. Creating this step will make the animation Estimated Time 10 seconds Actual Time 9.6 second s

Adjust Bryce 7.1 the Pro. placement of the Sun

Go to the Sky and Fog menu on the top toolbar of Bryce. Go to the last choice on the Sky and Fog menu (the black rolling ball). Move it

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Omar Ibrahim 10D in Bryce. around and see where you want it to light up. The bright, lighted-up part of the ball represents where the Sun is placed. Click on the rendering green button (green sphere) in the bottom of the left toolbar on Bryce. It is the middle green ball, between the total five green spheres. Play with the lighting, and see where you want it to be. (Note: if you want to, you can change the Sun into a moon, by clicking the small yellow circle next to the rolling black sphere, and when you do so, the Sun becomes a moon. For visual demonstration, watch the following video from 4:39 to 5:35: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v= ZPqmJ7MX36Q Go to the Sky and Fog menu on the top toolbar of the program (next to Create and Edit). Click on the arrow next to the words Sky and Fog and choose the design you want. When you choose it, click on the tick mark on the bottom right corner of the Sky and Fog section. For visual demonstration, go to the following video, but skip to 3:49 and watch till 5:14: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v= ZPqmJ7MX36Q Go to Photoshop CS6. Click File, New on the Photoshop toolbar, and set the size of the image. Change the resolution to 512 pixels/inches. Click Ok on the top right corner. Click on the brush tool in the midsection of the left toolbar. The top toolbar will change. Go to the top toolbar and click on the down arrow video more realistic, alive, attractive, and detailed, which will grab the audiences attention to the video.

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Add a sky Bryce 7.1 of your Pro. own choice to the video.

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Create buildings to represent a city (Should be Step 2)

Bryce 7.1 Pro and Photoshop CS6.

This step is important because it adds details to the overall video and makes it more realistic and

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Omar Ibrahim 10D next to the brush shape and size (on the left side of the top toolbar). A list with various brushes will pop up. Go to the down arrow next to the cogwheel on the top right corner of the pop-up. A new list will appear. Go to the bottom section of the list, and click on Square Brushes, and click OK when asked to switch to square brushes. Now, all brushes are square. Create an eagle-eye view of the buildings, by simply placing squares on the space provided. If the squares get whiter, this means that the buildings there are higher. If they get blacker or greyer, the buildings are lower. This will be your city, so make sure to place a lot of squares, to have many buildings. After youre done, go to Bryce 7.1 Pro, and create a mountain in the left side of the top toolbar in the program. Go to E in the bottom of the right list next to the mountain created (E stands for Edit). An eagle-eye view of the mountain will appear, with a side view on the right and an editing list full of editing tools. To the left of the view, there is a list of tools to use. Go to the very bottom button, that looks like a grid. It will show you the current resolution of the image, and gives you other resolution choices to select for the image. Choose 512, so that it matches the resolution of the Photoshop squares. Now go to the bottom right list of the screen, which is the Editing Tools list. In this list, go to Pictures on the top right of it, and then go to the first precise.

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Omar Ibrahim 10D picture on the left, which shows the mountain from above. Above that image, there a button that says Load. Click it, and you will get a pop-up that allows you to insert or load any pictures you have in your computer, and this is where you will load your Photoshop city, to replace the mountain. When you click on the Load button, simply choose the Photoshop city file, but make sure that it is saved as JPG (you can do this by clicking Save as and changing the file format from .psd to .jpg, when creating the Photoshop city). Click Open on the bottom right corner, after choosing the Photoshop file. Now, under the image of the city in the editing tools section, there are buttons that say copy and paste. Click on copy and paste the image of the city onto the two other images next to it, by clicking Paste on them. To give the city a more realistic and detailed feeling, go to Edit on the top toolbar of Bryce, and click on the arrow next to the word "Edit", where a list of the themes and design will appear. Choose whatever theme you want. Doing so would make the city look more interesting and realistic (Ex: Go to Miscellaneous, and then go to Bladerunner City Map). Once you choose your design, click the tick mark on the bottom right corner of the Edit section. The city is ready. For visual demonstration, visit this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=

