Meeting Minutes from November 13th

The first thing we discussed at our meeting was what we needed to do next. As the weeks pass, the presentation is ever looming - so we thought it would be a good idea to get together some ideas about ours.

 

These were some of the key points that we wanted to make sure our presentation fulfilled...

• We want lots of imagery. We were all decided that there really is nothing worse than a bland-looking powerpoint presentation, so we have come to the decision that we are going to include lots of relevant imagery. This could mean images off the internet, photos we take ourselves, pictures we find in printed media (scanned in)

 

• We want our presentation to be very clear - so we thought it would be a good idea to have our first slide as our project question, and our last slide as the outcomes we have come up with.

 

• We are all a bit anxious about being videoed entirely individually, so we have agreed that for the first few introductory slides, we will all be together.

 

• We are going to delegate ourselves 2 or 3 slides each to keep our presentation concise. So for next time, we've agreed to come up with a brief bullet pointed slide each, which we will then combine at our next meeting when we start to work on our presentation.

What to do for next time...

• We want our audience to actually see our letters how they were written/published. So I have taken on the responsibility to have our letters enlarged and printed on to A3 paper so that we can have them displayed. This isn't vital until the day of presentation though.

 

• We will work on our planning slides and bring them next time for combination.

 

• We want our annotations to be on display too, so we are going to bring all of our annotated letters to the next meeting and put them into a presentable folder so that our audience can browse through them if they wish to do so - giving a nice insight into some of the first stages of analysis that we covered.

 

• We need to familiarise ourselves with how to make a video - so we are going to look at the RSEL wiki for ideas and tips.

 

• We need to prepare a full bibliography of background reading that we have done, so we are all collecting our references and writing them down so that, in due course, we can put them down officially in time for the presentation.

Our next meeting is on Wednesday 21st November.