Summary & Key Takeaways
Meeting 5 （February 12, 2025)
Summary & Key Points
The team convened to finalize and polish Submission 1, focusing on refining the document, ensuring accuracy in citations, and preparing for the next project phase. Key takeaways include:
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Document Finalization: The group completed the final touches on Submission 1, including adding research, visual references, and a recording plan. Citations and references were standardized for consistency.
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Visual and Sound Design: Members contributed ideas for sound amplification (e.g., low-frequency sounds for earthquakes) and visual construction based on events like fire, flood, storm, and earthquake. These elements will guide future project development.
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Narrative Structure: The team discussed the narrative arc in detail, emphasizing the importance of a clear beginning (waking up as Piper Boy), middle (exploring challenges like climate disasters), and end (light symbolizing hope).
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Perspective Shifts: The group debated transitions between perspectives (e.g., Piper Boy to animals) and their narrative justification. This remains a critical focus for immersive storytelling.
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Documentation Standards: Clarifications were made regarding individual contributions to group documentation. Each member must submit their input with their name clearly labeled to ensure fair grading.
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Next Steps: Preparations for Submission 2 are underway, including equipment rental and planning for video recording within the next month.
Individual Contributions
Carly:
Today, we met to review our document before submission, meaning we made the final touches on it. We added more research, a recording plan, retouched the cites and references, added some visual references, and polished the document.
Ruotong:
In this meeting, we summarized all the sections. I inserted images representing the four events—fire, flood, storm, and earthquake—which can serve as references for our future sound and visual construction. Additionally, based on the storyline, I have envisioned some image recording plans that need to be completed in the next phase of the project.
Zixuan:In this group meeting, we sorted out and supplemented our project documents. Added some references we missed earlier. This is our last meeting before submission1, and we want to make sure that our project is perfect before we hand it in. Carly helped me to modify the citation format of the references in the part I was responsible for, which was a very useful help for me because I didn’t know how to quote correctly. We also supplemented the reference videos we provided to explain why we chose them as references.
Yiting:
Let’s work together to improve submission 1 and change the details of each part. I marked the date and location of each meeting and recording, and looked for good examples for the project for us to learn from. In the case of The tunnel, I observed that the video shooting used repeated montage techniques to create a sense of loss of control. I think we need to learn this shooting technique, which can make the nightmare look more full.In addition, in order to prepare for the implementation of Submission 2, we have contacted for the rental of filming equipment and expect to implement the filming plan within the next month.
Ruiqi:
Since Carly said it’s a cute beginning, I will continue that:
Dear Diary,
Today is the last opportunity for our group to review and adjust what we have and our plan, and it’s urgent. I’ve made a sound recording plan regarding IRs recording, piper playing sound and other detailed elements relating to the narration. Fortunately, we have settled up the research and references, which may look nicer and cleaner and which suits my MBTI so well. Haha.
Chao:
Today we have improved all the content of Submission1. My work is mainly to perfect the research of the historical and cultural parts of Edinburgh and Scotland, and then to analyze the project reference aspects of several reference prototype videos I selected.
