13/11/2013 Final Exhibition

13//11/2013
Today is the final exhibition, we meet at IIS around 1030. I brought my camera, the arduino, the speaker, earphone and my laptop. I call gerry to bring the projector stand to the college. Since i am a bit late i call to tell Leon to buy mounting board and uhu gum so that i can build the box for the projector and some to cover the plug point.

I went to IT to collect the key and straight rush to the IIS room. I open the cupboard and bring out the thing that we wanted to use then i start to setup the installation while Gerry is still fixing the animation.
I start to put up the projector and to fit the cable through the holes that are special made to hide the wires. But the holes is a bit small for the connect point of the VGA cable so i use a knife to craft and make the holes bigger after that i stick the arduino box. Then i build the cover for the projector. After building the projector cover, i connect the cable to projector and start to tape the wires with masking tape. Then i borrow Gerry laptop to project some on the wall to check whether the projection was ok or not. We also text on the arduino check whether the arduino is working.

After that i set up the speaker and did a box to cover the extension plug point. After everything was settled, i ate my lunch and check on the proposal so that it can be printed to show the guests when they arrive. Then Kah Suit and Leon went to print it out.  I carry on placing the white cloth on the boat to form a seat for the guests. Then i go check on the animation that Gerry had finish and i saw the font and the infographic is a bit too fast so i told him to refine the speed then we do a test run again. Due to beta experience i need to do a few time of test run to confirm the animation is ok. Are we tried for three or four the full course with the help of our classmate which turn out everything fine. Then i start to masking tape the wires on the floor.

At 330pm the guests come to visit our exhibition and i represent my team to present and answer most of the question that are given and Kah Suit was in charge of taking down the comment and feedback and other group help us to record down our presentation with camera. Everything went smooth just the sound effect at the fire scene suddenly went burst and thanks to my experience in event i quickly soften the sound effect.

After that i am in charge to take photograph for the whole exhibition.

After the presentation is over. We gathered to had a sharing with the lecturer and I share my experience while being a leader and what had i learn throughout this installation. And i also help the class to ask for peers evaluation form for the class. After that some of friend in Graphic Design class come to pay a visit. We show what our installation is about and shoot some video to compile into our documentation.

We end up clearing out installation at 6pm. After clearing everything we took some group photo and class photo.

After dinner, i start to upload the photo i took to facebook so every other team can grab for their team documentation.

14/11/2013
Today we need to return everything to Fiona. And i made an appointment with Fiona at around 2 oclock. After class me and jeremy rush off to meet a client that are interest to ask us to create a website. And end up coming back late, while i arrived my team had already return the equipment. Before that i ask Kah Suit to take the peer evaluation form from the server.

Then the next thing is to move back our boat. We carry down the boat the first floor and i ask Gerry and Leon to carry the body of the boat back to my place first since it is going to rain and i will wait for Kah Suit car to fit in the boat's hear, the projector stand and the paddle. And luckily Kah Suit small little myvi just enough to fit those things. And while i went into the car it start to rain heavily, Kah Suit and me start to worry about Gerry and luckily they already arrived at home. I unload everything from Kah Suit car under the rain because i don't have any extra hand to hold an umbrella.

During the night, i post to ask my teammates to meet up at the library at 11am so that we can submit our documentation to the server.

I uploaded all the photo and sketches i had to the facebook page because is in charge of organizing the photo.

15/11/2013
We meet up in library and i go through the proposal for the last time and i ask Leon and Shabu to print out the photo and stick the sketch on the proposal so that we can submit. After printing and binding Kah Suit burn the document into a DVD and i fill up the CD cover and assignment cover sheet. When everything done, we submit our self evaluation and peer evaluation to the server. Then we pass up our proposal to Shahnim and sign the submission form in front of MM department.

Week 10

04/11/2013-9/11/2013

05/11/2013
Tuesday, I reply on Fiona to confirm that the equipment we wanted through email.

