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Project Scheduling

Below is our group's project schedule. It's not a finalized one yet. We will update it frequently as we go along.

Week 1, 2: Team Selection and Project Ideas
  • Form a group of 3 (create a questionnaire to give to potential teammates)
  • Think of a name for the project team
  • Decide who will be Project Leader, Visual Designer, and Information Architect
  • Decide on a type, a category, and a theme/topic for the project
  • Assignment due: Individual - Teammate Selection due on July 3
Week 3, 4, 5: Researching, Brainstorming & Gathering Information

  • Storyboarding
  • Developing ideas for the project
  • Narrowing the project's topic down to something doable
  • Brainstorming and researching extensively
  • Sketching and designing the overall look/structure of the piece
  • Getting detailed planning for the project (setting the project's milestones, drawing gantt charts and timelines, etc.)
  • Describing roles and allocating tasks of each team member
  • Assignments due:
    • Progress Report 1: Individual due on July 20
    • Group Project Proposals (10 % ) due on July 27

Week 6, 7, 8, 9, 10: Project Implementation

  • Scripting
  • Collecting materials and managing resources needed for the project (borrowing cameras, booking AV studio, software and hardware required, budgeting, etc.)
  • Taking photographs, filming, and interviewing
  • Designing and building the whole project
    • Editing movie, sound
    • Coding
    • Building Flash
    • Testing and debugging
    • Producing a beta version of the project
  • Assignments due:
    • Assignment 2: Group - Project Management Flowchart and Gantt Chart due on August 3
    • Assignment 3 : Group - Usability Testing of Prototype due on August 8
    • Group Mid-Project Presentations (10%) to be due on August 10
    • Assigment 4: Individual - Feedback on Mid-Project Milestone of another Team due on August 14
    • Progress Report 2: Individual due on August 17
    • Individual Research Presentations (20%)

Week 11, 12, 13: Project Presentation, Evaluation, and Final Submission

  • Presenting the project to other students and the instructor
  • Getting feedback from them
  • Troubleshooting and making any changes if needed
  • Submitting the final product (hooray!!!) ;-)
  • Assignments due:
    • Individual Research Presentations continued
    • Final Project Deliverables due on September 7
    • Final Project Presentations (10%)
    • Final Individual Assessment (by teammate 5%, by instructor 5%) due on September 14
    • Final Project Evaluations (10% another group, 20% instructor) due on September 21

(...to be updated)

Posted by Hang Tran on Tuesday, July 11, 2006 at Tuesday, July 11, 2006 |

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