Let the programming begin! woohoo

This week we were working on the intro screen for the Mac. It's done like an old film with grainy effects and sound bars coming across the screen. The arduino is now blinking, so our next task is to get it talking to Flash. This will involve downloading AS3 Glue and a lot of messing about with it. We got feedback after the master class and he reckoned that we should simplify the idea and concentrate on the inventions the most.

Research Photos

Today we went searching for locations for the 1940s newsreel. The Guinness Brewery seems to have the style we were looking for. We also found antique shops that have Victorian furniture and photos of buildings and the robot that we can use for the Timeline.

New Logo

We simplified our logo for the project, let us know what you think of it.

Technology and The Script

The Arduino came in during the week. This will be used for the wind-up Mac so that the Potentiometer can react with the computer. This will be the biggest task of the project.

By next week we hope to have a led blinking with Arduino. We have been working on concept

for the desktop of the Mac. The script is also due on monday and on wednesday were going

to look for locations for the newsreel.

Sample Graphics

Newsreel Example

Parallel Worlds, Parallel Lives

Watch this!
Parallel Worlds, Parallel Lives is a BAFTA - winning television documentary broadcast in 2007 on BBC

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMZVPWQrLNU

All Connected

You can now follow The Parallel World Museum on Facebook and Twitter

http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Parallel-World-Museum/#!/pages/The-Parallel-World-Museum/440197780354?ref=ts

http://twitter.com/wparallel

The Gramamixer

Timelines!

Today we had our second meeting with our supervisors. We have a main date every ten years on our timeline and this runs from 1800 - 2010. There are still finishing touches to be added and it will be complete by next week. A rough project timeline has been done this shows what dates we plan to have each part of the project finished by.
The timeline above is an example of the type of timeline we were looking at.
The scripts are due in two weeks and were going to crack on with that this week.
Other additions to the project will be the newsreel this will provide people with the information about our parallel world by showing a Victorian black and white style short film.