Font Agreed

After agreeing that the font for our game should be in the style of handwriting both myself and Clare brought to the session (25/10/11) the ones we preferred. Still undecided we carried out an opinion poll, results are shown below.

How to…. Teach kids about photography

As part of my contextual research report I have been reading about photography for kids.  I have bought two books from Amazon this afternoon Picture This: Fun Photography and Crafts (Kids Can Do It) - Debra Friedman & Jane Kurisu and Photography for Children - John M. Pickering, hopefully this will be interesting reading.  

The reason for this line of research is that I want to make sure that the content of what we are teaching the kids through our game is not only accurate but also appropriate for the target audience, children.

The books won't land on my mat for a few days and in that I am impatient I decided to visit the ol' interweb.  I came across Digital Photography School with a fantastic piece called 13 lessons to teach your child about photography.  The author and founder of the school, Darren Rowse, explained not only what to teach the kids, but also how to.  The article breaks down elements such as composition and exposure with simple terms and metaphors.  Personally being a visual/kinasthetic learner, I found his metaphors very clear.  Hopefully I can transfer what I have learned from him, into our work.  Thanks Darren!

Tags: How to, Photography for kids, Contextual Research, Research.

The name of the game!

I have the ABBA song ringing through my head, had to find it on youtube.  Why? we now have a name for our game!

From all the associated words that I had brainstormed my panel of 32 high school pupils selected their top 3 names for our game.

Photo Duty
Graphic Pursuit
Snaps Academy

My personal favourite is Snaps Academy (I am biased as this was my suggestion).  Thank you to Liam and Issac for the other two suggestions.

The one that pipped the others to the post was..... SNAPS ACADEMY! Woohooooo! So our baby is named.

Next stop... a logo....