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Omar Ibrahim 10D Create a Bryce 7.1 ground for Pro the video (Should be step 3) ZPqmJ7MX36Q Click on the ground in Bryce. Go to the Edit menu in the top toolbar of the program, and choose whatever design you want from there. (Ex: Go to Miscellaneous, and then go to Organic City Map). Once you choose your design, click the tick mark on the bottom right corner of the Edit section. For visual demonstration, visit this video and skip to 3:26 to 3:50: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v= ZPqmJ7MX36Q This step is important because it makes the video more realistic and attractive and detailed, which attracts the audience and makes the video professional and successful. (NOTE: I didnt find any tutorials This step is addressing this, but Im guessing important this is how it can be done). Import an because the image of a regular car from the flying car is following website one of the http://archive3d.net/ important Go to People and Related Ware future section on the right hand corner of transportati the website, and choose Land on methods Transport. Select a design from the that I want many available, and click on it. Make to show in sure that it looks modern and my video, futuristic, not old or usual. After and if it is clicking on it, you will be redirected not there, to a page that shows you a close-up the video is version of it, with some information less on the right, and a download button powerful. at the bottom, along with another button that allows you to add the 3d model. Click the download button, and after it is downloaded, go to Bryce. Go to File and then Import Object, found on the top toolbar of the program, and from there, a pop-

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Create the flying car.

Bryce 7.1 Pro Archive 3D Website

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Omar Ibrahim 10D up will appear, allowing you to choose the file of the car and importing it. When you choose the file, click Open on the bottom right corner of the pop-up, and the car should be in Bryce now. Do the same with an airplane, and grab the model from the same website, but this time, instead of going to Land Transport on the website, go to Aircraft and Space, which is right above Land Transport. Choose your model and do the same, and import it into Bryce. Now, select the airplane, and click on the U letter on the bottom of the right list next to the airplane (U stands for Ungroup). Now, select the body of the airplane, and delete it by the backspace button on the keyboard. Now, the wings of the airplane are left. Select them and drag them to the sides of the car, and group them together with the car, using the G button on the bottom of the right list next to the shapes, and at that point, the wings should be connected to the car. (Again, I didnt find ANY tutorials online for this, but I think this is how it is done, and if it is not, I will play with Bryce in the create stage, and see how I can finish this step). Go to the video slider/cursor at the bottom of the program. Click it, and keep it moving till whenever you want it to stop (this is going to be the duration of the movement of the flying car). Once you want to stop it, simply click on it or on the long indicator it travels through. Now, select the flying car, by clicking it,

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Animate the flying car so that it actually flies in the air.

Bryce 7.1 Pro

This step is important because if the flying car doesnt move at all and just remains in its position,

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Omar Ibrahim 10D and from there, move it to wherever you want it to be, by simply holding and moving it around. After moving the car to wherever you want it to be, click on Add Keyframe on the bottom right corner of the program, which will allow you to create a checkpoint or an area where the animation will end or stop. and also, if you want it to spin or rotate or create any circular motions, go to the Edit menu on the top toolbar of the program, and choose the third shape on the list, which is the cube with the orbits around it. Hold it, and drag around to the left, right, up, or down, to create motion for the flying car. When you move the video indicator to 0 again, and you play the video, the car will go through the movements you created for it. Go to http://archive3d.net/ Go to the People and Related Ware section, and go to People and Body Parts section. Choose a man or a woman from the many designs, and click on it. A new page will pop-up, which will allow you to see the design up close and will allow you to download it, by clicking the download button on the bottom of that page. Go to Bryce, click File and then Import Object which can be found on the left corner of the top toolbar of the program, and now, choose the human file from your computer, and click Open to place in Bryce. The person should now be on the program. Search future skateboard on the video wont be realistic, it wont be interesting, it wont be attractive, and the flying car will be no longer flying, and so, the video wouldnt have any futuristic movements or touches to it.

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Create a human being.

Bryce 7.1 Pro. Archive 3D Website

Create a

Bryce 7.1

This step is important because the person will be riding one of the future transportati on methods, which is the flying board, and so, for the video to be detailed and realistic, there has to be a human controlling the board. This step is

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Omar Ibrahim 10D flying board. Pro. Google Images. Google. Choose your own design. Right click the image, and click Save As. Save the image as .jpg. Go to Bryce, and go to File and then Import Object in the left corner of the top toolbar of the program, and select the design, and click Open once it is chosen. The board should now be in the program.

28/11/2013 important because the future flying board is one of my future transportati on methods addressed in the video, and so, I need to include it, in addition to that if there was only a human floating without a board under him/her, the video would be weird and not complete, which will push the audience away from it. This step is 10s important because if one of these aspects wasnt found, the human or the board, the video would not be complete, because if the human

Place the human on the board.

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Click on the human and drag him/her so that he/she is on the board.

