Blue Print

Introduction: (Min 1 Page/s)

Please see THIS link for a description of the concept

Typical User:

Who is going to use / view your project? What age groups, job types, gender etc – and WHY

Interaction:

            How will people interact with this? Do you have to attract attention to get people to use your product? Talk about interactivity in general and explain how interactivity is crucial to your project.

Competition / Context:

What else is out there on the market that does a similar job or is in the same/similar genre? Explain what market research methods you found eg viral marketing etc and which you employed here.

Planning and Designing: (Min 1 Page/s plus sketches)

Ideas: brainstorming; mood boards; pre-visualisation eg layout sketches, storyboards; user interface; visual style eg colour palettes, typography; sounds; animations; interactivity

Assets: existing; to be created

Legal and ethical considerations: legal eg copyright; ethical eg confidentiality, privacy, decency, libel; representation eg race, gender, religion, sexuality

Usage Profile: (Min 1 Page/s)

·         Product Configuration:

·         Will it be a Director Projector? Mac and PC? Web Pages? Etc

·         Project Goal:

·         What is the point of your project – why would people use / view / visit it?

·         Creative Considerations:

·         Describe the overall look and feel you are trying to get. What visual style will you employ? What are the audio visual cues? Feedback? Visual styles? Genres?

·         Technical Considerations:

·         Describe any technical parameters or limits. What can you do/not do with the technology?

·         Media:

·         What media will it use? JPG? QuickTime? Flash? TXT? MP3? Etc. will the user need to have any special software to run it?

Stakeholders: (Min 1 Page/s)

Explain: Stakeholders: eg venture capitalists, franchise holders, publishers, producers, design team members, community (micro-donations)

Package: (Min 1 Page/s plus sketches)

Describe the Packaging concept – what does it look like? What form will it take?

Illustrate existing examples that you have to compete against.

There are only a few legal things that I have to worry, is that the pictures of Newport and copyright issues.I have used these pictures to identify places/landmarks from Newport.
This is for people who to know things about landmarks and places in Newport, I would like to think people would have no problem using my app. It is simple and useful and easy for anyone that will use it.



The media that this project will use is PNG files, JPEG files, because this project wont need any special programs to run it.



The packaging was an empty shoe box with my design all over it, with the DVD case stuck in side of the lid of the box with more of my design on it, the design for the box is on my other posts of this blog.






 A franchise holder, person who can purchase rights and agreements for a companies trademark/name. A franchisee must use and follow rules/guidelines when they have purchased an franchise from a franchisor. 

 A publisher is an person or  a company responsible for creating/designing/distributing/digital/printed items.

3 interactive exisiting products

Interactive product 1.

ATM.

Atm or automated telling machine or automatic telling machine is a cash machine which allows people to take finical transactions without a cashier.

The idea of ATM is to be a self-service in retail banking; the first ATM was in use in the early 1959 era in a shopping centre in

ATM’s or cashpoints are placed outside a banks for quick access instead of going into the bank itself, you can also have the ATM’s or cashpoints in small shops/corner shops, major supermarkets, airports, petrol stations and in restaurants. You can find these anyway today so you can make financial transactions so you won’t be stuck for money.

ATM’s are connected to a interbank network which then allows people to make and withdraw and also deposit money from the ATM or cashpoints not belonging to the bank that they are with. ATM’s reply on authorization of financial transactions by the card issue holder. Some ATM’s will charge you for using the ATM or cashpoint which apply to everyone using that certain ATM no matter what bank they are with.
ATM’s or cashpoint have other uses than just financial transactions, you can pay bills such as phone bills and taxes, printing bank statements of, topping up your mobile phone.



Interactive Product 2.


Google maps

Google maps are a web map application which is provided by Google, it powers mostly every map based services. It offers a street map view, a route guide for either travelling in car, bike, and public transport or even by foot.  Google maps images are from a satellite but these images are not updated with real time.

You can use Google maps for everyday use; you can use Google maps in a teaching environment so that a teacher can show students/pupils different places from around the world. You can use it for directions to look at street environment and establishments. Google maps can be useful for a hub of knowledge, so that the user can see the location of things in their area, also Google can also dot links to YouTube and information in your area that you are looking at.

Google maps was released in 2005, it is compatible for windows, Macs and mostly any other computer. It was sooner made for download as an app; people with android phones can use Google maps on their phone. Most people use Google maps to add it to their own.


Interactive product 3.

interactive tv.

