Idea

Production Practice allows us to develop our own concepts which we have been thinking of doing, and actually create them.

I've had an idea in my head for a few months, and never really have the motivation to do it, however now that I will be getting marked for it, I figured why not.

My initial idea was to create something called a Search Box, this would be a Rubiks cube, which shows recent news and past news. However, I was going to allow for the option for the user to search for a product, this idea is achievable however, I've not got the time currently to do this, on top of my other university work.

So I spoke to my lecturer about this, and he suggested that I create a sort of prototype of this. In which I replied how and he told me to research, although he did come and help me.

He showed my how to create a 3D cube within Photoshop.

There is a certain method to create these which I should note down.

1. Grab a cube from online.
2. Insert this image into photoshop
3. Create a vanishing point and draw the cube, be accurate to ensure best quality.
4. Once created you can then either show or hide each side of the cube, if you double click then you are able to place an image onto the one side.
5. Dupe this until satisfied.

Example from this afternoon:

This is fairly rough, I will be doing this again to allow me to close the visible gaps that we can see.

I will be creating multiple images to show my idea, so that It can be easily explained to people, when it come to finding a team to help develop this project.

The concept itself is easily understood, however it will take me a little while to develop, which is why I'm getting together a fixed sort of image of the finished project will look like.

The Concept

I had the idea of creating a rubiks cube called the search box, initially this would be used to as a visual search engine. However after some talks with my lecturer I started to see a lot more potentially within this.

Not only would this be a visual search engine, but it would also be Interactive. Allowing users to interact with the concept makes them feel like they are involved, I want to create something that will turn a page with a simple hand gesture, or change a complete article with a different gesture. I would also like this to go mobile, allowing users to share there searches with other people. Users of searchbox would both require the app, however they would be able to share the searches and find common ground on searches, allowing the app to search for common things.

That sounds pretty confusing so allow me to give you an example:

If User 1 was to search for Apples, they would recieved a whole cube of apples, and User 2 was to search for Pears they would recieve a whole cube of pears, although if they was to combine these and share there searches then the app would recognise that both users had been looking at fruit and give them both a cube of fruits.

For myself alone this is a big project, however I don't want to stop there, I'm going to need some sound when I Users search for information I want there to be a sound, when they recieve someone elses information they should be informed via sound and a pop up message. Not only that if someone is using the visual search engine on the web, I want a ambient in the background.

Research will play a big part of this development due to it being fairly heavy!