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28/11/2013 wasnt found, the board would be unrealistic, since it will operate by itself, and if there was no board, the human would be floating, and the video would be weird and unrealistic. This step is 4.5m important because if the board and the human were just sitting there, the video would be boring, not realistic, not detailed, and not a lot of work would be put into it, and so, it would lose action, and it wont be a flying board anymore.

Animate the human and the skateboar d and make them travel and fly in the air.

Bryce 7.1 Pro.

Go to the video slider/cursor at the bottom of the program. Click it, and keep it moving till whenever you want it to stop (this is going to be the duration of the movement of the board). Once you want to stop it, simply click on it or on the long indicator it travels through. Now, select the board, by clicking it, and from there, move it to wherever you want it to be, by simply holding and moving it around, and also, if you want it to spin or rotate or create any circular motions, go to the Edit menu on the top toolbar of the program, and choose the third shape on the list, which is the cube with the orbits around it. Hold it, and drag around to the left, right, up, or down, to create motion for the board. When you move the video indicator to 0 again, and you play the video, the car will go through the movements you created for it. Do the same thing for the human, and make sure that the final destination

Omar Ibrahim 10D he will be at is exactly above the board, so that it is realistic, and so that he doesnt, at some point, leave the board or be away from it. Go to Google. Type in Travelator 3d Model. Look at some designs, and choose the one that you want. Click on the link, and download the model (there has to be a download button somewhere for you to use the model). After downloading the model, go to Bryce. Go to File and then Import Object, which can be found in the left corner of the top toolbar in the program. Choose the image of the design, and click Open in the bottom right corner of the screen. at this point, the travelator is imported into Bryce. Heres a link to a good travelator design that I found online: http://sketchup.google.com/3dwareh ouse/details?mid=229468b0f8f2a9d 93ee164a8de7dbc3c

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Create the electronic car station.

Bryce 7.1 Pro. Google.

Add cars on it

Bryce 7.1 Pro. Archive 3D Website.

This step is 1.5m important because the electronic car station is one of my transportati on methods that will be addressed in the video, and so, for it to be created, there has to be a travelator, or in other words, a flat elevator, which we see in malls and airports. The travelator will carry the cars on it. Go to This step is 3m http://archive3d.net/ important Go to the People and Related Ware because if section on the right, and then choose you dont use Land Transport. Choose a few cars the cars, the from the large list, but make sure station will that they are all modern cars, since be useless they will be in the future. Download and the them by clicking the download button audience will after clicking them (the download not

Omar Ibrahim 10D button can be at the bottom of the page when you click them). After downloading them, go to Bryce, and go to File and then Import Object on the left side of the top toolbar of the program, and then choose the files, one by one, and then click Open at the bottom right corner, and then, the cars should be on Bryce. Adjust them so that they sit on the travelator, by holding them and dragging them around, or by making them rotate by going to Edit and then the third choice, the cube with the orbits around it (The Edit menu is in the top toolbar of the program). Go to the video slider/cursor at the bottom of the program. Click it, and keep it moving till whenever you want it to stop (this is going to be the duration of the movement of the cars). Once you want to stop it, simply click on it or on the long indicator it travels through. Now, select the cars, by clicking them, and from there, move them to wherever you want them to be, by simply holding and moving it around, and also, if you want it to spin or rotate or create any circular motions, go to the Edit menu on the top toolbar of the program, and choose the third shape on the list, which is the cube with the orbits around it. Hold it, and drag around to the left, right, up, or down, to create motion for the cars. When you move the video indicator to 0 again, and you play the video, the car will go through the movements you created for it. understand its use.

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Animate the scene so that the cars travel on the station.

Bryce 7.1 Pro.

This step is 6m important because if the cars dont move, the video will lack motion and action, and it will not be realistic and the audience wont understand what is happening, in addition to that the station will no longer be a station, and so, the audience will be pulled

Omar Ibrahim 10D Repeat the process with all cars. Create an Bryce 7.1 underwate Pro. r transporta tion capsule. I couldnt find any tutorials or any models for this part, so I might ask someone who is an expert with Bryce in school or online, or I might just remove this step. away from the video. This step is important because the underwater transportati on capsule is one of my future transportati on methods that I will use in the video, and it shows how transportati on underwater will be like, and so, it is important. This step is important because the capsule will not just swim by itself in water, it will be held by the cylinder, and so, creating it is important. This step is important because if this part doesnt look like the

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I dont know, because I dont know how to create the step or how long it will take to create.

Create a glass cylinder that will carry the capsule.