 Interactive tv is a device  which allows a user/viewer to interact with the tv. The use of interactive tv is a different kind of interactivity which are both used as usage and teconogly.

The easiest form of interactivity with a tv is the common and well know remote which allows you to surf the channels and to pause and to rewind. Even though this is an type of interactivity, people claim that using a remote is like turning a page of a book so they claim turning the pages makes the book interactive.


Interactive television projects are consumer electronics boxes which provide set-top interactivity, while other projects are supplied by the cable television companies, multiple system operator or  a system-wide solution. Even other, newer, approaches integrate the interactive functionality in the TV, thus negating the need for a separate box. Some examples of interactive television include.

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Brainstorm of Director piece

What I have done

My Town project.

Over view on what I have done for this project.

For this project I  started to do a brain storm of ideas, coming up with ideas describing places in newport, for example like the rugby ground, retail park, leisure centre and many more other places in Newport. I used a website called Bubbl.us which allows you to make a brainstorm. this can be found in an earlier post that I have done on this. I soon had a fair amount of ideas listed so then i had to pick 6 ideas and research them, I had the six ideas ready which were, Transporter bridge, Newport Castle, the Riverfront, City Centre, Newport Docks, Newport County. After I had these six ideas I researched them and wrote important things about them these can be found in other post on my blog. The links from the websites that I used can also be found on my blog. I had to search for a suitable picture showing all of Newport  this was tricky as there was not any decent pictures that I could find.

I came up with this idea because I didn't want to do anything similar to anyone in my class, and after checking that no one had the same idea as me, I decided to make a easy to use app and also making it educational using monuments from Newport.

The next thing I had to do was come up with was what I was going to do as my director piece  I had one idea that I wanted to do straight away so i had to think how I was going to make it. The idea I had was to have a map of Newport showing mostly what Newport has to offer and then having a dice in the corner.



The dice would be made piece by piece in Photoshop, I had to make each piece of the dice separately after making one side of the dice , i created a new layer and made the next side of the dice, doing this six times in total to represent an actual dice. This was fairly easy to make because all I had to do was make the first side of the dice and then add more circles to the next one. I used a template of a dice for the first one making it easier to make the others, then I added outer glow to dots on the dice to give it a more realistic look.


After I had made the dice the next thing I did was to go to director and start my director piece  i found a suitable picture of Newport and imported all of the stuff i was going to need to create my director piece.

So firstly I had the picture of Newport as a background and then put a stop button on it so it wouldn't move it would be a still image and then i added a play button which would take you to the next part of my director piece and also a quit button so it would quit my director piece  After doing this i moved on to the next frame and then added my picture I was going to use and then also put a stop button on it. Then i added my dice to the picture and moved it to the bottom of my picture so it wouldn't take up much space. Then I had to set the dice to randomized to a different number after doing this I added the first piece of information which i did, after added this piece of information i had to put a back button on the page so it would go back to the dice page, then i had to set the dice to assign with the piece of information. So i set the number 5 of the dice to the Transporter bridge information page. I had to do this 5 more times changing the dice number so it would be assigned to the next piece of information. I also had to put a delay from where the dice selected a number otherwise it would jump from page to page. After I did all this i had to check that syntax was correct and that my information spelling was all correct. By doing this you did not know what piece of information you was clicking on so it could send you to the same piece of information twice the power of randomizing.


Then I created a image on Photoshop of my town in different using colours which was hard because I didn't make anything like before, this this can be found in other post in my blog.

I'm going to present my director piece on DVD and have a box covered in my design and when you open the box a DVD case will stuck to the sided, and also my design inside .

Mabinogion

Mabinogion is the title which is given to eleven prose stories which collated from the Welsh medieval manuscripts. The tales are from a pre christian mythology, but some of the tales date back from the Iron age. Every one of the tales is a product  of highly developed Welsh medieval tradition both oral an also written. 

Lady Charlotte Guest was the first to publish translations of the Welsh collections and also popularising the word Mabinogion in the 19th century. 

The collections of stories consist the vast part of prose in the Welsh medieval manuscripts, which is not translated from any other language. The eleven stories are the main early manuscript sources of the White book of Rhydderch and also the Red book of Hergest. 

Four branches of Mabinogion are the most mythological tales in the Mabinogion collection.
Rhonabwy is the most literary of the Welsh medieval prose tales, it was also the last one to be written.


