Starting today on week 1 of the MA course at the University of Huddersfield, our project brief is to create a service or product for the Queensgate indoor market in Huddersfield Town Centre. We were split into groups and told to meet up for introductions and discussion using Microsoft Teams.
Group 1B Includes
- Me - Photography
- Jocelyn - Art Illustration
- Chris - Photography
- Shauna - Graphic Design
- Jack - Games Animation
- Renea - Graphic Design
We were given the task to introduce ourselves along with our strengths and creative specialisms. We had the opportunity to read through the brief given to us and started to come up with some ideas.
University of Huddersfield . TMA1402_Week1_DIscussionBrief. Brightspace. https://brightspace.hud.ac.uk/d2l/le/content/118032/Home
During this meet up we all outlined our strengths and skill sets as creative individuals and started to create mind maps of ourselves for us then to merge together and have a direct plan of what each creative can do for the success of this project. This gives the team a view of what each member can do, it will be a way to give out tasks and develop collaborative tasks during the project.
Our understanding of the project brief & plan.
As a group of creative individuals, we have come together and read through the project brief and generated business ideas , along with what type of product we could create. We have a mixed range of creatives in the team from photographers, graphic designers and games animators. We came up with many ideas and ways in which we can work together on different tasks and eventually game to the idea of creating a video game walkthrough of the Queensgate Market. Using Jack's specialism of games creation and a mix of illustration and graphic design we knew this was achievable in the time frame given. Our next move was to generate a name for the business and start researching into what is possible to create in the video game. Below we created a research and task plan after presenting our first basic idea to Simon Poulter who is a guest speaker for the module. We had great feedback from the initial idea and next we are looking to get our idea spot on and to something we are happy with creating. We also have a way of appointing task roles to the creatives and then building a more elaborate plan of action.
Group notes created by me
Discord - Personal communication with the team
We decided to create a Discord group chat, this is an online chat platform that allows you to create separate chat windows, so for example we have a general chat, visual imagery, tasks and social profiles chat. We plan to communicate through Discord on any tasks, collaborations and group discussions. Finally, as a small piece of research that we found towards the end of the session was this birds eye view blueprint of the Queensgate Market. This is a great piece of research for Jack to use and create an outline for the game design.
Inside the Queensgate Market Blueprint/birds eye view.
Kirklees Council. Queensgate Market Floor Plan [Online image]. http://www.virtualhuddersfield.com/queensgate/floor-plan.htm
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