September 22nd journal update

Week 1:
This week we created our group with the following members:
Jason Shen
Danny Ho
Mark Fussell
Michael Paraninfi
Paul Shih

Our first meeting was on Saturday. We all brainstormed our team's strengths and weaknesses to create our concept map of the skills that our group possesses. This exercise helped us figure out what kind of projects are possible with our skill-set and what is beyond the limits of our group. After that we took pictures of each other to put on the team web site. From there, we talked about what our goals of the group are in this project and the answer that we came up with is that our finished product should look good and we are determined to make that happen. We also do not wish to create a product that solves any worldwide problems, but want to create a product that people can enjoy and have fun with. From these two goals, we created our team name: "All Nighters HD" and our mission statement: "We are willing to stay up all night... and look good while doing it!" Another requirement of the first assignment was to create a visual representation of our team logo and we decided to create a pretty wacky movie poster to illustrate what our team is about.

After that meeting was over, we assigned work amongst each other:
Jason - create web site and team logo
Michael - create movie poster
Paul - help with web site
Mark and Danny - create poster


Week 2:
We met on Sunday to work on the assignment together. The mentor list was printed out and divided amongst the 5 of us. From there we narrowed down the list until all of them could help our group in some way. We then voted on which mentor we wanted to put on the list of 5 mentors.
In the end, it came down to the following 6 mentors:
#1 - Diane Gromala
#2 - Mark Fromson
#3 - Jacqueline Antalik
#4 - Zerlina Chan and Anne Yeo
#5 - Bernhard Reicke
#6 - Sean O'Reilly

After that, we brainstormed on what direction our group should be heading in. We are still undecided on the topic, but we came out with a couple of ideas of what we should do, which include: zombies, explosions and flying. Most of our group prefer to have something video based and we were questioning the possibility of a game. Looking at our skill set, we agreed that we do not have the capability of creating a realistic 3d game. After our brainstorming, we ended our meeting and assigned the following tasks to each group member:

Danny - create journal entries and do write ups on mentor #3 and #6 on our list
Jason - update web site and do write ups on mentor #1
Michael - do write up on mentor #5 and tweak our movie poster
Paul - work on the mentor document
Mark - work on the mentor document