Feedback

During our presentation to our client, we received feedback on our layout. First of all, our gear review section was more of a gear introduction section, so we need to rephrase our words. We should also state that it is gears used by the featured artist and specify that our pages are meant for beginners who do not know much about gears. The client also found our pages confusing since the featured artist page and the gear review pages dont relate with each other, so Mr. Razif suggested that we rearrange our pages.

Adding subtitles to our videos

Since the featured artist speaks in English in our videos, we decided to have Malay subtitles to make it easier to view for Malaysians. Using Maisarah's Malay translation, I added subtitles to the video introducing the Esteve guitar. Here it is:

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/6p2k6oxtma3t46d/AAAMeHcv1LuDQFmxjfa-Z-iLa/vids

Compiling and adding interactivity

After Amir finished his design of the gear review pages, I compiled all the files into Adobe InDesign. Here is one of the pages of our gear review section:

I worked on adding the interactivity for each page. When tapping on the first button, it plays a video of the featured artist introducing the gear shown.

Next is the 3d button. When tapped, it shows the 3d models we made of the guitars and pedals used by the featured artist. To do this, I made 2 object states, one with opacity 0 and the other with opacity 100. Then I used the slideshow button in the folio overlay panel. After that, the 3d model is added using the 'image sequence' button. One of the difficulties in making this button work is that the size of the 3d models was too small so all the models had to be re-rendered in Maya. Another problem is the background of the models could not be transparent because the image sequence button does not work with .png images, so the models had to be rendered with a gray background. 

The music button plays an audio sample of the gear. I managed to make the audio play when tapped on, but the problem was that it could not be paused. This was fixed by putting two images in an 'audio asset' folder:

Then the options are changed in the folio overlay panel and the audio can now be played and paused.

Interactivity in the cover page and contents page was also added so that it automatically jumps to a certain page when tapped on. This was done by creating a button and adding an 'action' to it.