The presentation file

I would upload the pdf presentation for you all but... its 20megs.... some of those pictures were a bit large. I will work on shrinking the thing later. For now you can find it at www.sfu.ca/~pbrokens/iat241

What we are designing to GET RID OF

Take a look at this Horribly Ridiculously Complex Tutorial to set up a videoblog:
http://www.freevlog.org/tutorial/

Common genres of videoblogs

Different uses (and users) to consider in our design brief development (from wikipedia):

• Personal - Vlogs documenting the author's life, the recounting of daily experiences, stories from their past, or the airing of their opinions on various topics.


• News - Vlogs covering news events.


• Collaborative (also collective or group) - Vlogs with a collaborative nature.


• Citizen journalism - Vlogs "playing an active role in the process of collecting, reporting, analyzing and disseminating news and information"


• Conflict (aka. war vlog) - Vlogs covering an armed conflict 1st hand.


• Digital divide (aka. bridge vlog) - Vlogs covering a culture, usually a developing world, not for people within that culture but to give people outside that culture insight. As such many bridge vlogs are in English or another common language.


• Screencast - Vlogs demonstrating software or webservices through the recording of onscreen actions, usually presented with voiceover naration


• Political - Vlogs discussing political issues.


• Environmental - Vlogs discussing environmental issues, nature, and natural history.


• Exquisite corpse - Vlogs where each concurrent part in a narative is shot by a different author


• Media - Vlogs analyzing television, documentaries and other mass media.


• Entertainment - Vlogs producing "shows" or short films.


• Re-vlog - Vlogs promoting videos from other videoblogs or third parties.


• Movlog (aka. mobile video blog) - Vlogs updated via mobile video phone


• Educational - Schools and universities using vlogs as a teaching and creative medium.


• Behind the scenes - Vlogs showcasing backstage activities of film production or other arts and skills.


• Tutorial - Vlogs offering advice, demonstrations, how-to's, and tutorials.


• Travel - Vlogs serving as a travelogue, exploring different places around the world.


• Religious - Vlogs discussing religious topics.


• Magazine type or lifestyles - Vlogs discussing lifestyles and hobbies in a television magazine format.


• Assignment-based - Vlogs consisting of assignments.


• Vlog Anarchy - Vlogs covering all or multiple genres.


• Business - Vlogs created by businesses for external marketing or internal business communications.


• Deaf vlogs - Vlogs used by members of the Deaf community to be able to blog in their native or preferred sign languages, as opposed to spoken/written languages. Issues are usually related to some aspect of deafness from a cultural, social and pathological view. These Vlogs use the medium of video to be able to communicate messages, posts, and other ideas through a sign language.

Journal Article

Quick link for you guys. I found a journal article on video blogging at IEE Explore. It can be found here.

If that link won't work due to log in needs or other such then the path to reach the article is to go to the SFU library website, then select Databases under the research tools section. Choose SIAT related databases and log into IEE Explore through SFU. Going through SFU will give you acess to fulltext articles rather than abstracts.

Assignment Specs

Hello all,

It turns out that the assignment specs that were on the course website were rather detailed and tell us pretty much everything that we need to do. Phase 1 info follows.

Phase 1. – Observation and Design Brief. Due in workshop class Nov 14 or 15 2006.
In this phase students are asked to develop a use scenario and the basic functional requirements of their product as
seen from the user’s point of view. Findings will be presented to the rest of the class in critique environment. This
will include all of the components of a design brief as discussed in our lectures, including:
1. A clear problem and opportunity statement.
2. An outline of industry background in your chosen area.
3. A profile of the user including an end use scenario illustrated in the presentation. What do people in this user
group value and expect in a product of this type? What are their needs? Where will the product be used?
What design constraints result from this end use scenario? The end use scenario should be illustrated in a
story-board as part of the presentation. (Guidelines will be discussed in class)
4. A clear outline of the functionality of the product. What benefits will it provide to the user? What will the
product do? How does it do it? What services does it need to connect to in order to function? How will it
facilitate communication with other people? How will it store, organize and distribute information?
5. An outline of existing products in this area. How will yours be better tailored to suit your user?
6. Critical marketing criteria including price range, distribution and point of purchase scenario, likely promotion and
branding strategies.
Deliverables phase 1 – PowerPoint or similar presentation as described above.

See y'all tommorrow.

First Post!

This week is all about immersing ourselves in the video blog world. feel free to post whatever here, if you find an image on the .net that tells a story, or link to video blog posts that you can find wherever.

Edit: Oh, and is it OK if we push the Friday meeting to span 2.30 - 5.00 pm?

See you then!