Come back after two week of rest, I got roughly an idea what should the interactive installation should be refine on. So first of all, i start to think on the big image how the installation need to refine for the exhibition. And base on the beta comment the most important thing we get was the audience or participant cannot get the information through the journey due the animation is not complete and the animation glitch that affect the whole use experience.

And base the time we have, the only thing we need to focus and to save the installation is to refine the animation and solve the glitch. And also the wiring too, although the lecturer did not comment much about that.

6/11/2013
So during wednesday, we went early to IIS to check whether our boat is still in one piece. When every gather, Gerry report that he fix the glitch and the animation is fine now. So i start to tell Gerry what i wanted the flash to look like . First, during the beta test that i wanted to make infographic into two section one is to introduce the animal and second part is the data of the drop animal rates which locate almost around the end. And i asked add in the fire scene because the impact and emotion that presented is not strong enough. Then i also told Kah Suit to do the graphic for the fire scene. Then i tell her how i imagine the fire scene, burning wood , fire and tiger there. She got some rough image in mind then she start draw. Then I tell leon the content leader to find some photo for the infographic in the animation because we got some feedback from the guest lecturer saying we can get some image to put side by side with the animation so that they can get more virtual information.

As for me i will help them like always, and for logistic i need to create a box for the projector and i need to find Fiona for a longer projector cable. Then i need to prepare and Speaker for the exhibition so involve the other audience that watching at the side. And i need to refinement the proposal and compile all the documentation.


Today class we start in the MMLab 4 for class and personal consultation for 2 hours. I share as leader what i tell my team to do and i also share a logistic leader what am i going to do and how many hours to finish it . I share our group progress to the lecturers.

After that, we head into IIS room to do out work and check what do we need to do. And Jazmi and Shahnim help me to find out the equipment room got a 10 meters vga cable for the projector and they ask me to apply from Fiona.

7/11/2013
After class we did our work at IIS and i need to collect the equipment from Fiona so we had our lunch then we call Fiona to get our equipment and ask for new equipment . So i collect the equipment and collect the new cable from Fiona and i signed the application paper.After that we start doing our work. I help Kah Suit to do some graphic and Gerry is doing the animation. I also sit down with Leon to talk about progress and our daily blog post. And we type out a google document to share what we had done every week in point form. We also came out a list what we need to put in the document and our proposal. I asked every one them to bring the sketches and photo they took . Beside that i also ask Kah Suit to create a poster by using our landing page in the animation.

Then me and Leon collected all the references we use before to do a harvard references for our project.


And this is some of the design i did for Kah Suit to add in to the final scene.

9/11/2013 - 10/11/2013

11/11/2013-12/11/2013

After i almost finishing all the graphic, we basically trying to focus on create the animation and the proposal. We refine and add the sketches, references and the photos. After that i adjust the content of the proposal so that we can print tomorrow before the the exhibition. I went to buy some mounting to build the case of the projector and went to print out the A3 and a4 size poster one to stick in front of the IIS one is to place at the boat. Then me and Kah Suit go to check out what is the progress of Gerry. 

After checking the infographic that placing at the city i found out it is a bit weird. So during the night, i told Kah Suit to created some billboard sign that we normally see in the highway. Then we place our infographic on it so it will look better together with the scene. 

Beta Test

27/08/2013

 Beta test today, is it the due date for our installation. Lecturers want us to finish 100% so that we know what our possibility. With the full installation we can get more qualified beta feedback from the invite guest.

I told the group member to wake up and meet up at my place so that we can move the boat to the IIS room. I wore t-shirt to carry the boat and equipment to the IIS room because i know will sweating a lot. When i reached i try set up everything first. I start by placing the boat on the correct spot. Then we start to bring out the projector and computer. After placing everything i try to check what are the thing i lack of so that i bring it when i go back to change. So after checking, i list down the things i need to bring from home and buy from vision art.

After placing everything in the IIS room then i rush back to my place to take a shower and change then i bring tina, screwdriver, electric drill and masking tape. Then i rush back to IIS to continue the setup again. I go buy another spare masking tape just in case it finish.

