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To sum up this project as a whole i really enjoyed the whole process of using the method of Cray 8′s and the method of story boarding your ideas as how the user will be using the prototype. The BBC Crew where very friendly and helpful.I would defiantly take this whole process for future projects and i really hope there are future projects that involve app design. 

I found this link on my Facebook page and I thought why not share this with you guys. I hope you find this inspiring as I did. Enjoy :)

Being part of the CMM course we had the opportunity to travel to places to places to explore what is out their to offer. We travelled from London to Berlin (unfortunately I could not go on to that trip), the ins and out in Manchester. I attended The Mozilla Festival in London along with my fellow class mates. This was part of our Personal employability trip. As we arrived we at the Moz Fest we had a welcome party for us guests which we had the opportunity to try out all the amazing technical work. This was a 3 day event which was our perfect opportunity to talk to the developers about their work and to try creating some of their work. I contributed in tasks and got involved in creating small animation. The animation to me is benifical for those of all ages to show off their creativity. From the event i learnt a lot about how to create amazing technical work which from this event I can incorporate this within my future projects. It was an event where anyone and everyone is welcome to engage, share ideas and thoughts with one another. 3D MOSI event took place in Manchester. At this event I had seen interesting 3D models created by using a 3D printer. Seeing printed 3D objects used for many reasons such as parts for your car, and even parts for your skull! This exhibition was an eye opening. Looking at all these objects being produce right in front of you shows a lot of hard work has been put into it to create this amazing machine. I saw a clip of how a 3D printer created an object as a piece of a skull bone which then can be attached to a missing area of the skull. The has inspired me and made me realise how important technology is to our society we are in. The 3D printing event was held at MMU. at this event the CMM group participated within the night of the event. We all split into group one was to create an animation and the other to create leaflets, booklets and posters which would display information about the event and what will be happening. Being part of the event this gave us the opportunity to engage with the audience and to make them feel more welcome to the event. The event had information on what 3D printing is and how you can in operate it. I visited the BBC as part of our personally employability. As we first got to the building and were introduced to our itenary for the day. We all talked about what images inspires us all. theAfter this took place we were all had to talk about images that inspired us all. After this was done the speakers from BBC spoke about how they landed a job at BBC as UX Designers. From this experience I learnt that they all had job before the BBC and they didn’t like it very much. They told us to never be let down and apply for as many jobs as we could. From this whole experience. I learnt that its always good to get experience before hand and apply for jobs. Also build your portfolio and learn new things related to media. For example some designers had a background in just word art and they then learnt HTML. For the Makey Makey workshop we was introduced to a Makey Makey kit which had all the objects you need to get started on. In this workshop we was thought how to create controllers/mouse for the computer using objects with the kit provided. Using objects to control the computer shows a lot of creativity put towards this kit. Using found objects this then generates buttons for the computer for example if you wanted to press start to play a game or a musical instruments you would simply attach a clip to a fruit and the other end to the main board. Using the kit in the box you can physically create your own keyboard or a controller using found objects. Overall I really enjoyed my first year as a CMM student. I feel I have learnt so much in my first year and can not wait for the 2nd year to begin.

If I were to do this project again I would have regular group meetings. This would be at least a good step to really find out who is best suited for certain tasks,

We talked about how we can interact with people in the social environment to get the audience to come down and see the exhibition.

Short video Completed stage for the exhibition event. I had forgotten to add this video before hand. Did not realise i had taken a clip of the before the event. Hope you enjoy :)

I was amazed to see people really enjoyed the exhibition. It is amazing to see people posting your work on social media to share their experience they had by visiting the event.

The whole night was fun as many joined in to create their own origami birds.

Night of the event - UnitX These are images I had taken on the night of the event. I really enjoyed the event as I met the audience who visited my exhibition. Having them complementing on your work really did boost my confidence.

Adding a few final touches to complete the UnitX project we added seats on the side. The reason for this is the only maximum number of audience that can enter would be 4 as there were not enough room for more. We thought this would be a good idea for the audience to take a seat for their turn to enter. We stacked the instructions of how to make the origami birds on a box. This would allow the audience to help them selves to go ahead and create their own as they leave on their way out.

We finally had our 1000 birds hung up! We had the video ready along with the music. Our final task was to make sure the area was clean and tidy and there were no wires visible to the audience.

I was testing out to see how the video would look once the room is dark by making final adjustments.

Federation house We went to the federation house to get cracking on our final piece. We all had a task to do. I was in charge of where the projection would be placed and how it will be displayed. I also took part in creating the 1000 bird. We all had 200 origami birds each which we created in the space of 2weeks. Once we had all the birds together we then started to organise them as to how and where it would be placed

After 200 attempts I have finally made the origami bird flap its wings. The excitement of my face at the end of the video really does show a lot.

Programme used - Premiere Pro I used premiere pro to create the videos which will then be projected on to the flock of birds. I used images for the first song as it was a fast pace. I thought it would work well by having each images change each time the key hit the high note. The song was approximately 5minutes long. The second song I used videos. The reason for this is because it had a flowed rhythm to it which I thought would be perfect to use. The song lasted for approximately 7minutes. The final step would be to have both video linked which then it would loop constantly until the event ended.

On the night of event we thought it would be a good idea to have sheets of paper which had a step by step guide of how to create your very own origami bird.