Interactive Section and Overall Progress

The Interactive Menu had to be composed correctly in order to be navigated easily. This meant that planning was crucial. Several concepts and layout plans were produced before development of the menu took place. Concepts for the imagery and overall look were produced. This was a very important step to producing the final outcome. This was done by Jaz:

After, the concepts and plans were then adapted to create an overall continuous style through the whole piece, by myself. I then applied Action Script and animation to the imagery to create the final menu in flash, it was then exported as a flash file for use in a website. 

Screenshot showing the scripting process

The Final Interactive Experience

I am very happy with how this has developed and the final outcome, along with the introductory animation represents the book very well. I feel that we have completed the needs of the brief successfully and hope the client agrees. 

Issue's With Flash Security

Sadly the 'Experience' doesn't preview properly on university computers due to issues with security settings. The links within the experience are blocked due to flash security settings and these cannot be changed by non administrator users. This problem only occurs due to us previewing from university computers, if the piece was live on the internet, the security issue wouldn't appear.

Final Introductory Animation

Here's the final animation produced by David and myself:

http://youtu.be/nWbj6euKQGY

We're really happy with the results!

Targets for Monday 15th April 2013

World- other websites

Floating quotes
Fish- other groups work (screen shot)
Book- complete journey
1-    Paragraph
2-    2 paragraph
picture frame- lindas photos
 Liam
Screen shots groups work
Backboard photos
The changes and animation interactive.
 

Jaz
Other websites
Paragraph
quote
 
David
fix up story board
Rabbit hole
Presentation

Meeting 13

Meeting held on: Friday 12^th April

Location: Skype

Attendance: JK (Project Manager) LH (Team Member) DW (Team Member)

Apologies: None

No.	Raised by	Item		Action by
1	JK	Greetings	Greeting and Apologies for not attending on Monday	JK
2	JK	Progress	Checking were we are all at the point we need to be	ALL
3	LH	Targets	LH explains that he is on target and needs to finish coding some interactive for Monday	ALL
4	DW	Targets	Has to amend final touches on the rabbit hole for Monday to give to LH	ALL
5	JK	Meeting	Next meeting to be held on Monday 15th April	ALL

Meeting 12

Meeting held on: Monday 8^th April 2013

Location: Cantor 9200

Attendance: JK (Project Manager) LH (Team Member) DW (Team Member)

Apologies: JK’s Absence, LH postponing the meeting.

No.	Raised by	Item		Action by
1	LH	Present	LH presented his work (Introductory animation) to DW. LH received positive feedback from DW.	DW LH
2	DW	Present	DW presented CGI work. It was also met with positive feedback yet constructive comments from LH were given.	DW LH
3	TUTOR	Critique	Ken gave feedback on current work. LH was told to ad a vignette to the animation and DW was told to alter the font choice for the CGI section	DW LH
4	LH DW	Improve work	DW and LH improved their work based on each others comments and the tutor.	All
5	JK	Meeting	Next meeting will be held on Friday 12th April 2013 for JK to catch up on missed events.	All

Animation Improvements

After a visit from our client, a few issues within the animation were spotted. This included rather simple mistakes such as spelling and grammatical issues. They were soon rectified. Two improvements, from our lecturer, were also suggested. One suggestion was that I should add a vignette to the piece to add visual depth, this was soon applied:

I think this has definitely improve the look of the piece and help create the cutout, handmade look.

Another suggestion was that the font from the 3D 'Rabbit Hole' section also should be changed to suit the fonts in the 2D section. I have given David the fonts and he should be changing it accordingly.