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.

Revised 'Map' for Interactive Experience

Animation Progress

The animation is almost complete. Traditional techniques were replicated using digital software, such as Adobe Flash, Photoshop and Premiere, to create the animation’s chosen design style in a short time period to a high standard. It was very important to create the piece to meet the expectations of the client in the time frame provided. Both hand drawn animation and computer ‘tweened’ animation are being used to produce the animation. I am very happy with the outcome yet it has taken longer than expected. However the animation will still be completed in plenty of time for myself to be able to animate and code the interactive section.

Meeting 11

Meeting held on: Monday 18^th March 2013

Location: Cantor 9200

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

Apologies: None

No.	Raised by	Item		Action by
1	JK	Tasks	Checks to see if every one is on schedule Also make sure everyone has documents and work that they need from each to work on over the Easter period	All
2	JK	Tasks	As DW was absent last week he share the work he had to give ready to insert into the presentation	DW JK
3	All	Tasks	Everyone gets on with task they have been given DW: Create 3d rabbit hole for part one And for part two JK: Finish any alterations to the interactive world and give to LH LH: Finish any alteration for part one of animation and start to make interactive world interactive	All
4	JK	Check up	Checks every one knows what they have to get done by the time we return after Easter	All
5	JK	Meeting	Next meeting will be held on Monday 8th April 2013 Unless a meeting is need over the Easter period we can arrange one	All

Meeting 10

Meeting held on:  Monday 11^th March 2013

Location: 9200

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

Apologies: DW (Team Member) Absent

No.	Raised by	Item		Action by
1	Jk	Task given	Checked to see if me and LH were up to schedule with the tasks and whether we are hitting deadlines	All
2	JK	Tasks	Showed my efforts of creating the world was struggling a bit	JK
3	LH	Tasks	On schedule and proved to show good work	LH
4	LH	Flash	LH decided to help JK to show her bit more about flash	All
5	JK	Flash	Appreciated the help off LH and JK has a better understanding so getting on with creating and finishing the interactive world for next week	JK
6	LH	Flash	Carry’s on finishing part one of the animation for next week	LH
7	JK	Meeting	Next meeting for Monday 18th March 2013	All

Idea Development

We have recently been developing and expanding upon the ideas for our project, we divided our plans between the three of us and created storyboards for every section of the project. The section which I pre-visulized was an extract from the story which would be animated, viewers would be able to click a link which would lead them to an animation created in the paper cut out style which is being used consistently throughout the project, this would then have a voice over reading an extract from the story. The purpose of this would be to intrigue the viewr and make them want to see more of the book.

After creating the first proposed shot shown above, I decided that it was a strange angle and so developped the idea further by storyboarding an alternative begining, with a different angle.