Just came back from shooting our photos.
We decided to shoot our photos in a home office. We didn't shoot in a bedroom due to possible lack of interactive features. We will spend the remaining of the day doing some colour correction and organising the photos together.
Below are some photos Luke took of our setup, and our photo shooting process. Luke took these photos using his mobile phone. In all we managed to take 95 photos. We used Brent's camera and he was the one who took the images since he knew how to use the camera.
All in all, it went really well and I am very pleased with the photos that were taken.
I am looking forward to see how the project will work once it has been put together.
So, i have been without my main workstation this week. My dads computer died and hes taken to using mine. Nonetheless i have been trying to make the most out of a bad situation. I have begun storyboarding, even though my drawings are terrible, they get the message across and effectively portray what the outcome will look like. I will hopefully be uploading some screen shots tomorrow.
I am very happy with the way our group has approached the assignment thus far. We are on top of our work and on time. Come Monday, we will look over the storyboards and hopefully get some photographs.
Today Luke and I worked on our list of items to include in our 360 degree room. We have split these items up into 12 categories listed below:
Light Switch/Curtains
Computing Devices
Electronic Goods
Rubbish
Battery Types
Temperature Settings
Switches and Adaptors
Light Bulbs
Brightness Settings
Printing
Digital Goods
Deodorant/Insect Sprays
We were short a member today (Brent) but we have seemed to remain productive and on track. This week we will complete our storyboards, list our items for the room and next week we will hopefully be ready to take photographs.
I am trying to locate a text to speech recognizer, in order to record and document our discussions. I have found one called Dragon, but it is only free for iphone.
Displayed below is the table we were working on today for the items in our bedroom. It isn't yet finished, but the table outlines the major areas we will be covering in this room. We are still throwing ideas in the air about how our final product will perform and educate the audience. When the storyboards / room sketches are complete we will have a clear vision of what our outcome will look like and how it will perform.
For our group research assignment we will be re-creating a bedroom using photos in order to manipulate a 3D environment. Our final product will incorporate text, sound, motion graphics, and interactivity, supplying the user with knowledge and raising their awareness on sustainability within the household and dispelling any misconceptions they may have about sustainability.
The user will explore the interactive by scrolling horizontally through the scene and finding the twelve interactive objects. The objects will display sustainability issues and how to approach these problems in order to achieve a more sustainable outcome. We will incorporate a scoring system into the interactive using money as an indicator of score. The user will be able to save more money by introducing more sustainable outcome.
The reason we have chosen to use money as our scoring system is because people want to save money, more than ever. By using this interactive, if people can see they will save money, they are more likely to absorb the information included in our interactive.
Our target audience for this interactive will be people who are either misinformed about sustainability in their home or people who would like to become more sustainable.
We will create the room by taking photos at 30-degree increments from the center of the room in a 360-degree circle. We will then use the photomerge tool in Adobe Photoshop to turn it into a panoramic image. Below is an example of what we expect the outcome to look like.
We have distributed our workload evenly amongst us. Listed here in order is the process we will be going through in order to create the interactive; highlighted in yellow are the processes I will be involved in.
In order to create the room we will be using, we will take multiple photos of the room and then string them together using photoshop, creating an almost 3D environment the user will be able to explore.
Below is an example of the room, which Brent strung together using photoshop.
Today we had a re briefing for our assignment. We have decided to include sound in our assignment as our target audience would feel more engaged with audio rather than reading text. Our target audience will not necessary be a specific aged group, but rather those who don't know much about sustainability and want to become more sustainable around the home.
Below is a demonstration I made using illustrator. When an interactive feature is displayed it becomes highlighted, indicating that it is interactive. When the user clicks the highlighted image then additional information is displayed along with the audio.
Today we formed our groups. Brent, Luke and I all formed a group. Our topic for this assignment is sustainability. We chose to base our project around sustainability in the home. We are focusing on one room which will be the bedroom. We chose to do only one room of the house because that way we could provide a more detailed response.
We decided to make the bedroom into a 3D environment. We will construct the room using photos, we chose to use photos as this will give the user a more realistic environment to explore. The user will navigate the 3D environment and select certain objects in order to turn them on and off and find additional information on the item. For example: If the user clicked a light switch, it would turn the light switch off and a text box would display the amount of energy that can be saved by turning a light switch off.
Here is a list of the items we are currently planning to include into the bedroom:
Room: Bedroom
• Light switch/curtains -Appropriate times to have it on (when/duration)
