Stop Motion: Final Film

This video was inspired by googles' "Project Glass" and was created entirely in Photoshop, each frame after 00:6 (460 JPEGs) was edited by itself, there is no animation in this clip. It took about 20 hours of editing in total to complete.

The original video can be found here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sgvn2TPOJPA

Investigate: Glasses

For me the most interesting part of modern society is the progression, and increasingly growing significance of digital media. Images, Music, Videos, Messages, Movies, Games, e-Books and Comics have all rose to become integral in the modern lifestyle and modern technology is constantly adapting to compensate for this by integrating it as the demand grows. Mobile phone companies manufactured cameras into their models at the beginning of the last decade, mp3 players soon followed. Nowadays phones can do nearly everything including access the internet, so can TVs. Computers are used as central hubs for nearly every peripheral device you can own and video game consoles can stream movies, TV shows and music from the internet thanks to services like Netflix and Music Unlimited. I believe that digital media is the future of our modern society, and that one of the best ways to continue to push it forward is to make it more accessible for people, and more significant to their everyday interactions.

My inspiration for this assignment comes from Googles’ ‘Project Glass’ a set of augmented reality glasses that will run on Googles’ Android operating system. The idea that someone could use a pair of glasses to interact with the world is one that I find extremely exciting, and its applications in the consumption of media are more varied than any other device currently on the market. The idea of imposing information on someones vision means that it is no longer necessary for screens to exist, meaning that the person doesn’t even really need to be holding the device that they are trying to use. Imagine sitting in your lounge and receiving a txt from your phone in the kitchen, or listening to music streaming from your laptop in your bedroom, imagine skyping someone while cooking dinner or watching a TV show while on the toilet. All of a sudden media would become omnipresent in out day-to-day lives, with us at all times and accessible in the easiest of ways.

Stop Motion interim hand in

Storyboards

Stop Motion: Update 2

I have decided against the old UI design that i had, the contrasting colors made the information stand out, the major colour contrast didn't look as professional as i would have liked. i have decided to change it.

stop motion practice

Stop Motion: Update

I have decided on the final color co-ordination for the UI. I have decided on blue and orange as they are contrasting colors, this will make them easier to see while on the wearers field of view.

Stop Motion: Group brainstorm

Stop Motion in progress

My main idea for my stop motion project involves the idea of augmented reality, put into place through a pair of glasses. This will allow the wearer to interact with and use technology and media on an extremely intimate, fluid and accessible manner, interacting with and using several different devices at once such as a stereo, a phone and a tablet PC. This is how I intend to implement the theme of media design, the course I am specializing in.

The challenge with this is that i have to create a completely new product that doesn't exist (atleast in popular culture) and make it look like a believably popular device for a possible future, something that is absorbed into popular culture like the iPhone. To do this I am going to have to make the device look professional and the overlay of the augmented reality look intuitive.

I have searched the internet for ideas and came across some firefighters masks in the sates that impose augmented reality on the vision for the firefighters, so that they always know where their colleges are in a blaze, thermal imaging of where the blaze is the strongest. It can be found here.

I have also found other images that i can use for inspiration.

This one shows how you can put alot of detail on the screen and alot of information, but it looks very cluttered and inconsistent as far as coloring goes. I will need to make one that isn't as cluttered, alot more accessible and intuitive to use. Also a design aesthetic that is consistent across the UI.

This one shows how the hand can be used as a tool for imposing and using the augmented realities UI, very similar to the firefighters'.