final 1min video ( first aid awareness

Creating my 1min video ( storyboard)

Here are my storyboard ideas:

 And here is my final solutions:

1min video creative ( proposed design solution)

Then I started looking at more creative sales pitches videos, here are some 

that give me inspiration using storyboards:

I like this style , it seems so simple and straight to the point, not to sure yet

if i want to go for animation though, but still a great idea

I really like this idea of paper prototyping, i think seen as my idea is interactive hands on, this may

work better for my sales pitch. I've actually made one before and enjoyed the process and felt like it put my idea across nicely.

1min video ( proposed design solution )

Now that I have my idea worked out, for the first aid awareness project, i need to make

a short 1 minute video on the proposed design solution.

I've done some research on how to create a sales pitch for a product:

Taking the Dragons Den as my inspiration

I looked at some bad sales pitches:

 And some great sales pitches, with great ideas;

This idea here the i teddy, which is a genius idea and a well rehearsed enthusiastic pitch:

I absolutely love levi roots idea and his pitch, it was different, caught the audience's attention

and was rehearsed down to a T.

Brain storming

Here I have been brainstorming and sketching up numerous scenarios

Interactive Whiteboards

In order for me to get the First Aid training across for kids I feel

an interactive whiteboard will benefit this. For classroom activities this will help all kids participate and learn together. Heres a short video of how interactive whiteboards benefit Teachers and kids:

How to design for interactive whiteboards:

After extensive research on interactive white boards, I downloaded a free software called Mimio Studio notebook, this is one of the software's you can use to create an interactive whiteboard activity, I wanted to see how it works, which was very interesting. heres the link:

 http://www.mimio.com/en-EM/Support/Downloads/SoftwareDownload.aspx?SW=9.12&OS=Windows&dlLang=English

Although I don't have any of the MimioStudio products to use it, I  was still able to get the jist of how it works, which is pretty simple enough. For the end result I will want my idea been used through this software. For now I'm going to design mine on Indesign so I can show how the interactive parts work, and how you can move around and arrange objects. This idea for first aid and using the interactive whiteboard will help in engage all the kids in this learning process.

E books (apps)

So you read the ebook first then the child can participate in the activities, this is the kind of idea i'm looking to design but using an interactive whiteboard instead, this way all the kids can participate together

                                     Activity one is matching the names to the characters

Its a great learning process, I think this would be a great idea for learning first aid

I sketched up this idea from the examples I've researched:

For this ebook idea, I was thinking of creating a little story that requires selecting objects

for certain scenarios. For example  ring 999, go grab the first aid kit, grab a glass of water, or move the victim. Then the child can select from the side panel which object should be used first.

A game or ebook that they can all use together.

I quite like this idea also, its a BBC school game called " Out Of Place"

You basically match the objects to the right picture. This could be a great idea for my Ebook .

Pro : three First Aid Aware

Research 

First Aid education for children

Animation ideas:

4-7 years old

This first aid video is a paper prototype animation

I quite like this idea, using the alphabet for safety

This animation is my favorite, I like the the fact that there is humor in it,
and using animals to make it more interesting to watch.

puzzle game ideas:
4-7 years old

Interactive toys:

The iteddy was my first idea for first aid toys, i think its a perfect example.

The teddy bear has a detachable personal media player built in, allowing kids to play their favourite cartoons, bedtime story's etc.

This idea i  like alot, it has brought me to an idea of using cuddly toys for first aid.

Maybe use this kind of idea, putting on plasters baddages etc

Using this style of idea for the number 911

 Rhymes story books:

This idea for me if i'm looking at 4 to say maybe 7 years age, would work.

 rhymes our catchy, easy to understand and very easy to learn. Here's some interactive children story book ideas:

 Interactive ebooks
these books are filled with engaging activities, each book inspires young childrens creativity and imagination in a uniquely enjoyable and interactive way.

i think would be a great idea, this idea could help the child understand better what to do incase of emergencies.

