Video prototyping in group
Today me and my group sat together after class to plan, sketch and execute our video prototype of the “morphees” idea. We begun brainstorming about different aspects of the concept, and came up with filters like “security” and “freedom”. Our main focus in both of these aspects were physical possibilities. The concept of morphees is a thin and flexible phone that can bend and fold. Our thoughts were immediately drawn to the idea of a phone that can easily be hidden away and adjust to different types of physical space. We begun thinking that a phone that is easy to hide away from the public eyes is of importance due to security reasons. Although, eventually we settled on filtering the benefits of having a bigger freedom with a phone that is adaptable to different types of physical space.
We begun sketching up a story board of the different scenes we were going to shoot in our video. Our starting point would be accordingly to the storytelling arc with a normality being established. This would, in our video, be a typical day to day scene when you put your slightly too big phone inside of your slightly too small pocket. The crisis begins when you’re trying to carry a lot of things while worrying that your phone is going to slide out of your pocket, so you need to carry it in your hand instead - along with all the heavy things.
After this sequence we chose to shift focus to another individual wearing their morphees on their arm while carrying a lot of things. A notification pops up and the person decides to pick the morphees up from her arm and check what it was about while putting down her things. To move forward - and close the circle - she folds her morphees neatly into her small pocket, where there’s no risk of it falling out.
This is how the storyboards looked:
We did some changes during the process of the sketch-phase and the video making, but I’m very happy of how it turned out. Though it has some flaws, I’m excited to hear the feedback of this particular assignment. Here’s our video prototype of “morphees”:
To reflect upon it I find that this assignment was very helpful to get us started with the thinking of how to do video prototyping in a team. I got to use the knowledge I’ve gained of how prototypes should work with the filtering of qualities you want to investigate further and manifesting the dimensions of this filtering. What we filtered here was the freedom of having a phone that is adaptable to different types of physical space. Some aspects we touched upon according to the template of Lim et al (2008) was the appearance of such a phone, the functionality and briefly upon the spatial structure. The manifestation of the dimensions took form in material, where we used cardboard paper and printed out interfaces. We chose this because we thought this would most effectively represent our idea of a novel user value of morphees.
From here I wish to only get better at seeing what needs to be improved, and to explore more about how to go about when making prototypes and what they in turn prototype.
