# Advanced Interactive Media/2008 Project: Weekly Progress Summaries for An Interactive Projective
## Week01

Three teams and three phases created/outlined:
The teams:
Three Phases:
The User and client profiles were discussed with the following notes:
User Description: Issues Raised:
While we are initially planning this with the target audience in mind, we need to not forget who the client ultimately is and what they want. Client is the Kirkpatrick Foundation and the OKC art museum.
Collective Ideas/Suggestions:
following:
- Use the Wii-mote to control the virtual artwork inside the VR tent
Initial Project Consideration: A treasure-hunt competition where the group of children will be split into two teams and each team will use Wii controllers and their half of the enclosure’s projection screens to work their way through a VR environment of the museum, using various collected clues, to find all the objects or information before the other team does. Also in the enclosure would be a chroma-key wall where an actor/college student would show off media interaction by coordinating their movements and behavior with characters projected on through the chroma-key (Interactive team?). Leading up to the enclosure would be a tunnel-like entrance where the students would be introduced to the game and what’s ahead in the enclosure as well images and other aspects of interactive media via flat screens (Design and AV teams) Selling this idea to schools will require printed material (Design team) Other considerations:

## Week02

Discussion regarding the look and feel of the final product, geared towards the user-profile from last week:

## Weeks03 & 04

- The colour palette is now on Facebook.
- In detail:
> The entrance will now have a two-sided flap, black on the inside and white on the outside which will allow for projections to displayed on that white, external side.
> If separate actors and presenters are used, the actors would use the chroma-key wall to play out scripted interactions with the characters displayed keyed-in there, while the presenters would stay up by the entrance.
> The Project concept continues to tighten up. Over the weekend, a specific ‘story’ outline came into being that retains many of the ideas from Week02, but places them in a new ‘setting’:
- Scriptwriters to begin adding more details for the concept story as well as modularizing the story as much as possible for each room, etc.
- That said, all team leaders will need to now be constantly checking with each other, as well as the scriptwriters, as the overall and specific scripts become more integrated.

## Week04 Update

After further communication, we now have some feedback, that a confirmation may be received as early as the middle of February, but it might also be as late as 1 April. Consequently, the expectation for the issuing of the grant affecting this class’s project work has actually been reduced to about 20%, since the deadline of Feb 22 must remain.
In light of this, initial proposals for the transfer of the concept to the Elsing museum were reviewed. The curator has agreed to give the class a shortened tour of the museum to familiarize those who have not been through it.
More specifically, since the animations company would not be involved in anything to do with the Elsing Museum, the initial concept is for a Lightwave-created, VR cave-environment that would replace that company's VR production of the OKC art museum. The curator even has previously made drawings of such in the hopes that this might eventually become a physical construction for the museum, and the Lightwave design could then act as a blueprint and would also feature in any future visitor’s centre.

## Week05 (Pt2)

What are the most interactive items we have in this project plan?
1) The touchscreen
2) The Wii-motes

## Week06(Pt1)

- Elsing Tour conducted along with a review of how the goals will change if we switch to that subject (Those goals to be listed soon).
- Group encouraged to pick out things that could be presented as inspiring and attention-grabbing parts of the media display.
Tour notes:
The museum is growing in its renown. Inquiries are now being received from across the nation, and so it is to the point where one can consider how worldwide exposure could release a whole new wave of interest and interactivity between schools around the world and the museum. It’s displays and information would be an invaluable resource for many classes.
Willard Elsing was an artist and organised his displays accordingly. His fascination was with God’s artistry as can be seen in so much of the raw minerals displayed. The curators want to retain that artistry look but also add in a focus on the educational aspects.
Appraisal: The value of the displays are kept secret for security reasons, but the administration has detailed inventory including pictures and even videos, that could be a veritable goldmine (please excuse the pun!) of resources for the group.
A VR tour could serve as the basis for self-guided tours? One problem in that is how to keep track of the user's location.
User groups: The most focused on are third-grade age (approx 12yrs old) children. A secondary focus falls on college and then adults in general
Educational:
Showcase the multitudinous products that come from all the minerals and crude oil. A good resource here is 'Properties of Minerals' case – which shows the tests for authenticity. The curator’s prime concern, in regards to media displays, in this regard would be the Tristate mines. Such a presentation would help on an educational basis and also in procuring further grants.
General Notes: Construction time for the SSV setup is set at about one hour, with four people working

## Week06(Pt2)

Notes from meeting with animations company:
General Notes: Checkout the ‘Year of Creativity in Oklahoma’ (www.stateofcreativity.com)

## Week07(Pt1)

The deadline for switching from Kirkpatrick to Elsing has now passed, and we are now to focus on the Elsing!

