This week, I think we did really good job in the exhibition. Everything works as we expected. although there is some bugs in the playing game animation and high demand for fixation of the projects position, i show lecturer,tutors and visitors a perfect job. The most exciting thing is that our project will be exhibited on the open day. lol,lol.....so happy to see the result that we fight for. i will graduate this semester so that i could not attend the open day this August. but i am so appreciate our project receive recognition from lecturer,tutors and visitors.
At the end, i want to say thank you. thanks Stephen, thanks Marie, thanks Dekker. i know only "thank you "is not enough to describe how i appreciate. But really, thank your guys very much~ Without you guys, our project is nothing!!! Thanks for teaching us a lot!!!
Physical book: This week Stephen gave us suggestion that don’t tie all the pages together by burrow the edge of the book. It will be influent a good looking of the book. Even he tries to help us to modify without redo the physical book. After we discussed, redo the book is the best way to show the high quality to the audience. So redo the physic book is our main works in this week.
Animation part: Last week, all animations finished the final vision. So this week, I start to import the sound effects into our flash animations. Because we didn’t play any musical instrument, I do some research about the copyright free background music. Then, I use the recorder and Cool edit to record and edit the animal voice. I try to make the voice without the surrounding noise.
From this week, we are work together with our individual wroks.
This week we finished the first vision of each page of the book. We want to get feedback from lecturers and tutors. So we have not tied together all pages of the book.
Animation part:I have finished all the animation last week. But this week I had to adjust all animations in the right size (800pix X 600pix), high solution.
This week, i finished the last two animations. the first page animation was playing with high solution. But the quiz flash, but the coding part has some problem that i need get help from Dekker. I were get used to write coding in AS2.0, and get lost completely in the As 3.0 language this time. But thanks Dekker taught me a lot so that i could understand how is that work in AS3.0. I think i know what i need to learn next. Yes, it is AS3.0. AS3.0 will be needed in my future work. Here also post ink of those two original vision of animations: First page animation:http://up.qzone.net.cn/flash6/20090612060035_anmation1.swf Link for quiz:http://up.qzone.net.cn/flash6/20090612050358_quizas3.swf
From this week, our team was breakin down. each of us do the individual task. My responsible for the 3 pages animation.
Following the result of interview, we realize that animal characters will be the favorite character for 4-6 children. Due to this book is preschool educational book, we are considering the theme would better be close to student life. So for the opening animation, we are try to represent some animal students are going to school in the forest. there are some characters that i have create this week.
This week Lin and me are responsible for doing the interview. According to our teammates and tutors and lecturer discussed, we decided to design a book for 4-6 age children, named interactive story book. Stephen and marine suggest our do a few interview, knowing how to design the book suit for their children. This is our interview questions.
Questions: 1.Do your children enjoy reading books?If they like reading, where do they like to read?What type of books do they like? 2.Have your children read any interactive books?If yes, can you describe what interactive activities they had?Did your child enjoy reading interactive books? 3.To what extent do you think it is good for children to learn reading with an interactive book?4.When do you think it would be good to use the interactive story book? 5.Where do you think it is good for children use the interactive story book? 6.Would you like to spend more time on accompanying your child to read the interactive story book each day? 7.What is your child’s favorite cartoon character? 8.What impact would the interactive story book have on your daily relationship between your children and you? 9.(show design suggestions of the interactive story book to the interviewed person)
In this week, we still need to do some research about some interactive books that already exist. We can obtain some ideas from those resources.
To attract children attention, we decide to create a pop-up book. This is good example of Pop-up book.
This is cool thing that people wave hand to turn over the page. this video give us idea for the quiz part, we can allow children wave hand to throw rubbish into the bin.
i love this video. at the begining, we have some thoughts about the book project on the floor. that like this. but we killed this idea, just this idea emerge from our mind. it is not enough physical work to achieve. But i still love this idea.
