[ Mike ] - Week 2 - Discussing Ideas With Jo Bowman

Today we had our 2nd lecture of the year for Virtual Environments. After having the presentation from Elli on Wednesday, we had met up as a group for a brief review of what we picked up from the talk. This allowed us to discuss a few possible ideas, which we then put forward to our lecturer Jo Bowman. Our only concern was whether we would lose out by focussing on a broader subject rather than focussing in on 1 building or 1 activity. Jo re-iterated that the project was quite broad and that we were able to interpret the brief how we liked as long as the end product was what was desired of the project.

We had come to the conclusion that our best idea was going to be Colchester Castle. We thought about doing a "Castle through the ages" theme where we look at the history timeline of the building and its inhabitants. We all felt that this was a good idea but at the same time voiced concerns over a) the possible lack of excitement and enjoyment of the final video and b) the fact that a lot of people may chose to do a castle as its quite an obvious project.

We put this idea forward to Jo and she liked the idea of it but as a group we decided we would continue to think of ideas and have a final decision by the next lecture.

Jo informed us that the next part of the project would be to make a small presentation to her and the rest of the groups in the next lecture about our ideas for the project. We decided to meet up on Tuesday 5th October to discuss this presentation.