In Lady Charlotte Guest complications are 5 totalled tales from the Welsh Legend.

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There are three romance tales from the collection are Welsh versions of tales that appear in the work of Chretien De Troyes. Theres are doubts whether that the Welsh romances tales are based on Chretien's poems.

Welsh Music and Sport

Wales has a strong music tradition, and the Welsh land is also known as the 'land of song'. The modern stereotype is based from the 19th century choral music and 20th century choirs and arena singing.

The Welsh has a history of folk music which is related to the celtic music. The tradition of choral singing has been expressed through sporting events such as rugby.

 The national athem of Wales is called 'Hen WLad Fy Nhadau'.

The Welsh tradition of brass bands dating from the Victorian era continues, moat particularly in the South of Wales, with Welsh bands such as the Cory Band being one of the best.


There are many Welsh singers such as Ivor Novello who was a singer from the first world war and  Delme Bryn-Jones who found fame in world war II. In the early 1980s Tom Jones and also  Shirley Bassey who both of them defined Welsh vocal styles for several generations and still do today.


The most popular sport in Wales in Rugby and Football. The Millenuim Staduim is the national staduim in Wales.


 Rugby in Wales is consider as part of the national culture of Wales. Wales now share a single top flight in rugby with Scotland, Ireland, Italy. Wales is represented by four teams that take part in the Heineken cup and the European Challenge Cup.

Also Wales's national teams take part in the Six Nations Championship and also the rugby World Cup. Wales holds World Cup in 2009.



Football was developed in the 19th century in Wales, but the sport was more popular in the North of Wales. The Most successful Welsh teams are Cardiff City, Newport County and Swansea city. Cardiff City are the most successful team out of the Welsh teams by winning the FA Cup in 1927 and also spending 15 seasons in top flight English First division. 


There are many Welsh athletes such as Ryan Giggs, Craig Bellamy, Gareth Thomas and many more.....

St Davids Days

St David was the patron saint of Wales and St David day is celebrated on the 1st, of March every year. The first of March was chosen because this was the only recording of his death. In 2000 the national assembly of Wales voted to make this day a public holiday but people also wanted it to be a bank holiday.

St David was born at the end of the fifth century, But their is no evidence of his death.

For centuries March the 1st has been a festival, he was recognised as a patron to the welsh. March the 1st (ST. David's day) was  first celebrated by the Welsh in the middle ages.

St. David's day is not a national holiday in the United Kingdom, It is celebrated by the Welsh societies throughout the world with parties and eisteddfodau which is the Welsh word for concert.

The Symbol of Wales

Wales has its own culture and its own language and also its own holidays and music.
The Welsh symbol is a Red Dragon but it has other emblems such as the Leek and the Daffodil but the Red Dragon is the main symbol/emblem for Wales.  


The Welsh dragon is the oldest symbol of Wales, this symbol is still often seen as a shorthand for all things Welsh. The symbol was used by Henry VII at the battle Bosworth in 1485. It was also included into the Tudor Royal Army to signify that they were Welsh.


The Welsh dragon symbol is used for many different emblems for Welsh Government, Cardiff, Newport, Newport Gwent Dragons, Cardiff City FC. 

The Leek is another national symbol for wales, which comes from the legend of St. David how he ordered the Welsh soldiers to identify themselves by wearing the Leek in the battle of the Saxons. The Leeks is still worn today to remember St. Davids day on March 1st. 

The Daffodil is the national flower of Wales and it is also worn on St. Davids day.

My Town pic

I came up with the idea to have like a box and make it into a DVD style player, so I'll have to cut out a part in the middle side of the box and have a empty DVD case inside which the DVD will rest in. On the front of the box it will look like a DVD player and the rest of the box will be covered in my town pictures.

This is a first idea I came up with and will have  a think about more suitable ideas on what to do to hand in my MyTown project.

i have finished putting my director piece together and i am happy with the outcome of the whole piece. i have come across a few errors with it for example there is a little white line around one of my main pictures and will have to change it to make it look better. The other problem that i have is the delay between the pages this is not a major error but it can easily be changed.

Newport City Centre

Newport City Centre.

Newport city centre is the area of Newport by the west bank of the River Usk.  Most of the city centre is contained within two areas, the central area and the area around Lower Dock Street. Most of the city centre is located in the Stow Hill district.

The main shopping street is Commercial Street. It then links the heart of the city with Newport Docks.

