Week 6 - Building and Money Boost

This week started explosively. We started the week with session in which we evaluated what we have done until now and how do we feel about the team and the team dynamics. On our first working day of the week (11.06) we also started the building process. Max and Marieke bought wood and screws from Gamma and carried them to Saxion, Glass building all by themselves (it was an overwhelming amount of wood). On top of all that, they also started building the installation. They put together the main construction of the installation and fitted the monitors.

Parallel with that Indre was working on improving the website. Both, Indre and Shtilyan were working on the design of the website, making it more intuitive for the future users.

In the meantime, Sacha was working on the 3D visuals for the hologram She achieved great results with creating the logos with particles. The same day she also managed to create 3D model of our installation in front of the skate shop.

Rania was busy researching what makes an advertising campaign successful. She was working on building a plan for it and in the same time researching how to store data with PHP.

The second working day we kept the pace and continued with the building process. This day Max, Sacha and Marieke fitted the door and the top part of the installation.

Max is working on the interaction.

Indre and Rania were working on the subscription function of our website.

Shtilyan, Marieke and Rania came up with a plan for an advertising campaigns that would be launched in 2 consecutive weeks. Marieke created animations based on Shtilyan's drawings for our promotional campaign and researched strategies for successful Instagram campaign. The goal of the first one would be to reach as many people as possible and inform them what the Shape of sound project is all about. The second campaign would aim to involve followers in our creative process by giving them the chance to create visuals and sound samples for our installation. The ultimate goal of both campaigns would be to get more people interested and involved in our project.

Our followers grew two times and we got great feedback for our social media strategy.

During the final two working days of the week we continued the advancement. One of the biggest achievements of the week was Sacha fixing us with two more sponsors – Gog Bot and Overkill. Each of them agreed to sponsor us with 100 euros. That was a great motivation booster for all of the team and helped us continue the hard work.

There was an advancement with the building process. Max and Shtilyan put wheels on the base of the installation so that it can be moved more easily.

Rania finished with the database code and sent it to Indre to implement it in the website. Indre worked hard to fix the menu bar of the website. She did it and it looks amazing.

Sacha and Max worked on the logo forming, finding what our limitations for the visuals are (limitations of the laptop we are using).

Everyone is sending their fixed parts of the Design document to Indre so she can combine it and finish it by the end of the week.

The very last working day of the week we gathered and evaluated our progress, pointing out the things we like about our team work and what can be improved. This helped us create a plan for the coming weeks.