{"id":112,"date":"2025-01-31T19:23:38","date_gmt":"2025-01-31T19:23:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/encore\/?p=112"},"modified":"2025-02-10T03:08:02","modified_gmt":"2025-02-10T03:08:02","slug":"week-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/encore\/week-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 3: 01\/27\/2025 \u2013 01\/31\/2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"112\" class=\"elementor elementor-112\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-78df233d e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"78df233d\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-559f667f elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"559f667f\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"color: #757575;\"><\/span><\/p><h2><span style=\"color: #dedede;\"><strong>Overview<\/strong><\/span><\/h2><p><span style=\"color: #cecece;\">This week, we presented our initial concept at Quarters, gathered valuable feedback. We refined key aspects of our experience, including character selection and environment effects. Based on the feedback, we are preparing to start playtesting, finalize prop sourcing, and assess technical feasibility in the coming weeks.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"color: #dedede;\"><\/span><\/p><h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span style=\"color: #dedede;\">Quarters Presentation<\/span><\/h2><h2><span style=\"color: #dedede;\"><strong><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-119\" src=\"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/encore\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/\u5fae\u4fe1\u56fe\u7247_20250202130006-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"705\" height=\"529\" \/><\/strong><\/span><\/h2><p><span style=\"color: #cecece;\">On Wednesday, we presented our interactive Titanic the Musical lobby experience to faculty for feedback. <\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"color: #cecece;\">Key takeaways included:<\/span><\/p><ul><li><span style=\"color: #cecece;\">Considering audience movement during intermission and its impact on ground gobo effects (potential use of a fog machine to enhance atmosphere).<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"color: #cecece;\">Addressing ambient noise levels that might interfere with audio elements\u2014early playtesting with directional speakers is essential.<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"color: #cecece;\">Beginning prop sourcing and fabrication as soon as possible.<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"color: #cecece;\">Refining our interactive postcard activity, as engagement levels are currently low.<\/span><\/li><\/ul><h2 style=\"text-transform: none;\"><span style=\"color: #cecece;\">Meetings<\/span><\/h2><div><span style=\"color: #cecece;\">We again discussed character selection with our client. They initially preferred real historical figures who were not in the musical, but concerns arose about distracting the audience. After further team discussion and getting client approval, we decided to use\u00a0the main characters will make both the exhibit and the musical stronger.<\/span><\/div><div>\u00a0<\/div><h2><span style=\"color: #cecece;\">Next Steps<\/span><\/h2><ul><li><span style=\"color: #cecece;\">Finalize prop list based on the final character selection<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"color: #cecece;\">Explore interactive activity improvements<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"color: #cecece;\">Plan the sequencing of luggage stations and develop Arduino schematics<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"color: #cecece;\">Start playtesting: directional audio in a noisy environment, luggage station interaction&#8230;<\/span><\/li><\/ul><p><span style=\"color: #bdbdbd;\"><\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Overview This week, we presented our initial concept at Quarters, gathered valuable feedback. We refined key aspects of our experience, including character selection and environment effects. Based on the feedback, we are preparing to start playtesting, finalize prop sourcing, and assess technical feasibility in the coming weeks. Quarters Presentation On Wednesday, we presented our interactive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/encore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/encore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/encore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/encore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/encore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/encore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":125,"href":"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/encore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112\/revisions\/125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/encore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/encore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/encore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}