Adjusting to working online
As of this week, our project is adjusted to accommodate working from home per the CMU policies implemented as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. We are doing our best to look out for each other and hope everyone reading is OK.
The team will be meeting on Zoom Monday, Wed, Friday at 9:00 am. Instructor meetings will continue as usual. We’ll be staying on Slack during core hours, on Slack less strictly during personal hours.
Direction for the project
We’ve opted to keep what is unique about our project – the focus on live performance, despite not being able to test because of social distancing policies.
Instead of prototypes, we’ll focus more on ideas, which can be a beneficial thing for the creativity for this project.
Format for deliverables
- Disney imagineering competition-style slides, detailing design, perhaps with concept art, tech specifications
- Scope: We will scope as if a team with sufficient funding and time would be available. We would go beyond the scope for an ETC team and note that in our design docs.
- Completeness: The design will necessarily be incomplete due to inability to test with live performers and guests. We will take the prototype as far as possible, and take advantage in the freedom that working in theoretical terms proves us.
Detailed format for slide deliverable (slide template here):
Adjusting how we work with our project partners
To ground the ideas for technology, and to encourage serving a narrative purpose with technology, we are changing the starting point of our process from an idea from us to a narrative by our project partners. We will look at a narrative by our partners and search for moments of agency and technology within that context.
The benefit of preparation we’ve done in the first half of the semester is becoming apparent: we needed discussion to be on the same page in terms of agency, and we needed the review of examples from the industry to better understand what our project partners need.
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Production
We’ve prepared a new schedule, tentative until we speak to our instructors and partners:
Overall schedule:
Weekly schedule:
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