I first try to put the project cable to go through the wire's hole but the problem is the hole is too small. So i use the electric drill to make it bigger. I place everything on right place then i start to use masking tape to hide the wires. I use glue tag to stick the flex sensor box at the paddle spot. After that, i go on check on Gerry progress on the animation and seem like it is not ready yet. So i go check out on Kah Suit and Leon see what can they do. While i doing the logistic's thing, I tell Leon to create the survey for people to write down their comment because we are thing there will be some student come in and test. Then i ask Kah Suit to refine some graphic and create a new info graphic for the animation. Beside getting the emotion from the animation, they also can get some facts and static from the info graphic. Then i go check on Gerry progress which don't really look good. So i call him to remove the tiger since and merge it into the rhino scene so he no need to animate so many things and i try to do a finishing for animation so i come with fast contingency plan to solve the problem. I ask Kah Suit to create a sign board asking people donate and help in the ending and use the jetty i propose last time to show the user actually reach the city scene to show the jungle had already had been destroy.

Then i continue on my progress, take the cloth that i ask Jeremy bring for me to think what i can do with it and i realised that the boat seat is not the comfortable to seat. So i fold the cloth and place it and the seat. After Kah Suit and Leon finish their works, i ask a flavor from Leon to help us buy lunch so other can focus on their work. I asked Kah Suit to help me design a sign to show where are the place are fragile so i can print out and stick on the spot. I also create foot step sign to show where to place their foot.

After that i continue on masking taping the wires. After the sign is print out is stick on the spot i wanted. Then the boat almost ready just want for the animation to finish so that i can try it but is almost the time for presentation and we don't even have time to test run. While waiting me and Kah Suit rush to daiso to buy a RM5 pillow for the seat so it feel more comfortable. When we reach back Gerry say he done  what he do already and there are only 30 minutes left. And we are trying to connect the cable i realise that the cable is too short and do anything due to the time. So i just place the console and the side first and use thing to make it higher. We quickly try to do test run to test is that any error because the outcome is more important. I found out that are a lot of errors. i quickly ask Gerry to fix the major one before the beta test. But is too late.

some of the photo for our progress.

After this, we start our presentation and we are the second group and during that time i kind of report our problem to Jazmi about the cable and problem. But the presentation still go on and leon prepare the element that are gone in the animation at the side to show after the presentation. So i present the slide in front of all the guest lecturer because other don't really have time prepare for the presentation even myself. I use my own experience of how i present to client during my internship in event company to make the installation look better. During the Q&A me and leon answer most of the question and feedback and due the unfinished product we cannot really get more quality feedback and we didn't really use the survey form also because there are only guest lecturer that come and give us feedback and score.

After the presentation and feedback this is something that we list down for refinement and thing we can consider to change.

Beta Test

- visual glitch

- Find  where the leaves should be

- mark up the glitch problem

- The water is not a loop (make it move around)

- make sure the water continue

- extend the frame rate of the animals

- perspective problem

- variaty of tree distances

- make infographic appear between scene changes

- use logo

- show positive emotions

- show information in ryhtyms

- sound effect too soft

- make some tree fall into water and the sound effect

- make the packaging nice

- design must have continuity

- Show photo of real incidents

- How user going to contribute (How they can help?)

- Ask question such as “Do you know how a coin can help?”

- No awareness yet

- The art style is not consistent

- The feeling is important

- let the user feel the impact

- have the selling point

- show the statistics

- Have a intro or brief about WWF

After that we wait for the whole exhibition to end then we have a sharing about the presentation and what we learn through the beta test. During that time i am kind of emotion because as a leader i didn't push my team far enough to finish the product on time. And during most of the meeting i am the one that gave most of the idea which as a leader i don't have the ability to involve my team to share their idea.

Then i start to clean up our stuff and wait for fiona to collect the equipment for us. And we can only collect after semester break. So i tell my group to enjoy their sem break and when we come we need to do some refinement. I also tell gerry that to try to find out the bugs. Then we all went back to rest and continue on other subject assignment.

