Today was a normal working day for all of us. While our computer scientists started their workday in Chinatown, we mediamaticians spent the morning in our home office. Our tasks today included sorting and editing videos as well as creating a PowerPoint. The computer scientists continued to work on various simulations for the project of the startup and were very busy the whole day. From our project (the video) I can say that we have made progress, because in the evening we already had a first version of it. One difficulty was that we always cut to the beat of the music and therefore often had trouble choosing the perfect cut from the whole video.

I (Chiara) was working on the design for the PowerPoint template for the tech startup. They wanted a template that could be easily modified. So for me this meant that I had to create the design elements in PowerPoint and not in Illustrator as usual. It was a bit of a challenge because you only have limited options for the design of the individual elements compared to Illustrator. At eleven o’clock Noemi and I were already eating lunch and had the leftovers. We ate so early because we had a 1:00 p.m. appointment in Chinatown. So we packed our equipment in time and went. I personally find the office in Chinatown very nice. It is very bright and has plants everywhere and is also very modern. The only stupid thing is that it is on the sixth floor. Theoretically, it would have an elevator, which we could use, but it does not really meet the “Swiss expectations” of an elevator and for this reason we always take the stairs.