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Week 14
This week’s goal is to assemble everything together, including the finalized animation, the finalized A Version of the narrative, the tech, and is ready for the ETC Fall Festival, which is a big stress test day for us. Finalized Animations This week, we finalized our animations. Finalized A Version of Videos Here is the link…
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Week 13
This week we received a lot of critiques for SOFT including tree adjustment, still implementing hardware, created spinning disk animations, and refining guitar-playing animation, re-recorded Chapter 2 for some text edits. Tree Adjustment One of the major critique from our client is to change the look of the trees because they looked too surreal. Therefore,…
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Week 12
This week we finalized most of the copyright issues, finished up most of the video editing for 5 chapters, and prepared for SOFT opening. Copyright Issues Most of our video contents are now cleared with copyright. We are still currently waiting on 2-3 clips. Videos 5 Chapters are finished and ready to be critiqued for…
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Week 11
This week, we edited more videos, finished up the young John Hurt animations, used laser to engrave the timeline, finished making all the static transition audio, but got a little stuck in the transition inplementation. We also bought various audio hardware so we can really make audio happen in the next two weeks. Videos Young…
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Week 10
This week, our goal is to process the feedback from the playtest, work on the font and preparation for the laser cut, prepare for the final video edit, and create an audio mix demo. 1. Playtest Feedback The result from our playtests is positive. The interaction, after getting rid of the second knob, made a…
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Week 9
Overview: This week we worked on the script with our client, made changes to the knob and interior structure, made some design changes based on the result from the playtest, and created surveys for the upcoming playtest. Art Update: After getting some critique from faculty members, we decided to experimented just a little more on…
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Week 8
Overview: This week, we are almost finalized with our narrative text. We got our hands on two radios and we started the process of taking them apart to see how we can modify them. We managed to playtest with high school students with our old radios. Radio Modification Process Playtest This week, we conducted our…
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Week 7
Overview: This week, we come back from the Mississippi Trip and we spent most of our time organizing the media we obtain from the trip, as well as preparing ourselves for the Halves Presentation. We also started our production process. Trip Photos Memorial walk photo Halves Presentation Plan For Next Week
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Week 6
This week’s goal is to prepare ourselves for the trip to Mississippi. This includes finishing up the 3D Character of John Hurt, edit a video to bring down, finishing up the brown-box prototype, record the voice of the narrative texts, and prepare shotlist for the media we want to shoot during the trip. Art Assets…
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Week 5
Overview: This week, we started creating a narrative (voice over script) for the project. We also finished most of the objects including Guitar, one of the environments. We finalized using black and white art style, and we continued to explore the software and hardware. Narrative Sample: “Just as the Civil Rights Movement touched the lives…
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Week 4 – Content Producing
This week, we spent most of our time preparing to pitch our two designs to the clients. After the pitch, we received feedback from the clients and made content adjustments to match Client’s requirement. We also managed to decide the art style for the contents. By the end of this week, we have started hardware…
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Week 3 – Quarter
This week, we are working on 1/4 presentation. The feedback received from the presentation led us to think about our current designs and how to make them better. By the end of the week, we double-checked with Mary Frances on the information we have gathered so far. We also generated a list of hardware that…
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Week 2 – Research And Ideation
This week’s focus were research and ideation, including the generation and refinement of multiple versions of our early design prototype, as we aimed to solidify these iterations for the upcoming quarters. These coordinated efforts have played a crucial role in advancing our project’s development and ensuring it remains on track. 1.Research The research part included:…
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Week 1 – Overview
This week, our activities primarily revolved around meetings with faculty members and our team to maintain alignment on project objectives. In addition, our producer, Sy, held a constructive discussion with Mary Frances Hurt, contributing significant insights to our ongoing work. At last, we came up with some sketches for the logos, posters and websites.