Week 9

24/08/2013 - 25/08/2013
Friday i ask my teammates to gather at IIS in the morning so we can move the boat back to my place so i can paint it. So we meet up at IIS and Leon is sick during that time but he also turn up to help us. We carry the boat all the way from College to Pjs9. I feel so lucky that my house is near to the college. When we arrive at my place we all already cover with sweat.

I bought some paint at Friday. and i start to polish the surface of the boat with sandpaper before i apply paint on it. Show the picture below show some of the progress i did for these few day. I use almost one day to polish the surface then apply a layer of white color paint on it and let dry. And this basically what i did during the weekend.

25/08/2013 - 26/08/2013

Kah Suit bring the extension box to me today. So i can start to paint on it .

After class i ask my team mate to come over my place so that i can check on their progress and then i continue paint my boat again.  After painting the boat, i help on design to create some of graphic that are need i also ask Leon to find more free vector design so that we can use in the animation.

I tell Gerry and Kah Suit how animation need to be animate. Then i created the hunter to show hunter hunting animal.

I also created a jetty for the Boat to land for the ending.

After check on the design that Kah Suit share on Facebook, i create a vector design of how it should be layer and upload to facebook to show Kah Suit.

I also find some of the city scene free vector i search online for Kah Suit. So she just need to apply texture and some colors.

At the meanwhile, Leon are helping Kah Suit to find more free vector so we can faster our progress. 

27/08/2013

After painting for the last three days, the paint is kind of not enough so during the break i bought some more white paint and some blue paint for the highlight. After class, we all gather at my place to boost our work. I continue on my boat so that it be exhibit tomorrow. Kah Suit was trying to finish up the design so that gerry are able to finish the second part of the animation.

Since Leon is almost done with his part i ask him to help Kah Suit to collect more city since photo since the City scene is still in progress.

After making sure everyone is doing their work, i went back to painting and fixing the boat. I double check every single part of the boat to check where are the spot that i miss out during my last painting. 

Before i came back i bought some mounting board to create a new slanted box for the projector since the previous is still not that steady.

After that i start painting on the boat again and the paddle with first layer then i apply another layer for the boat. After the boat dry i use ruler to measure and mark the size for the highlight that i am going to paint in blue. I use masking tape to separate the part to make sure that i will not paint out of line.

Then i still left a paddle to make but is hard to find wood now. So i ask Leon to help me buy a clipping board to clip paper that make of board. Then i break my broom stick then i modify by using sandpaper , saw and hammer. I spend quite sometime here finding people to borrow equipment and sawing the wood.

When i almost finish that i realised the time is kind of late already so i tell them to go back their house to do. Since Leon just recover. Since Kah Suit and Gerry said that they still left some part not done so i ask them to discuss on Facebook. Then i continue on my boat painting apply another layer of white color to make it look glossy. 

Due to the wire's holes that i give to Kah Suit father is too small so i ask Kah Suit to borrow one electric drill from her father so that i can make it bigger. So i drill some of the holes to make it double the size.

While waiting for it to dry i create a box for the flex sensor to hide it so that it can merge with the boat. So i measure the size and use the leftover of the mounting board to create the box.

After finish this, i find gerry to test it out with the boat and it turn out just nice. then i continue to touch up the boat and when i finish is almost 3 am. After taking a shower i check out how my group progress. At that time the design almost finish just left animation. But gerry already slept, i think he will wake up to do so i trust him and i continue on checking and refining the proposal and what are the thing i will need to do during the beta test.

I list down a list just in case:

1. Create new infographic
2. Proposal
3. Survey form
4. buy masking tape for wiring 
5. bring tina and drill just in case the projector cable cannot fit.

Week 8

17/08/2013

Today, after doing some other assignment I continue to find more free vector from internet to save time from tracing and ask which one Kah Suit will like to use so that i trace it and separate it into piece so is easier to animate it. 

And this the some of the posts i posted in facebook.

Kah Suit also facebook chat me how big is the size for the projector so that his father can make the stand for the projector. So i find the measurement of a projector and show it to Kah Suit. And her give make a slightly larger size just in case that size no accurate.

