Weekly Summary 9/10

Just lately my brain has taken a nosedive. So much is happening around me that my mind is too full of fluff for me to concentrate, the stress of Third Year is already taking its toll ... which is weird because we've pretty much only been back three weeks (which in itself is terrifying), time is going seriously fast!

'an accurate representation of my brain currently.'

This is one of my first weekly summaries as advised in our 'development documentation guide' where I will talk about what I have learnt this week (which doesn't feel like a lot in my brain fluffy world right now!) and document anything that doesn't really belong in a research post.

At the moment with my project work has taken a bit of a side course as I really try and figure out what I want to do, these tasks we've been set are really curbing my brains ability to focus on more things at once and I feel I've paid more attention to the insect one and now we've got another to do its a little too much. SO I think I shall focus this next week entirely on my main project and CS work and see if I can do some catching up!

I think I have finally settled on a strong idea that will carry me through to BA3b. This idea is to scrap a few of the ideas that I have been umming an ahhing about such as the Death Knell, I absolutely love it and it's something I would love to do, but it's taking me away from the main path and causing me too much stress to link it all together.

I am sticking with the tasteful torture theme, and have decided to link it with phobias, to do this I will be looking into said phobias and pairing them best with torture devices that fit. To make this 'tasteful' and available for the end of year show I will be looking into more of the psychology of phobias to make the images 'scary' without showing too much blood or scary images. This is still going to be a challenge though. My tutor Mark suggested I do some reading into psychology, which thankfully I have a bit of a collection of from BA6 (thank you serial killer project!) and that I email Stuart Ashen (or Ashens to the whole of Norfolk) and ask for some advice on this matter as he has a PhD in Psychology, well, as a massive fan of Ashens' Youtube channel ... sending an email about torture and phobias felt very weird. I eagerly wait a reply! Mark also suggested I look into using the inkblot Rorschach test instead of asking questions with words to see what images scare people more! I reall like this idea as I'll be able to use these and then go straight into values with them. The survey will still be a great help though!

I have also changed my CS research report to match with this project work, I will be looking into how games use scares to create a scary game 'What makes a good scare?' I have already begun a little research into this by creating a questionnaire asking strangers and friends for their fears and the like. Mark gave me some advice on this by suggesting that I look into guides on how to write good questionnaires so I don't end up leading people on with my questions. I still need to work out what topics I am going to cover with it as well.

Well this is all I can remember from this week.