Project 3: Distributed

Project 3 is done, now its matter of getting our site out there. I am not ideally impressed with our site but it does the job of our basis idea. I guess people who wants some humor and interested in creating short clips of themselves or anything, this site would be ideal.

Overall few of the advertisements are understandable what we are trying to say but others I think they were not clear. In a way they connect to each other where all of them evokes the idea of randomness.

Project 3: Distributed

On Monday we had an interim presentation where we showed what we have done so far. Didn't really get any comments about the corporate identity document but in terms of five advertisements, screensaver and site itself had some valuable feedback so we can do some improvements on them.

The advertisements seemed not related to each other where the content were so different and some confusions were seen. Jason's advertisement of video customization and Daniel's random chicken advertisement and Mark's random clips of him changing channels had no relation to each other and even the ending of our logo footage were not consistent.

As for the screensaver the idea was great how webcam feed was embedded with the video feeds and as well as irndm twitter comments but the comments were too small to read and needs to be enlarged so people can read them.

Site was improved compared to what we had in the first time. The length of the site was shortened and instructions were added so people can understand what the site is all about but it was suggested it is still not clear enough for user's instructions. This is beacuse there were some confusion about the duration of the videos. What users actually upload is short 10 second clips and by uploading multiples of clips they can remix them. When we talk about "remixing videos" it is about putting multiples of 10 second or shorter clips into one sequence or movie so the duration or length of the video does not matter. It can be as long as the user wanted to be. These 10 second clips can be rearranged and transitions can be changed. The result would be producing random vidoes that makes no sense because of the different arrangement possibilities.

There are still and more improvements can be contributed to the site. I guess the basis of the site is there but the functionality and the appearance of the site can be always improved.

Project 3: Distributed

Working progress of corporate identity document is going well. Had to produce different coloured logos when it was in black and white. It was about figuring out different alternatives to the logo when they are presented in different mediums and knowing the exact figures so other people can follow them. It is pretty straightforward what I have to produce after looking at examples of other corporate identity document. They all had similar contents and clear instructions on what to do and what can't be done to the logo.

Project 3: Distributed

I was assigned to do corporate identity document for our group. After looking at the examples of other documents I had some ideas on the content. These are the following categories that are essential in the document:

• Logo - explanation of meanings of the logo and alternatives
  
• Logo spacing - guideline of spacing between the logo
• Logo improper usages - outlining not to do with the logo
• Background - different areas to place the logo
• Colour - logo colour guide in different mediums
• Typography - fonts that we used
  

Project 3: Distributed

For project three we had to produce five ads, a screen saver and corporate identity guide for our brand "irndm". For one of the video I had an idea of morphing the logo into different shapes and sizes to show the idea of remixing.