This weeks focus was on writing the text for the project book and we are almost finish with the first version of text and the plan for that is to finish the text during the weekend and after that iterate the text for next week. Before we make over the text to the book group.
We have all the structure for the text but there will be some more work with the text.
We also went to spårvägsmuseet to film some clips to our movie but we couldn't shot the clips because of technical problems with our camera so we have to arrange a new plan for making the shots.
This was very unfortunate because everyone had arrange to be there.
We learned a lot this week and one of the main thing we learned was that we have to really check the equipment before we go somewhere and starts filming.
So what should we do for next week. The plan for next week is to finish the text and iterate it so our message with this project get across to the audience and after that we really have to film everything so we could start editing the final movie asap, and we will also start planing the rest of our final presentation for december 7.
Friday, November 16, 2012
Thursday, November 15, 2012
Week 46: An Audience of One
This week we have critically conducted interview questions that has been sent out to a few valuable people in the business, from who we have gotten one answer so far. Tomorrow (friday) we will have a phone interview with Olle Lidbom.
We have also collected answers from our survey and are just about to interpret these. We have had a good start in writing our chapter for the book and the work has been well divided between us for continues work on that.
We have set a personal deadline for our draft in the beginning of next week so we will have plenty on time to edit before the actual deadline. What we are about to do next is to interpret our results from the survey and interviews and continue writing. After that we are going to work more in detail on our final idea and create user scenarios for the final presentation.
Week 46: MagZone
What we have done:
What we will do:
We spent most of the time after preparing for the mid crit with writing the report for our idea. We talked about the feedback we got received at the mid crit and how we could deal with some of the issues in terms of concept and on what we should emphasize on for the final presentation to be convincing.
We're now almost done with writing and will have around a week to edit the text and do the finishing touches. We used Osterwalder's business model canvas to create a picture of the business model for MagZone that will be explained further in the report.
Other than the report we've been focusing on the film we want to make for the presentation. We worked on a script and a shot list of things we want to include in the film. The overall structure and idea is done so we started looking for a camera at KTH that we can use for the shooting.
For the idea we're still trying to get feedback from industry officials and also reached out professionals in mobile app development. Their feedback so far has been very positive towards the idea and they helped us identify possible issues with the solution.
What we will do:
The next week we will be working on the final report and create the images that we want to include in our chapter in the book. Furthermore, we would like to start shooting the movie as soon as possible, but that largely depends on the equipment and the cast. Additionally we will start to outline the final presentation and adapt the content we have so far and create new content for the presentation.
Problems encountered:
Problems encountered:
We have a really nice idea for the film that we want to shoot, but there could be problems in terms of proper equipment and casting for our main role. We're still searching for a woman that wants to participate in our movie and explain the service in front of the camera.
Changes in the project:
Changes in the project:
There have not been major changes in the project, we're just spending quite some time on the details of the idea and those are the only areas where we've changed something in some aspects.
Week 46: MAGi
What we have done:
This week our main focus was on the upcoming work in the second half of the project. We reflected on the critique we got from the “jury” at the mid crit and discussed how we could improve, strengthen and clarify our link to magazines. Furthermore, we discussed and considered what could have been done better in the mid crit presentation and what we can take out of the critique to optimize our final product.
There is plenty of work to be done. We chose week 48 to shoot our scenes for the film. This gives us a few days to organize, plan and prepare the film shooting. We already have a film location and hired two fellow students as actors. In our last meeting we discussed a rough idea of our script and how we want the film to look like.
Since the deadline to submit the book chapter approaches, we structured and discussed how we could best present our product in the book. Then, we divided the workload and agreed on an internal deadline to join our texts. We collected and compiled the general trends we want to offload to Daniel for the book intro and picked out our project-specific trends and scenarios that we will explain in our book chapter.
What we will do:
We are planning to meet three times next week. Our internal deadline for the book chapter is next Sunday, consequently we will spend most of our time writing the texts and doing further detailed research.
After we have joined our texts, we will work on the script and the preparations for the film shooting. As our product is mainly focussed on tablet usage, we will have some shots where we need a screen design for the shown tablet. As soon as the script and a shotlist is finished, we will start designing these screens to have them ready for the shooting.
This Friday we will have a telephone interview with a leading professor and developer of the eye tracking system at the Fraunhofer Institut in Illmenau, Germany. We hope that he can answer our questions and give us some insights on the future of eye tracking systems. Additionally, we will contact an expert who does research on speech recognition, interpretation and synthesis.
Problems encountered:
One problem that might come up is the organization of cameras, microphones, lights and other equipment for the film shooting as we don’t have the money to rent professional equipment. Apart from that, no big problems have been encountered this week. We have a very tight schedule and lots of work is left to do but we are convinced that we will get all done till the final presentation.
This week our main focus was on the upcoming work in the second half of the project. We reflected on the critique we got from the “jury” at the mid crit and discussed how we could improve, strengthen and clarify our link to magazines. Furthermore, we discussed and considered what could have been done better in the mid crit presentation and what we can take out of the critique to optimize our final product.
There is plenty of work to be done. We chose week 48 to shoot our scenes for the film. This gives us a few days to organize, plan and prepare the film shooting. We already have a film location and hired two fellow students as actors. In our last meeting we discussed a rough idea of our script and how we want the film to look like.