Bryce 7.1 Pro.

I couldnt find any tutorials or any models for this part, so I might ask someone who is an expert with Bryce in school or online, or I might just remove this step.

I dont know, because I dont know how to create the step or how long it will take to create.

Create water and allow the camera to be inside the water.

Bryce 7.1 Pro.

After creating the capsule and the glass cylinder, go to the Sky and Fog menu in Bryce, found in the top toolbar, and then, choose the small drawing of the cloud with the rainbow behind it, found on the right

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Omar Ibrahim 10D side of the Sky and Fog toolbar. A pop-up will appear, click on Disable Sun Light on the bottom right corner of the pop-up. Click on the tick mark in the right corner of the bottom toolbar of the pop-up. Go to Create on the left corner of the top toolbar of the program, and add a light source, by clicking the first yellow figure in the Create toolbar, found in almost the middle of the toolbar. A pop-up will appear. Change the color of the light source to water blue, so that it looks like the capsule is in water. Do this by going to color settings in the Light Lab, found in the top right corner of the lab. Click on the white square there, and change the color to aqua-blue. Change the Defuse and Specular settings,above the color settings, to 50. Click on the tick mark on the right corner of the bottom toolbar of the pop-up. Go to the video slider/cursor at the bottom of the program. Click it, and keep it moving till whenever you want it to stop (this is going to be the duration of the movement of the capsule). Once you want to stop it, simply click on it or on the long indicator it travels through. Now, select the capsule, by clicking it, and from there, move it to wherever you want it to be, by simply holding and moving it around. When you move the video indicator to 0 again, and you play the video, the car will go through the movements you created for it. Click on the Render button in the capsule is in water, the whole idea of it would be useless, since I designed it so that it is in water, not on land, and so, water is needed to make the capsule underwater.

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Animate the capsule and make it move through the cylinder.

Bryce 7.1 Pro.

This step is important because the capsule needs to move, or else the video is boring, not realistic, and doesnt address its point.

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Omar Ibrahim 10D the video when youre done with it. Pro bottom part of the left toolbar of the program (it is the large green sphere between all 5 spheres). Leave the video rendering. important because if the video doesnt render, you cant use it somewhere else, and it will never be finished, and its quality will be extremely low. Go to Import and Import Movie in This step is the iMovie toolbar, and import the important Bryce movie. Click on the middle because the button in the middle toolbar of narration iMovie that looks like a microphone. makes the Record your narration. At the end of video easier the video, insert a quick slide that for the shows the FB and Twitter and audience to website links, with narration over see and if them. they get confused with something in the visuals, they can listen to what I say. -

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Place the iMovie. video in iMovie and create the narration in it, including the narration of the final FB and Twitter and website URLs at the end of the video. Overall Timing

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Justifications to Modifications: Step 3: I chose to delete this step since as I said in my process journal, when I created my animation, I found out that Bryce auto-generates a

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sky for any animation you start or create, and so, this step was useless, since I didnt need to create the sky. Step 4: I modified this step because it is supposed to be in the position of Step 2, since I need to create a city and a floor first before adjusting the Sun position, because I cant adjust the position of the Sun without something to see the results on, and so, I have to create the city first, to see later how the Sun position would impact the lighting on the city. Step 4: I also changed the part in Step 4 that says go to Edit on the top toolbar of Bryce, and choose whatever theme you want, that would make the city look more interesting and realistic to go to Edit on the top toolbar of Bryce, and click on the arrow next to the word "Edit", where a list of the themes and design will appear. Choose whatever theme you want. Doing so would make the city look more interesting and realistic. This would help the audience because it would make it clearer to them to where to go, instead of clicking on the word Edit itself. Step 5: I modified this step because it should be step 3, since as I explained, I need a city and a floor first before adjusting the Sun, so that I can see the lighting of the Sun on an actual thing or item before just adjusting it randomly. Step 6: I removed the part concerning the airplane wings because the airplane wings didnt work and their colors started changing when I tried to attach them to the car, and so, I deleted that part. Step 7: I modified the blue part in Step 7 because it said that you can just click the timing indicator and click again to stop it wherever you want to, but actually you need to drag the timing indication to wherever you want it to be. I decided to add the green part in Step 7 because when I watched a tutorial, you only needed to just drag the car to another place after moving the timing indicator, but with a more modern version of Bryce, you needed to click Add Key frame every time you moved the car, so that the change is registered in Bryce, and so, that is what I added. Steps after Step 7: I deleted all of these steps because I simply didnt have time to finish them, and so, I didnt create them at all.

