After all the illustrations are done, I proceeded to add the animations into metaio and generate the QR codes. Initially, the first try that I did, I did not set the video to be fullscreen. After viewing the videos for a few times, I find it incredibly difficult to view the video when it's floating above the marker. I cannot move the device away from the marker to view the video. Therefore, after letting my group members know, I changed it to fullscreen view. I think this would be much easier for the children too.
After generating the codes I added the QR codes into the following scenes :
Presenting to clients
I printed out the scenes above and Lai Yenn mounted it onto the mounting board to be presented to our client. The client like our idea and our progress so far. However, he does have a few suggestions and comments.
He suggested that we have a web portal to show more of the book series' selection where customers can purchase more of the series. I like that idea, we could do that sometime in the future as we don't have enough time now to do the web portal.
Other than that, he suggested that we could make the customers love the character more by having the character as soft toys, and merchandising it to become various items. I can already imagine the characters as soft toys, stationeries, and other items that will attract children. It would be great to merchandise the characters, just like how Walt Disney has merchandise of their characters.
Additional comments would be that the file size for the videos are too huge, therefore it will take a long time to load. I managed to reduce the size of the videos, thanks to Komal who found this really good software which reduces the video sizes. The software is known as Handbrake. This is the link to their website : http://handbrake.fr/.
View of Handbrake :
It was really easy to use and it works really well! Then I re uploaded the reduced size videos onto the channels in Metaio. I also just found out that I don't have to regenerate the QR codes as it will use back the same QR code as long as it is using the same channel. This feature really saved up a lot of time.
