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
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
- 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)
