Category: Brid Brief

During the lecture the other day I was thinking about more ideas and came up with the following 2.

Idea 1:

An AR Camera Phone App that show’s how Bridlington used to look in times past.

• Places old versions of buildings and attractions in Bridlington over the person’s surroundings, viewable on their mobile phone in the app’s camera.
• It could have options for different decades: it could be interesting for children to see the earlier iterations of the town and fun for parents and older generations to see familiar scenes from the past.
• It could have a slider to go between old and new.
• Some of the assets could have sound effects or moving elements to them to make it more engaging.

Idea 2:

A Virtual Fish Tank.

• This would be a digital installation using monitors/screens to show virtual fish swimming in a tank.
• An interactive element would be using cameras to show the live scenery behind the tank as it would be through water, people could stand behind and have someone take their photo as if they were looking through a large fish tank.
• Would be a few screens placed on the seafront to make a cuboid shape/ to give the illusion of a 3D tank.
• These fish in the tank could be designed on a smaller screen at the front, maybe chose pre made elements and put them together then draw on it with the software to give it colours and patterns of your choice. Each fish would be unique.
• Once you have created the fish there could be a button you press on the smaller screen to release it into the tank, it is then animated splashing into the tank and swimming around.
• Maybe an added element of when the fish splashes in the installation sprays some water at you.

Idea 3:

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My current main idea was to bring back the seaside classic photo cut-out boards. This would be done in the form of an interactive touch screen. This screen would have a live camera feed and would transmit your image onto the screen and then onto a filter. These filters would be the board designs, though they would be modernised to a more modern art style.

The interface would work with a bar on the display screen where you can select the filter you like best then a capture button would be pressed and a 3-second timer given before the image is taken.

The image it takes could then be added to a running social media account for the person to go and download the images or maybe the machine could somehow print the image as a souvenir. There would be different kinds of filters for the board, some that incorporate the background and some that are just the person’s face.

Additional expansion to this design could be the full-screen filters moving and working like a gif, possibly with matching sound effects. Alternatively, you could have another board producing funhouse mirror kind of effects.

Below are some visualisations of this idea created in XD.

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This is the collage I used using iconic elements from the seaside and the beach experience in general. I mixed old and new images together as people have been holidaying at the seaside for hundreds of years and it is a nice contrast.

Growing up I visited the seaside a lot to visit family so this research task was quite straightforward for me. When researching the British seaside I saw a lot of recurring themes.

I saw a lot of reference to “Punch and Judy” and traditional puppet shows. I included a photo of one of these being presented on the beach as it is a traditional element of the seaside. I also included a photo of a food stand on the beach. This is a typically British sight at the seaside serving soft scoop, chips and a cup of tea.

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Below is a very familiar sight to anyone who’s ever been to a British seaside, amusements. The style of amusements is very ‘vintage’ nowadays but it’s such an intrinsic element of the seaside it will likely look like that for as long as amusements exist.

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I also found a lot of images of these photo cut-out boards. I see these a lot at the seaside and think they are a recognisable seaside attraction.