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Steps to Create Website: - Go to your Wikispaces Account, by logging in on qataracademy.wikispaces.com. This step is important because without an account, you wont be able to create the website (15s) - Go to the right toolbar on the website (2s) - Click Edit Navigation, found at the very bottom. This step is important because it will allow you to create the new page (2s) - Create a new page, and call it the name of the website, by writing down the name of the page, and clicking Save on the top right part of the website. This step is important because this is where you create the actual site, which will be the center of information for your project (10s) - Go to the page, by clicking on it (2s) - Insert text and photos and videos using the Edit button on the top right corner of the website. This step is important because the website has to have content, and by inserting text and photos and videos, the website has visuals and it has text, which makes it attractive and full of work. - Click Save at the top right corner when youre done doing so. This step is important because if you dont save, all of your work is gone, and so, the website will not exist anymore (Time: Depends on how much work you put into the website) - Overall Estimated Time: 31s + text and images time) Steps to Create Social Media Pages: FB: - Write Pages in the top search bar of the website. This step is important because this is where you will be able to go and create a website. (5s) - Click Create Page. This step is important because this button will take you to the details of creating a website (2s) - Choose the website category, name it and continue (7s) - Write a description for the page (30s) - Comment in the page using the comment section at the bottom of the page (Time: Depends on how much you work on the page)

Omar Ibrahim 10D - Overall Estimated Time: 44s + commenting time) - FaceBook Page Tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmGes4rD3lw

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Twitter: - Create a new Twitter account by entering your details in the Twitter homepage, such as the name, the email, the username, and the password (The signup section, not the login section). This step is important because this is where you enter you data, to create the account/page. Click Create Account. (15s) - Now, you are in the account. Go to your account info, by clicking on your account logo. Go to Edit Profile at the bottom right corner of the account info, and create a description for the page. If you want, add a website link, for the website created. This step is important because the account info are always important for the audience to see, since it will give them further knowledge about the project, its goal, and the animation video. (2m) - Change the page picture if you want to, by clicking on the photo, choosing either to upload or take a photo, and inserting it there. This step is important because a picture is always attractive and interesting, and it allows the audience to make sure that this is the page they are looking for, not something else. (1m) - Tweet and reply in the Tweeting section at the bottom of the page. This step is important because if you dont keep the page active, it will be a failure, no one will comment, no one will benefit, and no one will be part of the project. (Time: Depends on how much you work on the page). - Overall Estimated Time: 3min. 15 sec. + tweeting time) - Twitter Page Tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkWL985S95E These tutorials are extremely fast and simple, and so, they can definitely help you accomplish these quick steps. Overall Estimated Time for All Products: 50 min. and 10 sec. + the commenting and tweeting time. Comparing Time Estimated to Time Available:

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Since we will have 4 weeks of working on this project (8 hours) I think I have plenty of time, compared to the time shown above in creating my products. If I dont have enough time afterwards, I will start focusing more, gaining all of my resources, and working on things needed, while keeping everything organized and neat, so that I dont get confused between files or products or anything else like that. Skills and Knowledge Needed: - I will need the skills of using Bryce and being able to play around with it and creating an animation on it, and using its different features that can help me the most in making my product interesting. Specifically, I need to have the skills of importing images to Bryce, in addition to the skills of moving objects around, spinning or rotating them, and creating animation videos. - I will need the knowledge of buttons and settings in Bryce, such as the Render button, the video cursor, which will create the animation, and the Editing and Grouping and Ungrouping buttons. I will need the knowledge of creating a website and how to use it, create it, add images, add videos, and more. I will also need the knowledge of creating social media pages, and pictures, videos, and comments on them, in addition to descriptions, cover images, and more. Reliability of Plan: I think my Plan is very reliable. I identified my hardware tools and my software tools and how I will use them to create my products. I also created steps for creating the products, and I made them detailed, in addition to that I wrote down for every step when I need to use which tool, and how I will create the step, and why the step is important, and its estimated time to create it, in addition to adding a few pieces of advice here and there. NOTE: The FaceBook and Twitter steps werent very detailed because they were very simple to create and they lead to each other, and so, I didnt find it necessary to make them extremely detailed, since they are already simple. I also compared the time given to the time estimated, which allows me to know if Im on the right track or not. In addition, I talked about the skills and knowledge I need to accomplish this project and finish, so that I know what to do and how to do it. Overall, I think that my audience can follow this Plan and be able to easily create their own similar products without problems.

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