The area between Commercial Street and the river used to contain a railway lines and river wharves so the street pattern in this area was never fixed. On the removal of the railway lines in the 1960s the large John Frost Square and Kingsway Shopping Centre were built, close to Newport bus station. This area is to be redeveloped to provide the Friars Walk shopping mall.

Newport Docks info

Newport Docks.

Newport docks were a fairly small fishing port and a market town until the industry age at the beginning of the 19^th century.  It was getting more business than almost any other port in the UK

Newport docks was opened in 1842 and was used until it was filled in1930s, it was the first floating dock in Newport. The Royal Assent introduced the dock act in 1835, which allowed the company to do construction on the docks.

The dock was officially opened in 1842 after opening the attracted tens of thousands of people to the dock.

The dock had railway connections to Brecon, Rhymney, Taff Vale railways. 

Newport County Ifo

Newport County.

Newport County is a Welsh footballing club based in Newport south Wales.

They are in the Conference National Division; it’s the fifth English football league system. The club was re formed in the 1989s but it was founded back in 1912.

They have had quite good history of the years by winning the Welsh cup in the 1980s. The club was soon relegated from the Football league in the 1988s and the football club went of business. It was soon re opened and they were entered into the lower league of football, but the club was successful in the season of 2010 to the season of 2011 they got promoted in to the Conference National League.

Screen shot of my first page

Celtic manor info

The Celtic manor is a golf hotel and leisure resort based in Newport.
The manor  was built in 1860 by Thomas Powell who was the largest coal mine owner in south Wales, the Manor House was bought in 1980 by Terry Matthews, who invested £100m to redevelopment and too refurbishment the building. The house was soon renovated which helped  it retain all of its best features. In the early 1990s the hotel was rewarded for the best hotel in Wales.

In 199 there was plans were to develop two new golf courses and a convention centre on land between the Manor House. Terry Matthews who became friends with the golf course architect Robert Trent Jones. Work began on the Roman Road course in 1992, it named this after the main route connecting the former Roman fortress of Caerleon.

Newport castle info

Newport Castle.

The castle is based right next to the town centre, neighbouring the railway bridge. The east side of the castle still remains and mostly the western side of the castle has been lost over the years it has been there. The castle was fenced of from the public.

The castle was built was between 1327 and also 1386 by Hugh De Audley. The castle replaced an earlier castle on Stow hill, which got destroyed in conflict. The Newport castle was never needed for military action or any war like purposes.  Around the 15^th century the castle was occupied by Humphrey Stafford, who was the first duke of Buckingham, lord of Newport.  

Humphrey Stafford left the castle and it soon became abandoned, some effort was by royalist to re fortify. The east side of the castle is the only part t survive.

The castle has had an active life for about 200 years, and during this time it played no part in national politics and the main function was for day-to-day administration of a lord.

Transporter bridge info

Information about the Newport transporter bridge.Newport Transporter Bridge.

The Newport transporter bridge is a bridge, which crosses the river Usk in Newport. It was built in the year 1906, it was a design from a French engineer Ferdinand Arnodin. Godfrey Charles Morgan, 1st viscount Tredegar who was on a British Army officer, opened it and he also was a politician, he opened the Transporter bridge on the 12th of September 1906.

The Newport transporter bridge was designed because of the riverbanks of the Usk being to low, this bridge allows ships to pass through with ease. The Newport transporter bridge is the largest transporter bridge made out of the 8, which were made; also it’s the oldest kind of bridge left in the UK.

Still to this day the transporter bridge is one of the most recognisable symbol of Newport. The bridge was also used for charity events such as abseiling; it was used for the Millennium celebrations of 2000 for the firework show.

In the early 1995 the transporter bridge was shutdown because of wear and tear, it cost about £3 million to refurbishment, after the refurbishment it was opened in same year 1905, but in 2007 the transporter bridge was closed to carry out more refurbishments which cost £1.225 million which took till 2010 to re open, again in 2011 the bridge was closed down this time because of service problems. 

This is the Brainstorm for the my town project as you can see i have added some of the best features Newport has.

For my Town project i have decided to do a  map of Newport, so basically i will have a map of Newport as a background and have a dice in the corner and you click on the dice and after the dice has rolled it will show you the number you have gotten, then it will take to a certain part of the map and tell you information on a part of Newport. 

For example if you roll a 5 and it might take you to information about the town centre of Newport.
It will include information about the 'Newport Wave, the town centre, the Castle, Transporter Bridge and other major parts of the city.