Meeting 3

Meeting held on: Monday 11^th of February 2013

Location: Cantor 9200

Attendance: JK (Project Manager) LH (Team Member) DW (Team Member)

Apologies: JK (due to having to leave early as under the weather)

No.	Raised by	Item		Action by
1	Jk	Apologies	JK not feeling good but has turned up so its been discussed that we will stay and hear all the ideas and decided on give feedback on them	JK
2	Jk	Ideas	So all to give one idea each and give feedback and edits	All
3	LH	Idea	Interactive Animation JK suggested paper animation	LH/ JK
4	JK	Idea	Advert for TV to advertise her book which links to twitter pages, facebook and webpages
5	DW	Idea	Mini animation on the fish from the cover of the book agreed that this idea could combine into any other ideas but also can stand alone if better	DW

Meeting 2

Meeting held on: Monday 4^th of February 2013

Location: Cantor 9200

Attendance: JK (Project Manager) LH (Team Member) DW (Team Member)

Apologies: None

No.	Raised by	Item		Action by
1	JK	Meetings	All agreed to the idea that if a meeting is unable to be attended by any member then its there responsibilities to reschedule the missed meeting	All
2	JK	Book	JK and LH have started to read the book and DW still needs to buy it	All
3	JK/ LH/ DW	Linda Hoy	Linda Hoy has been in and given our class a good briefing on what she is looking for out of this project (see notes on blog)	All
4	JK/ LH/ DW	Brief	All feel positive and have a good understanding about what Linda Hoy would like out of this experience	All
5	JK	Ideas	Suggests that every one goes away and comes back next week with a few ideas each	All

Meeting 1

Meeting held on: Monday 28th of January 2013

Location: Cantor 9200

Attendance: JK (Project Manager) LH (Team Member) DW (Team Member)

Apologies: None

 For the purpose of this blog our contact details are hidden.

No.	Raised by	Item		Action by:
1	DW/ LH	Project Manager	Group was formed and introduced It was Decided that Jaz Kaur would take on the roll as Project manager	All
2	JK	Meeting Times	It was agreed that most meeting will be either done on Mondays between the hours of 1 and 5 Thursday After 3 Fridays 1 till 12 Tuesday and Wednesday will be any Skype meetings we need and to do set task We don’t have to do all these meeting every week they are optional if we need them	All
3	LH	Team Name	After hours of discussion the team name had been decided Best Served Chilled was chosen and agreed by all	LH
4	JK DW LH	Details	Phone numbers Jk: 07********* Skype: J************ DW: 07********* Skype: d********** LH: 07********* Sykpe: l*********	All
5	LH	Blog	Set up a group blog Best served chilled animation@gmail.com	LH
6	LH/ DW/ JK	Blog	All created our own accounts to document work on our blog LH: L************************* JK: J**************************** DW: D********************************	All
7	LH	LOGO	Designed and added a logo to our blog which we will used on all our work	All
8	JK/ LH/ DW	Brief	Looked at brief and suggested we all buy the book and give it a read to have more understanding	All

Idea's Based on meeting with Linda

After speaking with Linda last Monday we found as a group that she was really interested in the interactive book idea I proposed to her.

The basic outline of my idea was that a short section of the book could be transformed into a interactive audio and visual experience. Visual and audio elements will support the extracted text along with a narration of the text. The reader could then interact with the visual elements before moving on to the next section.  Within the illustrated scenes the user could discover extras, such as Linda's original imagery for the book or even an interview. At the conclusion of the interactive experience a message would invite the reader to continue exploring the unknown and provide a link to Linda's website to purchase the book.

Both Linda and her Project Manager stated that they haven't really explored ways of promoting the book online other than the website. I think that this is key to promoting Linda's book. There are so many ways to promote the book through interactive media. I think the interactive experience of the book will entice people and then make them want to continue reading thus prompting them to purchase the book.

Linda was very clear that she would like the 'Dimension Hoping Goldfish' to remain the 'Mascot' of the book. I think it is very important that we implement this into any final output we create. Within the interactive reading experience idea the fish could lead the reader between sections of the book and could even be am 'Easter egg' and when clicked on gives the reader extra information about the book.

As you can see to the left there are my first initial design ideas for the interactive experience to give you more of an idea of my concept, including the goldfish.

This is my main concept idea an I look forward to discussing ideas into tomorrow's meeting.

Initial ideas

Over the past week I have had various ideas running through my head as to what we could possibly create for Linda Hoy and her book The Effect. When meeting her last week and talking to her I noticed that she seemed to be quite enthusiastic and fond of the cover image of her book which can also be found on her website, she talked about how the image showed a dimension hopping fish. I feel as though the image tells a story in itself and also represents a lot of the themes found in the book and so would be an excellent thing to expand upon. My idea would be to re-create the image as a short animation with the goldfish starting in a familiar environment in a fishbowl before jumping to a different dimension as shown on the front cover of The Effect. In between there would be flashes of images and animation representing themes and elements of the book in a psychedelic style. Below is the image that I have been referring too, found on the front cover of The Effect.

 

I look forward to discussing and sharing all of our ideas together as a group on Monday, it will be interesting to see what the outcome is. I feel excited about the project and have high expectations that we will be successful in whatever we decide to create.

First meeting with Linda Hoy

So guys I took a lot of notes when Linda Hoy came in so I thought as back up its best to have them on here so we can see. If i have forgotten anything then comment and added it so I can see it too.

- Writes fiction for younger people 1981-Horror, serious novels-Used to be a teacher-Time curved not in a straight line-The Effect book is published by O-books-book fell in many categories - Various target audience- no obvious target audience- people wont read the book if they don't know what its about- social media and the internet needs a lot of improvement and not enough has been done to publisize her book.- no-one visits website if they have not read the book- have got face book and twitter pages for the book but not for linda hoy- flyers business cards have been done- want to keep the images of the book cover- page on the net for people to share the weird things that have happened to them when they have read the book- target student that with partially courses that the book may help them- press release- o book website bad use of images- wacky and surreal - Alice And Wonderland staute in New York- Boulby Mine (wiki)- selling books from her own website- Advertisements

Emil:- Theeffectbook@gmail.com

Hope this all helps!

Update on Aesthetics

Just an update on the design front, I've changed the layout and added a header with a provisional logo design. I thought we could use a logo to identify our selves. Like I said the logo is provisional and can be completely scrapped. If you could give your opinions in a comment or perhaps even your take on how the logo should look.