Heading into spring break…
We’re making sure we take a break in spring break but had a team meeting and left ourselves topics to think about:
- List of ideas
- Can any of the problems from immersive theater Sam and Gab suggested to us, be solved by one of our ideas?
- List of technology
- We have a better idea of the type of technology that would help facilitate guest agency; we could update or start a new list of technology
- Final article
- At the end of the semester we plan to write up our process into an article; to prepare for that, we are starting the document (permission required) now and will add to it throughout the remainder of the semester
Prototyping pipeline
Our pipeline continues and will continue to evolve! Decisions we need to make:
- Get feedback before building?
- It seems like it would help us to get feedback early, when we are at the concept stage, about which ideas are most promising for prototyping.
- Start from the narrative?
- It’s important that the tech does not become like a gimmick – that is, unnecessary to the narrative or causing the narrative to bend over
Prototyping 2 Feedback
We weren’t able to meet with Sam and Gab this week, but we got written feedback (permission required) for prototype 2!
Our takeaways:
- The application for this prototype seems limited because the interaction is on the surface simple and unearned
- To provide a powerful moment of agency, guests require more obstacles to finding the hidden information
- We could potentially address this if we can solve a tech problem, where we need to hide the object completely and only show it in the photo album – or when it’s printed
- Possibilities lie in what the guests do with the discovered hidden information – whether they hide it from each other, or if the information contradicted or reinforced the story of a live performer
- We thought this was brilliant and totally in line with some of the possibilities we thought of, so whether this prototype goes forward or not we’re excited to talk more!
-Team
Production
Halves
We had our halves presentation today! We tried to emphasize that everything we did, from our prototype to research to taxonomy, was centered around our research goal to combine agency, performance, and technology in a meaningful way.
Meetings
We’re trying to improve the way we have meetings; we implemented rolling meeting notes with meeting times, attendees and agendas. This method was directly based on what we learned from the ETC’s Production and Leadership course.
Long meeting times seemed to be an issue earlier in the project because it has the feel of a lot of effort for no results. We think noting meeting times might help morale because it shows our meetings can conclude on time; furthermore, using an accumulating rolling meeting notes and highlighting decisions we made in the notes might help us see the progress we make with each meeting and prevent losing sight of decisions already made.
-Tina & Healthy