Final logo ideas

After selecting my logo design of type and image, I deciding now were to place the cow image

I'm leaving the text were it is , quite happy with its position.

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I've finally decided that this way is better, and ive also added some grass parts for extra touch, i think it works nicely together :

Final logo

Final Letter head:

Final Business card:

 Complimentary slip :

I tried the email address's in a different color to see if it would make a difference, to match the green grass. Not  sure if it goes. Undecided yet with it.

pro 2 : Identity Design Development 2 ( IMAGE)

Some sketches of different styles of cows, I'm looking for an animated effect. The name "Crafty Cows" I will incorporate into the animation. I want the cow character to look very crafty!

Final Cow idea:

pro 2: Identity Design Development ( TYPE )

Uppercase or lower case ?

& alignment ideas:

Developing Logo Type style:

Now that I've chosen my style of type, i was still unsure to Uppercase or lower case & large or small type:

After carefull consideration I decided to go for the slightly larger lowercase type, for me it looked the best.

Final Logo type style:

PRO TWO Identity

Process

This next brief is a 24hr one, but we were giving a week instead to do it, due to other work to be handed in..So basically I am to do a graphic representation that identifies a company, product,or brand. As we all know it "A logo". The first step to take within this process will be :

1. Research and Ideation:

Well firstly I've decided to do a small online company which is my brother and his partner online business " Crafty Cows". They are an upcoming business that  specialize in gift-ware  personalized items for everyday or for that someone special.                                            

 Here is Crafty Cows original logo image:

Here are some examples of Crafty Cow's work, All their work is hand made,
hand written &also hand painted :

Thoughts for potential logo: Looking at their work, I noticed that they use a certain style of writing for each gift, at the tip of each letter they add a little dot which is quite a lovely we effect and very distinctive, which flows very nicely together, here's an example their type:

I feel this style should also be incorporated into the company name, an would flow very nicely together. I'm getting the feel for something really simplistic, maybe even incorporate their plaque style into the logo. As their work is all hand made, I would like to also incorporate this style into the logo. Nothing decided yet but just a few ideas i think i could potentially work for the business card/Letter head/ Complimentary slip & logo. I asked Crafty Cows did they have an specific style they wanted me to design and they said: 

"keep it very plain, with a wee cow

so that it doesn't take away

from the name"

                                Research/Inspiration

Here are some simplistic logo styles I came across:

These simplistic ideas are styles that I will be looking to achieve, to design a really strong image & type. I feel these logos are perfect an example.

My final istory book....

Finally i've got here, i'm very chuffed with my outcome, I do still feel there's bits of tweeking that I would like to later for my portfolio but for now this is my finished product.

  

A rough copy of my istory book

After taking all the pages of the book into after effects and creating an animated page turn and animated txt i then rendered all. Using ram preview i used my camera to video it so it would have an effect of like using it on an iphone which i am going to try and create for my final piece. This a rough copy of how it will look minus the voice over and atmosphere sounds:

After taking this into premeire pro and using the crop tool, it turned out very pixelated.

And you cant see the txt or anything, so when i crop it again i'm going to have to scale it up.Hopeful it will look better than this .

Animated page turns finished

Okay this is my final animated page turns featuring my story book.

Because there is ten pages in the book and that's including front and back cover

it took a pretty long time.

Here is the tutorial i followed to accomplish my animated page turner, was very easy and simple to understand, great tutorial 

Animated idea ( after effects )

Here is a rough clip that i done up in after effects, to show use 

how my page turn effect will look :

istory apps (Interactive stories for kids)

My original idea was to create a kids story book, but taking a more modern approach to it, I thought why not make it an istory app. Basically its interactive stories for kids. Its funny I've never heard of istories until the other day when i seen my brother showing his son a little book, the istory book had a voice over to read out the story and it had animated page turns, and very cool sound effects. I thought what a great idea for kids. After class critique my lecture also touched on the point that I should look into istory apps, which has now lead me to this stage now of the process. Here are some of examples of how istory apps look like :

This example here shows you that you can slide through to different books