Since the deadline to submit the book chapter approaches, we structured and discussed how we could best present our product in the book. Then, we divided the workload and agreed on an internal deadline to join our texts. We collected and compiled the general trends we want to offload to Daniel for the book intro and picked out our project-specific trends and scenarios that we will explain in our book chapter.
What we will do:
We are planning to meet three times next week. Our internal deadline for the book chapter is next Sunday, consequently we will spend most of our time writing the texts and doing further detailed research.
After we have joined our texts, we will work on the script and the preparations for the film shooting. As our product is mainly focussed on tablet usage, we will have some shots where we need a screen design for the shown tablet. As soon as the script and a shotlist is finished, we will start designing these screens to have them ready for the shooting.
This Friday we will have a telephone interview with a leading professor and developer of the eye tracking system at the Fraunhofer Institut in Illmenau, Germany. We hope that he can answer our questions and give us some insights on the future of eye tracking systems. Additionally, we will contact an expert who does research on speech recognition, interpretation and synthesis.
Problems encountered:
One problem that might come up is the organization of cameras, microphones, lights and other equipment for the film shooting as we don’t have the money to rent professional equipment. Apart from that, no big problems have been encountered this week. We have a very tight schedule and lots of work is left to do but we are convinced that we will get all done till the final presentation.
WEEK 46 - Future of magazine distribution
What we have done: We have divided the group so that two of us are focusing on creating the movie and two of us are focusing on the book chapter. Robin is going to be the leader of the book chapter and will work together with Olga, whereas Sebastian and Sara will be doing the movie. For the movie, we have been looking into several options, such as filming, animating and stop motion. We finally chose stop motion as we think this will be the easiest way to communicate our idea without encountering too many technical difficulties.
What we will do: We are going to start writing the book chapter and have it finished for Wednesday so we can proof read it for Thursday. We are also going to begin with the stop motion movie and make every scene, as well as try out different settings for the camera and how to take the photographs and set the pictures/second in a good way.
Problems encountered: Our main problems have been with the stop motion movie, as none of us have been working especially much with making film or for that matter stop motion, but after spending a lot of time youtubing, googling and discussing we now feel a bit more confident on how to do the movie (even if there are still many question marks)
Changes in the project: Our project has been rolling pretty straight forward and we’ve been productive during the meetings. The only real changes in the project have been dividing the labour and coming up with new ideas for the movie.
What we will do: We are going to start writing the book chapter and have it finished for Wednesday so we can proof read it for Thursday. We are also going to begin with the stop motion movie and make every scene, as well as try out different settings for the camera and how to take the photographs and set the pictures/second in a good way.
Problems encountered: Our main problems have been with the stop motion movie, as none of us have been working especially much with making film or for that matter stop motion, but after spending a lot of time youtubing, googling and discussing we now feel a bit more confident on how to do the movie (even if there are still many question marks)
Changes in the project: Our project has been rolling pretty straight forward and we’ve been productive during the meetings. The only real changes in the project have been dividing the labour and coming up with new ideas for the movie.
Week 46 / MAGnify
Group name: MAGnify
What we have done: During this week we have been doing a lot of brainstorming in order to come up with the idea of movie for the final presentation. And we succeeded! We found a great and interesting idea for the movie that will include both real shooting and developing an interface of our platform. We have scheduled the timetable of shooting and cutting and created a storyboard. We have also been thinking about the structure of the text for the book and the structure of the final presentation.We have decided to follow Daniel’s advice and not to include business strategy into final presentation, but still to describe it in the text. So far we have 4 pages of the text for the book. As far as we have pretty tough schedule we have divided all the amount of the work between us and pointed out the “responsible persons” for shooting a movie, the text and creating interface.
What we will do: Starting next week we will shoot a movie and start cutting it, continue writing text and create interface of our platform.
Problems encountered: So far we have only one problem with DELFI – we are not allowed to rent camera, because we could book the stuff only for certain courses (and Future of Media is not on the list). But the IT-guy told us that he is going talk to Daniel and they will try to solve our problem till Monday.
Other: We had a lot of fun with brainstorming part! =)
Friday, November 9, 2012
Week 45 - midcrit week
This week our main focus was on the
upcoming mid crit!
We started the week by joining our forces
and discussing the future of our idea and how to get you and our fellow
students to understand our technology and idea without throwing to much
technology information and background on you. While at the same time describe
what this will do to the format and consumption of magazines in only 10 min.
We started editing our film material to see
what we need to improve and what we need to ad. We also edited a short rough
version of our concept movie just to give you a better idea of how this will
change the future of Magazines.
The project is starting to take more and
more shape we have left some initial ideas and gained some new. We have seen
this project as a flight and we are now approaching our destination and started
our decent .From being up in the sky with infinite possibilities and a wild
imagination we now have a concrete plan and vision on where we are going with
this.
The outline of the text have been
structured and the different parts have been distributed among the members of
the group according to our strengths and interests. Writing is in full
progress!
We will use the valuable comments gathered from the mid crit to
further develop our project!
Plans for next week are to continue
writing, shooting more material for the movie . Trying to get access to a
railcart to shoot in , we will try contacting sporvagnsmuseet! We will also try
to discuss this project with Haibo Lee.
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