Research and Data Collection

Today was a pivotal day for the project. I met up with a group of international students who I am working with for Send & Receive to discuss this with them, as well as collect data for the project of a typical student flat.

The quality of the photos isn't great, but it demonstrates what I want to do at least.

I started by asking if there were any English words that they have learnt while being here. All of these were documented and can be found in the appendix.

Secondly, I toured the flat with them then picked out awkward words to see if they knew them. All the words they did not know in English I wrote down and got the translations for. In this image, it was all the things with red dots on.

I later met Olga to translate more words into Russian. Because I was working with international students who already had an understanding of language, Graham pointed out that the project should have fun element and include some less obvious words and scenes. I thus decided to include a red light district.