26/01/11

At the meeting today with Bride and JJ and Aidan, Sean and myself in attendance we outlined our progress so far.

Both bride and JJ put pressure on us to keep pushing on with the work. We seem to be near enough on target but they’re not about to let us slack up in any way.

Aidan brought JJ up to pace with our position with the “Unity” platform and got lots of directional input from him on way’s to develop it further.

Sean detailed his position and got some ideas as to style of armor, headdress and the general attire of a warrior kings and men in 13^th century Europe.

Much was made of the need for research, indepth research on every aspect of the times. A look at Bunratty Castle was suggested to help us beef up on costume style and appearance. Wall dressings and tapestries along with a glossary of general iconography needs to be covered in greater detail.

One idea that gained favour was the suggestion of inputting some movie clips that could be activated by the viewer but could also be there only in the periphery, used as a sort of wall dressing and depicting domestic scenes either upstairs or downstairs, certainly worth pursuing.

For next week we need:

Story boarding----------- Sean

Clearer definition of the project’s aims ------Joint

Research; History, technology, dress and style to be firmed up on the details. ----------JC

We need more research into such things as case studies on King John and anything dealing with 13^th century Ireland that may be of interest or help.

Next meeting

Wed. 02/01/11 Time TBA

JC