Responsive group meeting

We finally managed to get sat down as a group today with all four members. we needed to meet up today to confirm our roles in the group and how we are going to proceed. The good thing is we all seem to be on the same page, everyone had done some good research and had reached similar conclusions. From my perspective today was very important as I will need to produce the content for the app in terms of illustrations and that means that the other members will be waiting for me to finish my work before they can start on theirs. Today I got a lot of clarity, I now know what I have to do and have got some good ideas from the group. There are 10 main festivals mentioned in the brief that we will have individual pages for on the app. Me and Chris will split the festivals in half and create illustrations for five each. We will need to be in constant communication to make sure that we are producing work that will work together cohesively. The website that was sent to us as part of the brief already has a colour scheme for each of the festivals that we could use to help users of the app easily identify what information relates to which festival. Given the scale the illustrations will be displayed at, any complex detail we be ineffective and most likely off putting. I think the challenge with this brief will be producing refined simplified illustrations and text that manage to embody the identity of the festival while still being clear and bold. I am thinking we could incorporate illustrations into the text, using objects or characters as letters, the problem with that is that the more we add the more chance we have of the text becoming confusing. The other option would be to use illustrations for the background of the lettering then create hand drawn type for the title of the festivals. Both of these techniques have been used for BBC logo's and apps in the past. I think colour will be key if this project is going to be a success we will need the colours to represent the festivals, be clear, lively and fun and also work overall throughout the app.

One thing we will have to decide before we start illustrating is the dimensions we want to set for the headers. we will need them to fit on the home screen as tiles.