Final Energy Pong Video

This past week I went back and reedited the energy pong ver. 2.0 video to incorporate the following changes:

1. The volume of the transition music needed to be toned down
2. Add subtitles when the rules and objectives are being described
3. Add a link to an external site where the rules can be viewed
4. Added a summary section to the end of the movie
5. Fixed various misinformation in some of the rules

Because we are out of time for this project, version 3 is the final version and can be found here.

Next Project

The next project that the content design group will undertake is the making of a video promoting solar energy. We will explore current solar projects in Hawaii such as the solar open houses and we will also explore how the University of Hawaii has begun to implement solar energy.

As a first step this weekend our group will visit one of the solar open houses and hopefully get a few interview with some people there.

Energy Pong, 2nd Filming

This week in our weekly meeting we presented our first version of the energy pong video to our professor. After viewing the video we were told that we needed to fix the following problems:

1. The objective section of the video was incorrect and the narration needed to be revised
2. The bracket section of our video had too many floors
3. Some of the footage mentioned in the script wasn't in the video (forgot to narrate them)
4. The video needed to have team members from both genders

In order to fix these problems we decided that it was best to reuse as much footage from the first filming as possible and then to refilm the rest of the footage on Wed. and Thurs. so that we could send out the movie to be reviewed by the rest of the class.

After sending it out to the class we received a good amount of feedback and from that feedback we decided which changes could be incorporated and which couldn't. For the next version of the video we have decided to change the following:

1. Show pictures of the items needed to play energy pong
2. Tone down the volume of the transition music
3. Display a link to a wiki with the rules of the game for those who forget a rule(s) and don't want to watch the video again
4. Possibly add text to the video when a rule is described
5. Redo the narration for what happens when 2 balls land in the same cup (current narration is missing some critical details)
6. Add a summary section to the end of the movie

Lastly the current version of our video can be found here.

First Shoot

This weekend our group began the filming of our video documentary for our "energy pong" game documentation. For those who don't know what energy pong is, its a variation of the drinking game beer pong. If you don't know what that is, please check this link out on how to play.

The shooting of the movie took place in the dorm Noelani I tower. Originally we were going to shoot in one of the freshmen towers, but I was told by a friend that we were unable to bring anything beer pong related into the dorm as it is a dry dorm. So with that in mind we were forced to change our shooting location.

The shooting itself took a little bit of time as we had to constantly retry shots when one of the actors missed sinking a ball in a cup or just the usual forgetting of lines. However in the end we managed to get all the shots that we needed with the exception of the shot that involved a female (by that time all the girls were gone).

Tonight we will get together as a group, review the footage, see if we are missing any footage and then begin the editing process (adding title and credits, transitions, ect).

Energy Pong Part 2

During the course of this week our group sent out our script and ideas to the rest of the class for review so that we might find ways to add things to the video to make it better or what to remove or change things in order to make a better video.

After getting some reviews we started to make changes to the script and we will start to assign roles to various people soon. The one problem is finding people who want to be in this movie, currently I have been talking with some of my freshmen friends to see if they would be willing to play small roles in the movie as well as giving us access to their dorm so we could shoot the movie in the setting where it will take place.

During the course of this coming week we will be working on finalizing the script (we just sent out another script for review) and the roles and if we can we will most likely begin shooting towards the end of the week or on the weekend.

Group Reassignment

This week marked the final milestone for the development group, as we have produced all of the mockups needed for now. Now I am part of the content development team, where we create videos for use during the competition.

Ideas:

For the first milestone we have decided to do a few videos. The first being a movie on beer pong. As Prof. Johnson stated, the future of documentation is through video, so we have decided to create a video to go along with our energy pong game, for those who don't know how to play.

Secondly we have decided to visit the man who currently lives off of the energy grid. We think that by interviewing him we can give students better incite as to how to better conserve energy as well as raising their energy literacy.

Wiki:

Over this past week I created a Wiki for the energy pong game. We realized that not everyone knows how to play beer pong so therefore not everyone would know how to play energy pong. With that in mind we were asked to create a wiki to go along with our video documentation. My wiki for energy pong can be found here.

Milestone 2

This is the 8th week that we have been working on the design of the dorm competition site. This means that the 2nd milestone is coming up and we must show what we have done over the last 8 weeks. In preparation of this presentation I have done a few things:

Edits:

First of all I decided that the layout of all the pages should stay the same as they presented the user with an easy and uncluttered environment in which to view or administrate in. Also I changed some of the top links so that they actually linked to other pages (some of the links were lost when names were changed).

Secondly to better represent the current time period of the competition I went back and changed the content on the home page and the events. This will show those looking at the mockups that content will change (probably weekly) on some of the pages.

Lastly I continued to think of way to improve the way the billboard displayed content. I noticed that the other mockups only had tips and no actual competition data. So I wanted to keep my layout the way it was as it provides users with data as well as tips. This way users don't have to have access to a computer to be able to view the essential competition data (kukui nut leaders, what floor is winning, current power consumption).

2nd Week of Competition

During this week we moved onto the next phase of design which is the 2nd week of competition. The design of the site stays almost the same as the first week with a few minor changes.

Home Page:

The page layout stays the same, however the content changes. Each week the video on the page changes as well as the photoslide show. Below is my mock up of the home page (click on the image to enlarge it):




Admin Pages:

The admin pages for the second week stay the same as the first week however if old goals or events are still unapproved then they will carry over into the next week for approval or disapproval. However the the layout and availability of the pages stays the same of the first week.

Billbaord:

This week I also worked on the billboard page. My design is currently one of two designs that are being proposed. My billboard proposal consists of 6 slides.

The first slide shows users the next upcoming event as well as the current floor standings:



The 2nd slide shows the weekly as well as the overall kukui nut leaders. Hopefully this will encourage user to actively engage in activities to gain more kukui nuts:



The 3rd screen shows the recent commitments that other users have submitted. Hopefully this will encourage other people to also commit to similar actions or events:



The 4th screen shows the recent goals that floors have set for themselves. The goal of this page is to motivate floors to keep up with the other floors by submitting their own goals:



The 5th screen shows a tip of the day, so that users don't even have to visit the website to receive tips on how to curb energy consumption:



The last screen shows a graph of the current energy consumption of that day. I think this will give students a good idea of when or when not to use certain appliances (assuming they apply their energy literacy knowledge):





The idea behind my design was to give students as much information as possible without them having to do anything at all. This way the student can come in and see all of the essential competition data without having to go to the website or logging into their account. Hopefully in this manner students will be more encouraged to compete and also gain energy literacy without doing a thing.

Prizes:

This week we also worked on designing prizes for the competition. The prizes range from a pizza party to an ipod depending on the category that was won. Our budget was $2000 and we were able to stay a little under that goal. However I am unable to post up a list of the prizes as they are on someone else computer and not in the repository.