Introduction
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In this session we covered basic project planning, planned for next week’s presentations, completed an exercise in narrative development and joined the ‘lunch bites’ for a presentation by Adinda van ‘t Klooster, a practicing artist/academic working with technology.

Project Planning
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We spent some time as a group brainstorming the important stages for project development and discussed the common stages in project development (in no particular order):

1. Planning

2. Research

3. Equipment requisition

4. Training

5. Implementation

6. Testing/rehersal

7. Meetings/comms

8. Contingency

 

Stevie presented the GANNT chart as one possible way of mapping out project tasks.  For further info see:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gantt_chart for the wikipedia entry

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/excel/ha010346051033.aspx for microsoft’s take on GANNT charts in Excel

http://www.vertex42.com/ExcelTemplates/excel-gantt-chart.html claims to have a template but  Stevie hasn’t tried it out yet!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CW_wGSFavTc for a youtubethrough of how to produce a GANNT chart

Narrative Development

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Last week we defined Narrative as: A series of connected events; a story.  Stevie introduced a means of developing narratives using images as stimuli.

Four images, each of them tagged with “regeneration” on flickr were presented in a slide show.  Students had to write a narrative that included elements from/responded to at least one of the images.

Students then condensed these narratives down to a one or two sentence summary - a technique which will be of use when thinking how to present their project ideas in a condensed manner.  We discussed these short summaries as a group.

Lunch Bites
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For the second half of the session we joined Adinda van ‘t Klooster’s lunch bites session for an informative presentation on her research and practice.

Tags: Creative Web and Interactive Narrative, creatviity, project planning