Week 5

In last week’s supervisory team meeting, it was mentioned that our current direction was too broad. Afterwards we decided that we would focus our research onto one aspect of mise-en-scène, specifically lighting and or colour in games to elicit emotion. Nick then went about creating the layout for the literature survey, and as a team, we created several possible headings on what was going to be written about.

After checking through the journals, and deciding as a team which would be the most useful towards our project, we started to write out the literature survey. It was decided that we each do certain sections on the literature survey. I fleshed out the psychology of emotion section and part of the abstract, and then passed it between the team members. We then went on to refining it, in addition to Matt, Nick and James’s sections, into one document that flowed from one part to the next. Once the literature survey was completed we then proof read it several times individually and made any corrections to the document as a group.

After that we discussed what was to go in the Academic Pitch, which Nick wrote then we discussed it and made some additions to the pitch. James and Matt created the design document, which we all reviewed and which Nick re-wrote, to make sure all the documents had the same consistency to them, instead of looking disjointed, had we all kept our different styles of writing in. From this we discussed a list of milestones between the team, and decided on a plan which was completed as a group.

On the 25th, we discussed the work so far with Claire, who pointed out that we were missing what testing methods in the literature survey. Afterwards we discussed the suggestions and made changes to the documents. On Thursday, we met up with the supervisory team where we discussed several points deliverables, which we adjusted later in the afternoon.