Week 19 - Invention, invellectual property and income
Individual assignment
Develop a plan for dissemination of your final project. Prepare drafts of your summary slide (presentation.png, 1920x1080) and video clip (presentation.mp4, 1080p HTML5, < ~minute, < ~10 MB) and put them in your root directory.
The plan for disseminating my final project is to make all digital material open source, using the fab licencing statement (outlined below) as I like it's simplicity and openness. In the future, I may decide to produce a commercially available educational kit for the carbon ply, including all the materials and components needed as well as all the files, instructions and relevant theory. For the time being though, here's my fab licencing statement that I'll put on my project page for the open source documentation and project as it stands.
(c) June 2018. This work may be reproduced, modified, distributed, performed, and displayed for any purpose, but must acknowledge "Carbon Ply". Copyright is retained and must be preserved. The work is provided as is; no warranty is provided, and users accept all liability.
To create the poster I created a new file in Photoshop and changed the image size to be 1920x1080 and exported it as .png to test the process. Here's the draft slide (smaller image included below to show what it looks like.
To create the video I used imovie on my phone. I figured this was a very simple way to package everything, and heard it could produce the required formats, resolutions etc. I also knew I'd have all the relevant images/videos on my phone, so thought it would provide a nice quick and easy workflow with a pretty good effect. I've used adobe premiere pro before, so it was also a chance to try something different so that I could compare efficiency, effect, convenience. The app was very quick to do (I did the basic text setup on the loo this morning!) and then you can export the result as a .mov file (18.5Mb) straight into your videos/images folder which I then downloaded on my macbook using my online icloud account.cloudconvert.com to convert the .mov file (which was the format output by imovie) to .mp4.
I only changed the setting for Video Resolution, to be 1920 x 1080p. Once the file has been uploaded and processed, you can download the new .mp4 video.
My draft came out as 8.4Mb for 1min5sec. Here's the draft video with only some basic text and no real content. I tested it out in quicktime and it worked fine. I was most concerned with my workflow in how to creat the video, not so much about content at this stage...also I wanted to keep the final result a secret!
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