The ipad

Introduction to the ipad

At this present moment the ipad come in three different basic configurations, extra choices can be the size of internal storage 18gb 32gb 64gb and their connectivity, WiFi cellular or 3G. The original ipad is no longer available, however apple sold 15 million prior to the introduction of the ipad2

Three types of ipad

Screen & resolution

ipad1    9.7-inch 1024x768 resolution at 132 pixels per inch (ppi)
Mini     7.9-inch 1024x768 resolution at 163 pixels per inch (ppi)
ipad2    9.7-inch 1024x768 resolution at 132 pixels per inch (ppi)
ipad      9.7-inch  2048x1536 resolution at 264 pixels per inch (ppi)

Therefore all screen have the same aspect ratio 4 by 3.
All have multi-touch display

Processor

ipad1    Apple A4

Mini     Dual core A5

ipad2    Dual core A5

ipad      Dual core A6x with quad core graphics.

OS

ipad1    iso 5.1
Mini     iso 6/7
ipad2    iso 6/7
ipad      iso 6/7

Environmental sensors

ipad1    Accelerometer, ambient light sensor, magnetometer,

Mini     Accelerometer, ambient light sensor, magnetometer, gyroscope

ipad2    Accelerometer, ambient light sensor, magnetometer, gyroscope

ipad      Accelerometer, ambient light sensor, magnetometer, gyroscope

Cameras

ipad1   None

Mini    Back 1080p HD still and video camera 5 MP, 30fps and 5× digital zoom
            Front 1.2 MP still, 720p video

ipad2   Back 720 p HD still and video camera 0.7 MP, 30fps and 5× digital zoom
            Front VGA-quality still and video camera, 0.3 MP

ipad     Back 1080p HD still and video camera 5 MP, 30fps and 5× digital zoom
            Front 1.2 MP still, 720p video

Wireless

ipad1    Wi-Fi (802.11a/b/g/n), Bluetooth 2.1+EDR
             3G cellular HSDPA, 2G cellular EDGE on 3G models

Mini     Wi-Fi (802.11a/b/g/n), Bluetooth 4.0
             3G cellular HSDPA, 2G cellular EDGE on 3G models
             3G transitional LTE on 4G model

ipad2    Wi-Fi (802.11a/b/g/n), Bluetooth 2.1+EDR
             3G cellular HSDPA, 2G cellular EDGE on 3G models

ipad      Wi-Fi (802.11a/b/g/n), Bluetooth 4.0         
             3G cellular HSDPA, 2G cellular EDGE on 3G models
             3G transitional LTE on 4G model

Geolocation

ipad1    Apple location databases
Mini     Apple location databases GPS GLONASS
ipad2    Apple location databases GPS
ipad      Apple location databases GPS GLONASS

Sim card

ipad1    Apple location databases
Mini     Nano sim
ipad2    Micro sim
ipad      Micro sim

Connectors

ipad1    30-pin
Mini     Lighting
ipad2    30-pin
ipad      Lighting

Reference 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPad
http://store.apple.com/uk/ipad/compare

Assignment Brief

My Fda studies has now transferred into a Ba in digital media design. We now start our new project.

Introduction

Tablets are become very popular device for interaction with the web and down loaded content. In the first quarter of 2013 Apple sold 19.4 million ipads. With its ability to display and play many types of media it is becoming the devices of choice for most people to use.

Our Brief

We are going to design an interactive story/narrative for the ipad. We can take an existing short story or narrative and adapt it to be interactive. This can be aimed at any target audience and can be fictional or non fictional . We must consider my target audience and evidence this in this blog. I will prepare and visualize my story so that a developer can interpret my design and do the necessary coding. I will include wire framing (flow diagrams) and story boarding my app with details and events that need to take place on each page. My story board can be had drawn/painted style initially, however I must produce a story board using digital methods. Lastly I will need to produce a dynamic visualization of my story in order to pitch and demonstrate how it will work sowing detailed examples of animated content.

Technical considerations

I will have to consider usability and user experience involved in designing for the ipad. I will produce samples of user testing hand outs/ questionnaires and will produce evidence of technical options and constraints that the developer of such an app might encounter. Taking into consideration iso guidelines what are the difference for designing for this medium how do I tackle various the different screen sizes the ipad come in. All of this evidence will be provided in this blog.

Important dates

Thursday 24th October – Deadline for planning
Wednesday 13th Nov pm Deadline for storyboards – complete and final hand-in
Wed 27th Nov pm Crit
Mon 2nd Dec 5.pm Deadline

After thoughts

Yet again I think I have learned a lot from doing this project. I feel I know more about illustrator than I ever did before. I feel more comfortable using After Effects. I enjoyed seeing the work of others and sometime thought that was a good idea why did I not think of that. I liked the idea that if at first thing don't work out if you try something good can come out of an unexpected event.  PS I like the work I have produced for this project.

Crit

It seems to have been a very long project. I always look forward to Crit This time it was some how different.  Val was able to come in and see our completed work. she felt their should be a few minor tweaks to the video I presented. At the begin there is 10 frames of the still image before it zooms and pans to the clock face. she felt it should start quicker. All the images that are embedded in the segments of the clock should all have the same horizon. When the logo comes out of the last segment it should look like it is embedded in the clock , the same as the other images.

This is the final version submitted version 21

When I submitted the final version of this video. I used generic news music from Garage band as it had the right kind of ending. I also gave two version one with the logo embedded and one with the logo embedded with a red back ground as the example.

Presention of News intro

I had a good class with Chris last Wednesday and showed him my video of the clock faces. He could see that there was a germ of an idea and as we talked about the things he was not so keen on in the video I developed the idea of the clock face showing element of events in Brighton. In the few days before we had another meeting with Val I retouched a high resolution image of the clock face to get rid of the rags combined it with the still image I had taken  down loaded videos from Latest Tv  and placed them on the clock face and created a new video for Val to see.

Clock tower video for presentation 

Val and Kate's response was quite positive. They suggested I remove the sweeping shot at the begin, fill in the rest of the segments. Not have the clock face twist into the logo.

Try and Try again

I had set aside Tuesday the 7th to shoot the clock tower. I got up early caught the train to Brighton took a few shoot of the train station before walking down to the clock tower

and this is what I saw when I got there.

Clock tower

Somebody had cover the Clock tower in rages as part of an art installation this kinda killed my idea there and then. I retired for a coffee and a think I still like the idea of time so I took a long walk to Hove town hall to photograph the clock and any clock i could see on the way. I spent the day photographing as much as I could and then went home to sort out the mess I had now got my self in.

I created this video from the days photography to show my new idea and to see if it was the basis of a good idea.

Another News idea

I have had my doubt about my line of thinking with regard to the video I created for the news idea. I knew it before I even asked the opinion of other. In a nutshell the ideas to messy to much going on I need the idea to be simple. I want the idea to show the passing of time and the day as well as some reference to the area.

One day around the clock tower

I have come up with the idea of filming the clock tower in Brighton through out the day moving round the clock tower as the day passes then putting all the little bits of film to give the feeling of traveling round the clock tower in continuous motion with the whole day passing by. I made a ruff video using images from Google.

Bexhill clock tower work out.

In preparation I have worked out that I need to divide the clock tower in to 18 segments and shoot over 12 hours. I plan to start at 8 am an finish at 8pm. My intention is to shoot 10 seconds of video every hour but shoot one complete circuit. I have had a dummy go with the local clock tower.