I spent today filming a ‘demo’ video, purely so that when I am not at the exhibit, there is a clear description and walk through of the process involved in using the scarf. I have omitted the ‘prototype’ parts for the sake of this demo, for example the fact that a computer microphone is being used as opposed to a microphone in the ipod is irrelevant to this concept, and is only of real interest to those who want to know how the prototype was built, not the idea itself. It is pretty basic, but I didn’t want to detract from the ‘film’, and I think it’s nice to use video as a format for communicating other elements of the project: I’ve also included 4 of my prototype videos on the site for comparison.
I need to prepare a kind of elevator pitch for Thursday, which will go on the front page and replace the text that is there just now.
Oh and I’ve been preparing a project website which will have another ‘how to’ video on it as well as the rest of the information about the project - it’ll go along side the scarf / mannequin combo.
Interaction Design degree project: Documentary demonstrating context of a working prototype of an iphone app that subtitles people who are losing the ability to speak clearly. (In particular ‘ataxic dysphonia’). The iphone is held in an interchangeable scarf, and through a system of filtration that I have developed, and existing speech recognition technologies, only the vital words in a conversation are subtitled; thus merely adding to the common sense we all use when understanding another person.
I’m editing my film together, and it’s difficult! I have a rough cut now though, and I think it’s quite sweet. Will obviously post it online when I have more confidence in it!!!
I’ve finally made the decision that the mic is embedded in the scarf (which we know works) and I think that’s for the best. Need to spend some time looking through my photographs and either choose one for my one great image or choose to do another shoot.
So that is me ‘half way’ through the shoot of the film. So far, so good. The deliverable is 1 minute, which I will do my best to stick to but some of the shots are too nice to ditch! At the moment, although I have a few hours of footage, the film stands at over a minute but that’s just with a quick rough cut and splice. Better to be in this position than struggling for content!
So far I have filmed the bulk of the pre-dinner party preparation. A couple of scenes have been ditched already (including the most difficult which involved ladders, a piece of wood and a very still Calum holding a very expensive camera on a slightly less expensive stick!!) but so is the way of editing. The main focus of tomorrow is the dinner party itself - however I also need to film the food preparation to splice in amongst the scene(s) where mum is preparing her makeup. Mum and I also ‘taught’ the scarf a scripted, quick (15s) sentence that will be used to demonstrate the application working. I am also relieved that the microphone does infact work inside the scarf, when the wind muffler(?) is removed, phew!! I can feel a sense of relief coming on… I literally cannot wait to tweak and edit this with some time on my hands!!!
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