Week 002 - Project Settlement

Hours: 1-2

We found out that we're doing the project on Friends of Westgate Park. We got some general info off Tom, he said that they were putting together stuff but wouldn't have it till next week, which is fine.

I did a quick google search on Westgate Park in the morning - there wasn't too much there, except for generalities about touristy type information: where it was, and how it used to be a WWII site.

So not really much to do - I discussed very briefly with Peter that we should get cracking on the documentation because we have to hand it over to the client to read - so we should give them as much time as we can get. But I won't worry about it too much, not until we get information/content on the project and organise a meeting time.

Everything feels a bit up in the air at the moment - but I'm sure things will start cementing down pretty soon.

We decided to have a look at the park but due to some scheduling issues with Peter, he said that he would go and take a few shots of it. I thought it was a bit premature to go anyway, I would prefer to first decide what we need to do before heading down... and the weather was looking pretty ominous. :p

So at this stage - a look at the documentation, I think we'll seperate it into Peter doing design work and Gannt chart and I'll cover the rest - as we have done in the past.

I think it'll work out well, we have pretty broad space of skill sets between us - I'm pretty confident with html, and Peter's quite good with design and maybe flash? I'm not sure about that. For the two of us being in the Communication/Multimedia degree and with broad sets of skills - I think we should be okay with this project. The only thing I'm afraid of is that with only two of us, I wonder if we can handle the work load. We did do pretty well last semester - so hopefully everything will work out.

Week 001 - Proposal Sheet.

Hours: 1-2.

Am not sure what is happening with group. Peter and I are happy to stay together - we're together for Studio 2 as well, I think we work well together.

I am a bit worried about whether or not our group will be okay being just a pair, a lot of the client seems to want 3 members.

We spoke to Kall but she said that she didn't know what was happening and that a lot of her friends were without group members - so I said for her to just contact us by the end of Thursday (or at least the weekend) or something and to let know. She didn't. I don't think she contacted Peter, but she didn't contact me.

I had figured that she was going to move on. I had said late last semester that I wanted to do something client-based this semester as I wanted both the experience, the folio work as well as something to put on the resume. Peter had agreed, Kall had said that she would see what we were doing and that if it deterred too far away from what she was interesterd in that she would change groups - she said that she still wanted to do something film-related.

Which is fine, but after last semester, a film in 12-13 weeks + docos was a bit heavy. :)

So I suppose we'll see what's happening.
I just finished typing up our proposal sheet that listed all of the the projects I found interesting. I sent it off to Peter (who's going to hand it in) for him to look at and veto any of those he didn't want as well as make the top 3 of projects we really want to do.

I think we're both leaning towards the virtual receptionist - (neoproducts) we both had a coo at it when Matt brought it up in the lecture. It sounds innovative and something new and creative. Which will be fun, instead of similiar, stock-standard type of projects.

I am just worried that the scope is too big and we won't be allowed to tackle it being only a pair at the moment, though that could change by next week I suppose.