Friday, 10 February 2012

Video making

So taking the actual video was a bigger struggle than I thought. It was tricky to get shots of "stress points" without putting myself in a dangerous position, as well as the practicalities of trying to attach a camera to myself and keep it there while cycling (nearly went really badly).

It was too tricky and risky to film the app in use as in touching the screen for tracking, so I'm going to record it as if the button function works. I think this is a fair representation of the app because using the button was the initial idea and how it would work best, it just hasn't been possible so far to figure out the coding to make it actually work.
Also... explaining how to use the app screen as a tracker makes it a lot more complicated than needed... like the screen shots would have to be edited to make a clear space for tapping and then there's the complication of how to attach the phone safely to the handlebars for use. I think using the phone is a lot more dangerous than using the button as it would probably need more attention and hand fully off handlebars to use. This isn't what I want to advertise, as I think it would make the journey more dangerous and stressful, rather than the main aim of making journeys happier and safer.
Explaining this would be quite long winded and take away from the usefulness of the app because of the intial big flaws of using the phone.

So anyway... I'm taking the video of pretty much how it works now, but using button instead. I think I will leave further ideas out for now to separate the difference between what it can do and what it could do.

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