Prospectus

I am required to write a prospectus in a PDF format that shows the information of my project ideas.

Those points that I have highlighted are important. By the way, the points with grey highlight is the things that I am confused. 

Flow chart diagram // activity diagram

I have created a site architecture of my website. This is the updated version. 
Also, I have created a flow chart diagram that shows how is the content going. 

 

inspiration ll

magnifying feature to see the details of the product. Happened to visit these websites that consist of zoom in feature to show the detail of the product itself. This is somehow related to my project as it requires users to zoom in and explore the content. Therefore I thought that I could implement some of these features into my website that fits the concept "magnify".

Topshop website:

link to the website here

ASOS website:

http://www.asos.com/May-28th/MAY-28TH-Deer-Watch-Black-Matte-Plastic-Buckle/Prod/pgeproduct.aspx?iid=2393974&cid=5088&sh=0&pge=0&pgesize=20&sort=-1&clr=Black

zoom in feature, move mouse cursor up and down to view the details.

I have looked into Behance.net by using keywords such as magnify, zoom in, meat, and burger to look for inspirations. I have found an interesting illustration of a burger. The burger is separated into groups (ingredients) and this inspired me of categorizing each stage of process into different parts.

http://pinterest.com/liwei3/inspiration

magnifying?

Visited Behance.net to look for inspiration for my content by searching using keyword "magnify".

http://www.behance.net/gallery/Moms-toy/328873

somehow, it's still kind of related to factory as it's showing different part of the process. for example the links below:

http://www.behance.net/gallery/Ninja-Assassin-The-Spybook/2455581

http://www.behance.net/gallery/The-Spy-Book/4199203

discussion // tutorial

Sticking to the concept: magnifying, I have to come out with the content of my website. I have discussed with my lecturer about the content yesterday but in the end we realised that there are some parts missing in order to link the content as a whole. I have to really think of the content that able to deliver the message to the audience as it's most important thing. For now, my content that I have planned and proposed seems not working as the audience might not know the relation between eating meat and global warming.

technical documentation

I have found some technical aspect that related to my project.
I have searched for Facebook API javascript and see whether I can retrieve user's data through Facebook and i actually did find few scripts that enable me to do so.
however, my current concern is the knowledge of applying it into the script of my website. So far, we have learned how to integrate Flickr to website using Flash and Flickr API during Mervin's workshop in last semester. I think it is possible to do so as many of the applications have done the similar thing.

For my website, I will need a javascript Facebook API that enable me to retrieve user's most active friends list and their location. 

Retrieve Facebook user's friend list 

http://thinkdiff.net/facebook/how-to-retrieve-facebook-users-friendlist/

Retrieve user data from Facebook connect in ASP.NET

http://devtacular.com/articles/bkonrad/how-to-retrieve-user-data-from-facebook-connect-in-aspnet/

get user's friends, and send message to them through facebook.

stackoverflow.com/questions/6124848/how-to-get-users-friends-from-facebook-and-send-them-all-messages-by-using-c

get user's friends' information using javascript SDK

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3324396/how-to-get-facebook-users-friends-information-using-javascript-sdk

Facebook developers

http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/rest/friends.getLists/

How to integrate with facebook connect

http://devtacular.com/articles/bkonrad/how-to-integrate-with-facebook-connect/



Here I also found that there is actually script that can allow people to retrieve top friends in Facebook:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7020910/facebook-graph-api-finding-a-users-top-friends

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5516627/facebook-graph-api-get-friends-info

art direction // moodboard

As the concept of my project is magnifying. The users are required to explore and find out things in the website in order to know the result. So I have planned to have a mysterious theme for my website. As the idea/content of my website = "factory" is a non-existing kind of building. therefore, i was thinking to have surrealism art direction for my website to create that kind of "mysterious" feeling.

I have looked into several photo montages artists' works and one of them who has inspired me: Jerico Santander.  I have done researched on this artist's work during my first year and I found out that most of his works create mysterious mood. He was inspired by surrealism artists to lead him to produce artworks towards surrealism. He used several pictures and combine them together to form a complete artwork. Example of his works:

source: http://www.jericosantander.com/

Beside his artworks, I also found some other photo montage artists who produce amazing and impressive artworks. Most of these artworks are towards to surrealism and hence create a mystery and fantasy mood in terms of the colour used and the design element in the particular artwork. 

source: http://www.zimbio.com/Sarolta+Kovacs/articles/bQdzZljzKBU/Surreal+Photo+Manipulations


http://www.tutorart.com/index.php/daily-inspiration-439/

Here I also found some example of factory that brings out the mysterious mood: 

source: http://www.behance.net/gallery/Mannequin-Workers/844033

Here is another example (less similar) of how the mystery mood I want to create:

source: http://www.behance.net/gallery/Mystery-Case-Files-MillionHeir/485184

http://www.behance.net/gallery/-/819113

overall mood:

 
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one point perspective of view.

source: quitdoingitlabs.com

source: http://www.ea.com/monopoly-hotels-ios/images/vip-guests

source: http://www.behance.net/gallery/Haunted-Mansion/784313