## Week07(Pt2)

- All three teams created a mind-map of their respective portions of Elsing museum project. Those will now be merged into one, unified mind-map.
- New suggestion: Use images of known people such as the children's teacher - record them ahead of time and integrate that into the presentation video - will astonish the kids to see their teacher there in the video!

## Week08

Further ideas to consider after teacher’s experiences with Flight Simulator software from a recruitment fair:
- Have the SSV at any future college fair as an immersive experience. Present a 'game'/simulation that will introduce prospective students to ORU and give them a taste by using the simulation, immersive media to make them feel as if they are really there.
- After further discussion with the class, if funding should still come thru for the Kirkpatrick project, then there could be a class vote as to whether to switch back. If that turns out to be impractical, then the team leaders might be asked to vote as representatives instead. Regardless, if nothing is heard by next week, then there will be no question of turning back. For now, we continue with the process of transferring the focus of our work to the Elsing Museum.

## Week09

- It’s now clear that it is not going to be possible to have a finished project for the Elsing Museum by the end of this class (before it heads off to NAB). So it’s time to set a revised goal, which will now be to create prototypes of every feature that is being proposed and then have the curator obtain grants to facilitate the completion of the work in future classes. So our job now is to pioneer the following, in prototypes:
All assigned work is now speced out and assigned on Google docs.

## Week10

- Colour palette chosen - Deanna to publish and catalogue
- Interactive team to shoot a VR scene today, teacher will stitch the various hot-linked VR's

## Week11

- Monday was the Phase 2 deadline - Interactive team will now take all the templates and add their content. All templates to be deposited in the server folder: Final Project/Final content - Interactive team will go there for the templates. Teacher to co-ordinate with the curator for a meeting ahead of the final presentation.
Final Presentation:
- Each team needs to get a presenter to sell the project to the curator . Preferably, one speaker per team to cover all of that team’s topics, rather than one speaker per topic.
- Presentation scheduled for 3pm Wednesday, Apr 09 (the week before NAB)
- 30min max for the whole thing with Q&A at the end
- In terms of notes/speech, one half-page, double-spaced ‘script’ is going to be about how much time each speaker has. This written script needs to be submitted ahead of time.
- Project Director to create an Excel spreadsheet breakdown of topic time-allotments
- The curator & Grants Coordinator will attend the 30min presentation. Initial estimate for the completed project development is now $30,000, and the Grants coordinator would be the one to pursue the requisite grants.
- Interactive team: Absolute deadline for receipt of all content - Mon, 07 Apr at 0830 - Teacher to send details. Everything but the curator interview needs to be uncompressed.
- Design team: Maybe focus on a more grownup clientele for the website-look (splash and homepage) to address the parents, teachers, etc. Jimmy will use Deanna's layers as a template and do it. Hi quality, hi-res jpeg’s to be submitted to the Interactive Team.
- AV team: Blue screening of the curator (co-ordinate with ETV). Ben has script ready, and it has been sent to the curator. Because of the lack of a full-length chroma-key wall, only a Chest shot will be possible. Thence, the Curator’s image should be integrated into the rest of the media (Deanna's screen templates), and should also be one of the cartoon characters. For the curator ’s intro speech, create cue cards, or confirm he'll ad lib it.

## Week12

Presentation Notes:
- Plan on using the Wii controllers in the presentation
- Team presenters to be picked today (Mon). Can be per team or one per topic. That person will write script today. Script is to serve as speech notes and reminders. There will be a rehearsal on Wed beforehand. Remember you're selling the idea, not giving a technical explanation.
- Memorize the first few lines & just remember the other highlights.
- Be relatively informal
(Documentary now to be done as a side-project between John and Roger during the summer)