Top Dog

Hello all,

It’s been an interesting week since my last entry. The group assignment has been handed out and the groups have been decided. The group consists of me, Adam and Luke and after a vote it was decided that I would be the Project Manager.

This to me proves that democracy doesn’t work and a much fairer system such as Communism should be adopted.

Only joking, I was and still am happy to do the job. The amount of extra work the Project Manager has to do is currently blowing my mind, its strange delegating work that you would normally do you self to team members. Then you have to worry if the work is up to the standard that is normally produced by yourself, knowing that it its not good enough as the P.M its your problem.

I have confidence in my team and I know they will produce the goods. The mini deadline I have imposed for this week is to have a finished web plan. From this on Monday we can start the design process and by Tuesday have a number of designs to show the client.

The project is making a website that has pages for Interactive Media, Photography and Fine Art. The brief is very open and Andrew (the client) has given us the say in the direction the site goes. With this in mind, we are going to students on the courses and asking them what they want.

Today I went to the art department and completed some questionnaires with the art students. This has given me a lot of ideas about the direction the page should be taken in and the response to some of my ideas was good.

The main thing they wanted to see was examples of work done on the course, photos of the trips they make and a lot more information than on the current site. Most of them only use computers for research and I think from this the site should look as much like print work as possible.

On Thursday either my self or Luke/Adam will ask the first year Interactive Media and the Photography students the same questions. I think the Photography students will be fairly computer literate as will (should) the Interactive Media ones.

The experience of Project Management has been an interesting one so far and as long as I keep on top of the work load it shouldn’t be one that I don’t enjoy.

Thanks, Dale