Weekly Report 5

This week Alicia and I met online again to discuss and develop our ideas. We discussed the Design Plan, how we will segment it so that we can each work on our own sections separately and then read over each other’s work and incorporate them. She is working on the audience analysis, which makes sense because she is around the target audience more and has access to more information as an employee of the school. We initially considered starting to work on the other sections but decided to hold off until Tuesday’s class. It’s an interesting back and forth between Alicia and myself. My natural instinct is to start working on something ahead of schedule, and stay ahead, so that there’s a buffer if something becomes delayed. Alicia’s natural style is to wait and make sure we have all the information we need, so that we don’t end up doing the same work twice.
We discussed the logo animation quite a bit. We both put ideas on the table, and we both rejected most of them; some because they were not feasible with our current skill levels, and some because they did not have a strong connection with computer software and/or instruction/education. I’m going to actually create the animation, but we’re both going to be involved in deciding what it is. I think the logo will be one of the most challenging elements.
While we were discussing ideas for the animation I felt very frustrated that I don’t know more. I have some programs of my own that would be very helpful in this task, but I haven’t had time to learn them yet.