Group Jam, full speed ahead

So it has been a busy day today. Actually the entire schedule is quite busy (whether we follow it or not). But today was the day to get all members in the same direction and really start thinking like a team. We were supposed to have an idea ready to present on Friday. This idea will be developed further in the beginning of next week. We had quite a long discussion about our goal. But in the end we all agreed in the general goal and got to work on the ideas. Below you can see some notes on our progress/thoughts today, just so you can see what we have done.

Concept Goal:
“Affecting people with a poem in an interactive audiovisual environment using calligraphy.”

Things that brought us to our goal:
- Tell stories (history, creation, religion, etc.)
- Discover information instead of just “learning”
- Interaction/response
- Calligraphy
- Telling a poem
- Enrich people, making them smarter (the harder the road…)
- Experience/feeling

Some of the goals we were thinking about before reaching the final goal:
“Making the user more aware of the meaning of calligraphy through an interactive experience”

“Making the user explore the meaning of calligraphy through an interactive experience”

“Create a new way to explore calligraphy with interactive design”

“Affecting people with a poem in an interactive audiovisual environment using calligraphy.”

“Creating an interactive environment which will affect people’s emotions. ”

Ideas/inspiration/concepts:
- Jeffrey Shaw – Legible City like digital place
- Calligraphy community making online calligraphy and sharing your art.
- Storytelling in digital 3D environment.
o Information points
o Choices in story
- Making calligraphy by making sound
- Learning history with interactive stories with calligraphic design.
o Also use smell
o The poem in calligraphy, discovering the game will award you with a translation of a word. So in the end you know what the poem says.
o Enter the room, darkness, music and the screen. Then the music fades out, and lights go on around an instrument. People should go and interact with the instrument while the movie goes on, creating calligraphy onscreen.
o See: Visuals
o Hear: Sound/music
o Smell: Candles/incense
o Touch: ‘Drumming’
o Taste: ???????????????
- Walking calligraphy. Calligraphy gets written digitally on the wall. You have 6 walls.
- Making your own poem which gets translated digitally in calligraphy. Sort of like a guestbook. Older messages fade, wear or overlay.

So we will see where this is going to take us. But we are confident in our team and we think we will make something good. Hopefully you will all agree with us in the presentations on Friday.
Good luck to all the groups and enjoy!