Week 9 - Some details on pull tab brochure and what content to include in brochure

Today I started to look into more on the structure on mechanics of the pull tab brochure I found on youtube. I notice that the pull tab is actually the last page and is attached together with the other pages. As for my previous try out, the pull tab is actually separated from the content pages therefore I would need to try this out in paper too.

Another thing I notice is the entire size of the brochure is actually an A4 size be cause when the person place her hands on the brochure to pull, her thumbs were around the bottom quarter of the brochure, therefore I can say that the brochure is actually an A4 size or at least around that size.

The next thing I have to find out what size are the pages of content on the pull tab side, there are 7 pages including the 1st content and all are equal size. For the 1st content page and the bottom of the 2nd content page, it should take around a quarter of the A4 size, then the bottom of each page content should be all the same length.

I did a rough A4 size of how the brochure who look like and using the different colors to differentiate the different content pages. On the left hand side, I would have the basic information of what poverty is, proceeding with facts of poverty on the right side of the brochure and types of poverty. I decided not to include too much of text as people wouldn't want to spend their time to read the entire story and world about poverty, therefore I would have to narrow down the content and importance of what people should know about poverty. Facts of poverty and the types would use up the 6 pages of content pages on the right and the last remaining pull tab, the indigo color page would teach and info the public on how they could help to prevent/ stop poverty. Also I would definitely include some images probably online so that the reader don't just get all text on the brochure.

Week 7 - Try out on brochure of mechanism

After going through several tutorials on youtube, I went on to try out these mechanism that I would be applying for my brochure. The steps are actually quite straight forward but the tricky thing is the get all the measurement correct in order to get the perfect outcome. Before using the actual material of the brochure, I first use normal pieces of A4 paper to try it out. Below are some of the examples of the tutorial I found on the internet:

 

These example are actually for gift cards or invitation cards that the interaction takes place before the opening which is the cover of the card, but the mechanism are roughly the same to put it inside of the brochure. After watching the video, I proceeded to do my first try out which was a failure, as the pull tab I made, was not long enough, therefore, when I pull it, the content that will be reveal will only be very minimum as seen in the picture below.

 

Without a bigger paper, I had to stick 2 A4 paper together in order to get the suitable length of the pull tab I wanted. After doing so, all I had to do is stick the pieces of paper, that would eventually be the content of the brochure onto the pull tab on each markings on the pull tab ( the folded sharp edges on the long paper )

Below are the results of the try out of the mechanism I did. Now the hard part comes as I have to design and decide and what content I would use and to put on each of the pieces of paper. I would need to do another try out on paper by designing the content and print into the paper to find out whether the content would be viewer when pull out with the tab. The small sign 'pull here' would be the section where the picture of props of the begging hand would be placed. As the pull tab is pull out, I would also need to design the content for it as I wouldn't want it to be just empty. I would also need to consider putting images into the brochure as images would also give an impact to the reader.