Week5/Process - Group Presentation

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After 3 hours group meeting today, we have done some part of the presentation slides. It's not finished yet,we'll keeping adding new content to improve it. I advised to use Prezi as present tool, here is the screenshot of the draft slides:

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And we also finish record some videos about our project topic, though It's still need some more editing.

Week5/Presentation Feedback - Planning

/Aerial Ropeway in a World Heritage Environment

Bethany Louise, Maria, Daisy, Iqra, Yen, Matthew.

/The Bus Stop of the Future
Jason, George, Violet, Michael, Tonny.

Critics:

1 Keep reading the notes or screen, have no eye contact or body language to communicate with audience;

2 Voice not loud enough to get everyone's attention through all presentation;

Good things learned:

1 Clear layout of powerpoint slides to show the keypoint, well thought of hierarchic with the slides format;

2 Interesting ideas of video editing such as appropriate background music of the video, jump out of subtitle;

3 Detailed analysis of a variety of situations and the importance of each part during the whole project;

After the presentations, I have learned that Planning is every important for a group project. To analyze the expected and unexpected situations of the project, we could have a well control of everything during the process.

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Our group will be present next Wednesday, and we have already done some research and built up several ideas about the interface of project, the use of database. What we need to focus for now are:

1 Powerpoint slides for the presentation;

2 Video making about the project processes;

Also we are informed by tutor Stephen:

1 have to considering about Aesthetics of our own project style;

2 our client John James wants everything simple and cartoonish;

We will have a group meeting on Friday to get further work out.

Week4/Individual Process - Ideas

- Project: the Creation of Gothic Architecture

As the requirement, we basically have to do a database of gothic architecture structure in game engine Unity. Target buildings are Gothic Style cathedrals in North France which been built during 1080 - 1250. 

(image from John James' presentation slides)

The image is the map of the early 1740 Gothic churches during 1100 - 1250 in Paris Basin. From the lecture presentation done by John James, I have learned 2 things about the map:

1 these buildings are regularly been built in different locations for some reason (material supplier, financial resources, etc);

2 the church built with same gothic style but different details inside (structure courses, religion interests, etc);

-Transition from 2D to 3D

Then I'm think of we might can use this map as reference to create the start page. People could find the church in by zoom-in the area they interested. When the people zoom into a certain ratio, 2D map can step into 3D environment. I can't really tell by words, (sorry about my poor english), but I found a video shows exactly what I'm trying to say. (NUKE 2D to 3D in case the link doesn't work, I have got some captures from the video as well to show what I mean)

This is just what I'm thinking about the navigation between 2D to 3D, it might not that easy to process but hope will have little help.

- Search engine for database

I have also got some idea about what could be do with the elements inside the building. Inspired from ATG(audio tour guide/video about how 'Smart Tour Guide App' work), it's basically an application which serve for tourist to get information when they walk through in the building. The good thing learn from ATG is that the information could have voice reading instead of people have to read it by themselves. Because since I tried the Oculus Rift stuff in the class, I find out that the resolution is not very high, might not a easy thing to read too much. 

Here is a link of a ATG application developing company, might useful to get some ideas(orpheogroup).

Week1/Target CV -

This is the first page of my target CV.

Here is the dropbox link of the full PDF:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/cthgv5fw9elylir/YAOYU%20XIAO.pdf