20/08/2013

Today morning Kah Suit told me that the boat will be arrived but not sure what is the time. So I need to inform Fiona so that i can carry the boat and put it into the IIS. Around 1 o'clock the boat arrive and Kah Suit told me to go down and carry the boat. So i ask a flavor from June to help me contact Fiona because is kind of emergency because i cant contact Fiona from the office. I rush to unload the boat from the lorry and carry it to IIS room waiting for Fiona to open. Luckily Fiona turn up just in time. After we place the boat into IIS i realise we are lack of one thing, the boat paddle. So i don't want give more trouble to Kah Suit's father so i plan to make it myself. After class we meet up in IIS room and show the boat to the group member. The boat turn up very nice and what i need to do is to paint it.

After checking the boat, we continue to do the design part. So that Gerry create the animation. I refine the lumberman the Leon create and help separate the part for the bird i early so Gerry is able to animate it. Beside that i also use the information that Leon find and summaries it to become infographic.

21/08/2013
Due to last week we didnt show much during the alpha test, we kind redo the alpha test today. As usual we meet up early in IIS room, and before that i get keys from IT department then start to set up the equipment and the placement of boat. Due to we got a boat so need to find the correct placement and setup the projector to make sure the size is correct. After i place the boat then we set up the projector and call Gerry sit in the boat since he is the tallest in our class and the result show that the bottom part of the projection is blocked by Gerry's head. Then i try to find a way to make it higher so we temporarily find a chair to make it higher until we get the height. So I mark down the height of the chair and ask whether Kah Suit can ask her father to do us flavor to create the extension box. Kah Suit called and she said that her sister will pick it up when she came back to subang. Beside that i need to create a slanted box for the projector show it can shoot at the eyes level. After making down everything we try to connect to gerry computer and project on the wall then i call gerry to connect the arduino so that we can test it whether it work or not.


As the lecturer arrived we show our group progress. We let the lecturer to try to sit on the boat and test the eyes level. Then i show them how we control the animation. Lecturers see the chair and ask us why. And i tell them the reason and how i solve it. 

Then i show the infographic that i have done and i got some feedback base on the font and all capital letter is hard for user to read and can include some photo inside and the color can try to match the design.

Jazmi also ask me to find out the best way to hide the cable and decorate the boat because the boat wood doesn't look that nice. I told him that i am actually planning move the boat back to my place and paint it. 

Then we continue show our progress. And the lecturer ask everyone of us to write down our own progress and show how much progress we still left and how much time we still need to complete our own department work. 

As a leader i need to write out the team progress and the solution and time slot to finish before beta test. So i write every possibility and problem we are going to solve as group and submit for check and sign. 

Beside that, we need a long wire for arduino and we ask Wilson team whether they have extra and we took some from his team. And since they are soldering there, we also borrow the soldering equipment that they borrow from Jam from MM department. I start to solder the wires to the flex sensor so it is longer. After finish soldering we test it again just in case the flex sensor is not broken and it turn out ok.  I also ask flavor from jeremy whether her mom have extra white cloth so that we use during the beta test. And he say he will get back to me on Friday.

And basically this is what i did today and i ask my team to follow the schedule they set and make sure they post their progress on group and ask them to ask for help if they need.

23/08/2013
Today i emailed Fiona to tell him that i will like to access to IIS at Saturday, so that i can move the boat back to my place so that i can paint the boat. During dinner class, i went to pyramid to buy some paint, brush and sandpaper so that i can paint the boat Saturday. Jeremy also reply me that the cloth is available and ask me about the measurement and i base on the boat's measurement and gave him the measurement.

Week 7

12/08/2013 - 13/08/2013 
Kah Suit pass me the arduino during the class so that i can take of it. I emailed our lecturer Jazmi to borrow the cable for kinect camera and he replied that he will bring it during the class and we need to pay him deposit and he will give us back the money when we return the cable. We gather again a day right before alpha to check up the progress. I also make a call to MM department so that we can meet up with Jam during wednesday class.

