I was on a meeting to show off my progress and talk about it today. I asked questions and got some feedback on the project from one of our lecturers. The main feedback was

• It’s good I have framework for creating the characters. I should demonstrate this in my portfolio
• Show off how you’re going to get to emotional resonance
• Pick one character to do properly on portfolio to demonstrate this
• Don’t let the project expand more at this stage
• Project seems to be more about metaphor and memory rather than history, which is good
• Overarching narrative is good
• Articulate what the riddles are for, what are they trying to articulate
• Be mindful of implications of changing platform (from Unity to Godot)
• Scope for the project: Only needs to work on one device. Don’t worry about testing on different devices too much - this is not a technical project.
• Don’t do more. Focus on articulating your vision in the research proposal over the next two weeks.

So it seems like I’m going to focus on the pre-production portfolio over the next two weeks, doing research reading and filling in what I’ve already done were needed.

The research template needs following information:

1. Research
   1. Research area:
      1. A research area of the honours project, revision of the proposal vision statement, reflect increased understanding you have gained
      2. 100-200 words
   2. Research Questions:
      1. Your research questions
      2. 4 questions
   3. Revised Aims and Objectives
      1. The objectives from your proposal, but revised with better understanding of the project.
      2. 1 aim, 5 objectives
   4. Deliverables
      1. What you’ll actually do
      2. Example has 5 deliverables
2. Critical Analysis
   1. Research Area: Conceptual Ideas
      1. Why are you doing this research?
      2. 50-150 words
   2. Research Area references
      1. Use Harvard references.
      2. Expand your references from the proposal.
   3. Artistic/Design/Technical research
      1. Ideas, questions or problems explored in the research, keeping in mind the artistic/design/technical perspective
      2. 100-200 words
   4. Research Area references
      1. Use Harvard references.
      2. Expand your references from the proposal.
   5. Self-Reflection: Reflective analysis
      1. Examine your work, thoughts and actions relating to a creative endeavour, evaluate strengths and weaknesses and effectiveness of your choices, identify areas for growth, reflect your journey so far on the project. Use information from the skill gap/radar chart to consider your strengths and where you need to improve over the rest of the project.
      2. Write this last.
      3. 100-200 words
3. Practice
   1. Iterative development
      1. 1-6 slides
      2. 100 words + picture(s) per slide
      3. Links to animations etc
      4. Evidence iterative development of the design work
   2. Pre-production work
      1. 3-6 slides
      2. 100 words + picture(s) per slide
      3. Evidence pre-production work such as
         1. storyboards
         2. animatics
         3. assets
         4. test animations
         5. grey boxing
         6. etc.
      4. Add links to any moving image work. Include the links here and in the list of links in section 5.
4. Skills gap and plan
   1. Skills gap and plan & 4.1 Skills and Knowledge areas
      1. Create a radar chart with 3-6 areas you wish to develop during the Honours project
      2. Rate how good you are currently at it
      3. Explain what each area means to you in one sentence
      4. Use radar chart generator: https://geographyfieldwork.com/RadarMultipleChartCreator.html
   2. Project plan - Timeline
      1. List all activities and add them to a Gnatt chart.
      2. Use separate pages for list and Gnatt chart if needed.
      3. At this stage we need to see only a basic plan in terms of timings.
      4. See Lecture 12 for details.
   3. Ethics statement
      1. 25-200 words addressing project’s research ethics
      2. Refer to the research methods an ethics for further advice
      3. You’ll apply for ethical approval near the start of the project