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.