ACT - Setting Up

Today was fairly stressful as I needed to help with the ACT show and also finish setting up my personal portfolio. We decided that we needed to collate our fireworks into one movie file and then project them as this would look really interesting.

ACT - Financing

Today me, Sally and Allister started working out the materials that we would need for the degree show. We worked out which materials we would need for everybody and went into town to start collating the prices from different shops. We then returned to University and went through the finance system to get the money to buy the materials with.

ACT Meeting - Floor Plan

At today's ACT meeting, a floor plan was decided upon. It is a lot more easier to picture how everything will be now that there is a visual aid. It's been decided that the room will be split down the middle, half of it will be an abstract casino and half will be room for out portfolios. This is a good idea as now we don't need to think about how to lead the visitors into the back room, where we originally planned to have our personal portfolios.

ACT MSN Meeting

Today I received an email from Tom, requesting that we have a short meeting via MSN because he was unsure that his fireworks would fit in. Me, Sally and Tom discussed everybody's fireworks online and felt that they did all work together as it showed different types of originality.

Degree Show Confusion

Today I received an email suggesting that lecturers at the University weren't happy with the way we had taken the theme for the degree show and wanted us to follow the other group's theme. This was very worrying and caused a lot of panic as many people had already started projects for it.
In the morning, we discussed this with the lecturers and they seemed to know nothing about this. It seemed that there was either some confusion or a breakdown in communication with the staff. Either way, we were given the go-ahead to continue our projects so nothing has actually changed which is a big relief.

Act Meeting

Today we had another act meeting. We had all gone away thinking of specific ideas for what each of us could do and then today came back to discuss them further. We talked about different works people were making, how we could merge them together better, how to setup the room and what equipment we would need. My part of the project is to oversee the firework display that we will be making. I will be overseeing it and making most of the fireworks, while organising how other people's similar work can fit into it and including other people's fireworks.
We arranged to meet up once a week to continue seeing other people's progress and making sure that we all work together rather than seperately.