Module Title:
Content
and Context: Society, Culture and Economy
Project Title: Arabian Nights (Graphics Rotation 1)
Project Brief
For this project you will be designing and
producing an electronic book based on the Arabian Nights.
The choice of story is yours, but remember that where some Arabian Night stories are charming, others are full of sex, horror and violence and are thus more suitable for certain audiences and may be treated in different ways (e.g. more HBO than BBC).
Although the text is old the way in which you
interpret it can and will give relevance to the readers. You should be free to
lay the text out in any way that can plausibly serve the user and to either
generate or acquire imagery that supports the function of legibility for the
reader.
You should specify that your reader is either:
·
Ages: 8-12
·
Ages:12-16 or
·
Ages: 18 and up
The choice of story is yours, but remember that where some Arabian Night stories are charming, others are full of sex, horror and violence and are thus more suitable for certain audiences and may be treated in different ways (e.g. more HBO than BBC).
1.
You will have to design a response
2.
Then collect and collate material
3.
Treat the material in ways that ensue its
technical functionality
4.
Learn to manipulate the treated materials to
suit the design
5.
Finally to produce a working eBook – suitable for
deployment on an iPad or on an Android tablet, with a minimum of 30 screens.
1. Spend the first week of this brief working
through a set of integrated research and design functions that will allow you
to uncover the cultural framework that will be served by the design: e.g. Is
the book to enchant kids, or thrill adults, and what cultural models exist to
be applied or challenged to achieve this effect.
2. You will then gather material from sources
that are both technically fitted and legally viable.
3. This material will be treated to render it
serviceable for industrial application: e.g. you will be shown how to capture
images as scans and how to instruct authors about text formatting to avoid
production problems.
4. Then, according to your design, you will
arrange and artwork this material, according to cultural and aesthetic
principals, to achieve the best effect.
5. Lastly, you will be shown how this material is
processed to become a viable ebook.