I start to worry about the progress since they didn't post much update beside leon. Kah Siut started on the graphic but the artstyle that being apply needed a lot of time to just finish on graphic. At another side, Gerry (technical) had source out the coding for flash. And i ask him to try animate with some object. So Gerry and i starting to find out how to animate object so that the code and trigger it easily so we kind done a prototype to test during the alpha test. 

Then i help out Kah Suit on creating the animal in the jungle so that she concentrate on designing the forest scene. I spend around 2 hours plus to create these animal. As for the tiger i download the free vector from internet and break it into part so that it is easier to animate. As for orangutan and rhino i trace it from the reference i found before.

I aslo trace out this tractor and upload it to facebook at 1am.

14/09/2013
I gather them to come to IIS 10am in the morning so that we can set up and do our work ! As usual as a logistic leader i head to IT department to get the locker key. Then i set up the computer with Leon while waiting for other to come. Gerry come after a while then Kah Suit because she wake up due to her rushing the graphic progress until very late. Then i order them to start their work and i go check whether Jam is free. when i go find him, he is helping another group to solve their problem and he is kind of busy at moment. So in the end we didn't get his help for that day. So i go back to IIS and continue doing design work. And gerry and Leon was testing the projector.

Because our starting page can be trigger ad but inside the graphic still haven't finish so inside is like some random graphic.

i found out the paddle didn't suit the graphic so i create another one on the spot.

Then i go help out gerry and leon on setting up the projector. Since we shooting from far and the screen in out of proportion so i did some adjustment and ask Kah Suit to take down a photo so that we can check back the set up.

During the alpha as a leader i know that we basically not yet ready for it. So when the lecturer was here, we try to show our progress and what we are facing and how we are going to solve it. So, i start from showing our group graphic side, which appear the lecturer feel quite happy with the artstyle but not so happy with the progress. Then the contents and song that were found by leon was checked by Jazmi. And he advise us to have more the 5 different splash sound so it sound more real when we randomize the sound. After i present our story that are refined, Shahnim say that we can have a loop to the story which means the ending and the start can be connected. And try to add in different climax. She also gave us some advice like maybe add in some voice over or narrative to help people stick with the story while exploring the nature.

Shahnim are very worry about our group progress so he ask us to write down the hours we need to finish the work. And ask us to capture picture every time we work for progress record purposes. She call to visualize the data if it is too much for us please cut down the story plot.
After that we show the animation we have got with random graphic. Lecturer seems to be ok with coding. Jazmi give us some advices that we can add in different speed and stop point for user to interact with video or animation. 

Since the animation don't have much graphic, Shahnim asked our group to create a prototype show that we can test with the projector. 


So i used 30 to 45 minutes to create a sample for the group to test.

After letting the lecturer had a brief idea that how our interaction will be they ask us to cut down the story plot from 5 to 3 section, then ask to discuss where to cut down and how to refine the story plot and focus on three animal. So that we can finish our progress on time.

After that, I gathered my team for a meeting to discuss how we cut down the story. And tell them we need to progress our work faster. Although there are other assignment need to rush but we need manage our times. So i ask them to write how many time they need for progress their work. I also tell Kah Suit to voice out when she needed helps. During the meeting we confirm that we are aiming on 5 section of the story. First, intro as what we discuss last time, then Orang Utan, Rhino and Tiger ( the three most endanger animal in Malaysia) and end up with people planting and saving the forest. We proposes the idea to the lecturer again, we were good to process.

Then i saw a post on facebook that Fiona help us to book a classroom with Jam in 15/08/2013 to solve our coding problem.

As we show the size of the projector, I realise the screen size is abit too small. I try to place in different place to make the screen bigger but in the end we need put the projector behind the boat. So quite sketch out and stand and wonder Kah Suit is able to call her father to create out the stand and send to us together with the boat.

15/08/2013
After class, me and gerry go for lunch and then we meet Jam at MMLAB 1 to solve our coding problem. Jam bring his previous coding and teach us how to connect arduino with flash. It take around 30 to 45 minutes then we settle the coding problem and we are able to trigger the animation through arduino and flex sensor.

I also check on the progress of the design and ask whether there are anything i can help and Kah Suit will update me at Friday.