Week 5

29/07/2013

I post on facebook asking whether my teammates can gather monday after to refine our storyline and discuss what we should during Alpha and beta. Beside that we need to create a stronger objective or vision/

30/07/2013

We meet up after class at my place. Base on the feedback we get from the presentation, we start to refine a bit of the story and start to create a new story plot. We divide the story into 7 sections. First, intro, then turtle section, orang utan section, rhino section, honey bear section, tiger section and how human can change the world section.

After settle one of the feedback, we move to other feedback. We discuss about how we going to prepare for our Alpha and beta test. For Alpha i suggest that we need to create a checklist to check our progress and some internet survey about what can we improve and is everything ready. For beta we will be creating some survey form and do some onside recording interview from the people that come visit our beta testing.

Next after Alpha and Beta we discuss how to make our installation stronger and more meaningful. I suggestion that we can use the idea of donation to help out of idea. All the money we collected can be donate to the animal protection association. The group kind of ok with the idea and we start to think how we come out something by using technical and i realise that we can use light sensor to create a donation box and when user put in donation it will trigger to start the animation and user can stay paddling through the animation and get the information. And when user see the animal they use their to hover on the animal and it will pop out some infographic about the animal. And we can use the software the Jazmi show to us in class to accomplish this idea.

After checking all feedback and fixing most of the problem for our proposal. I check on everyone work progress to find out what had they do. Gerry tell me he find the code. Kah Suit say he will start up some sketching and base on the gantt chart we should digitalizing the sketch already. Leon is doing very well. He is the one that have the faster progress. Me myself report my progress as well. I tell my team that IIS had been book equipment have be book as well. In our proposal, we propose that maybe we will be using kinect camera so i kind ask the team members whether they got friend or cousin that had xbox kinect camera and ask them to find out and let me know. Me myself also will ask from friend as well. And for arduino i had already check online where is their shop and planning to go get the product by this week so technical can have the physical product to test with. 

Kah Suit ask me for the design so that her father to start to build the boat. I copy the files and send it to her as soon i done some refinement .

After the meeting we try find some images and did some digital design as a reference to show the lecturer our progress.

So I start up helping design to find references of animal images. I also ask Kah Suit please tell what we can help her. But during that moment she just call find references. I also help her to create some vector design as well but is not really the style she wanted. So i ask her to show a reference of what she want so i can trace it for her.

the one i first did (before getting benchmark from Kah Suit)

I trace the reference that Kah Suit ask me to trace.

Gerry the technical leader had find the coding to trigger the animation by using Actionscript 3 and we tested out by using simple box and the element in the animation. Using clicking as paddle to play the animation.

31/07/2013

During the class we propose our new idea to lecturers during the class and tutorial section to update what are our group progress. We tell our new story flow and how trigger the installation and our group objective and vision.

After finish sharing our idea, we straight away get feedback from the lecturer. Asking whether can finish on time when there are so many element that we need to create and can we explain more detail in the different section and what happen in the section. And when the lecturer heard that we need to deal with donation and money. They ask us to be careful and if really want to do donation we need to find where is the place to donate the money. I am holder for diploma of event and been an intern before so i kind of know the progress when come to handling money and donation and we need to get some permit. And i actually think about this problem, because we are doing this interactive installation just as a prototype so that we can help WWF for future exhibition and so-on. So for the donation we create a fake coin when user try it during the exhibition.

As jazmi say that the animal we use can be more base on Malaysia endanger animal. And our intro is we paddle from sea to river and Jazmi say that the idea is very weird and we mind think of cutting down some animal just focus on few.

Then we show some of our design and our technical to lecturer, for the section no much comment but calling us to progress our work faster because there not much time left.

After the tutorial we continue on doing some design so the animation can start early and base on the feedback we get we try find out some solution. So i order my team to start their work earlier on their work. I also ask the content leader and the team to find some information about endanger animal in Malaysia. At the mean time, I asked whether other group wanted to buy and turn out wilson group also using arduino and i told them the location and discuss with Sue min when can we go together to get the arduino. We planned to go at 8 August to get the equipment right after we finish our class.

Then i continue back to my team and discuss and do some design and animation and this what i did during and after the class.

I also found some animal images for referencing