Week 15 Development

Monday
I had my meeting with Brian today to discuss my current progress on my dissertation. He was quite happy with the current draft but he suggested that I modify the table of contents including the merging of certain areas and customised titles. He was kind enough to look though my introduction and make some suitable changes to to it. Some required rewording.The other issue I spoke to him was about my PDF printing process as well as my concern about some PDF publish issue featuring a white border. I feel that throughout this project I have been overzealous about my case studies. In my proposal I said I would study a large range of studies featuring films and comics. However with required reduction of words in my discussion as well as my time management, I have only analysed at least 3. Nevertheless I will include these in this blog as well as in the dissertation appendix.

Tuesday

I am hoping to do to:

• Visit Dundee Printing service and ask about proofreading the pdf before printing or asking for a test print to make sure it turns out as expected. 
• Attending meeting with Stephanie to look over current draft of dissertation 
• Polish up the visual documents for the assets featured within the comic. 
• Submit a draft of Honours Portfolio to Blackboard. 

Even if the final comic has errors in it. I can still modify changes to the final portfolio. It's not long now until the submissions but I believe I will complete everything before hand in next week.

This afternoon, I went along to Dundee University to speak to them about my PDF order. The price of the printed comic was not as expensive as I thought. I was able to clarify a few things before they processed my order. I asked them to make it A4 size and with no borders.

Wednesday
I spent most of today, looking on my blogs. and providing a consistent style. I was able to get through 60% of my blogs. However I have noticed that few posts about certain elements such the environment and characters were not included. Therefore I'll be including these soon.

Thursday
I went into Dundee to pick up the printed copy of my comic. It turned out really well. I had my meeting with Brian and I discussed with him my current state of the project such as business cards, dissertation and final submission work.

I spoke to him about my current progress with the dissertation and I was at a stage were I wanted to get this dissertation completed. Although he previously asked me to cut it down to 7,000 words, he was happy with its current state. He looked through my introduction and picked out a few areas that needed changed. However those didn't take too long.

Friday
I spent my day at home looking over my assertion and making sure the figures and case studies were up to date. I decided to include three case studies I made on Goon, The far side Gallery and The Quest by Rich Werner. I took some time to overlook the figures and prepared for Monday, which I plan to send to the copy shop.