Building the 2nd Prototype

We've begun building our second prototype!

Our first bag turned out rather small, so the dimensions of the bag have been greatly increased so we can put a professional video camera with all the additional equipment in it.

Cutting out pockets and the reinforcing cardboard walls.

Most of our bag were made using recycled parts from the large vinyl banners in the Makerspace Lab.

Using this for our bag straps!

Showcasing Our First Prototype

Here is our completed first prototype that we showed during class today:

Unfolded Mode

 

Backpack Mode

We received some valuable feedback from our professor, Andrew Quitmeyer, and our classmates during the showcase today. Taking everything into consideration, we'll be looking into making some changes to our design for the next prototype!

Production has Begun on Our First Prototype!

We've begun building our first prototype! It will be showcased during class next Monday (22 Oct).

Designing the Prototype - Pt. 5 How to Use

 How to use the Wonkru video camera bag:

1. Attach tripod to the tripod holder.

2. Once you have the tripod securely attached, then you can extend your
tripod legs and unfold the backpack.

3. Mount your camera on the tripod base plate at the top. You now have the ultimate portable video studio with every videography tool you need!

Designing the Prototype - Pt. 4 Functionality

We added pockets into the upper-middle flap so that the user would be able to store additional camera lenses, external microphones, and/or portable lights.

 

Finally, we added tripod attachment hooks at the back of the backpack. This not only allows the user to attach their tripod to the backpack, but when the backpack is unfolded while attached to the tripod, it would finally become the ultimate portable video studio that we had envisioned.

Designing the Prototype - Pt. 3 Solar Power

When shooting live events, the last thing you want is for your camera battery to run out of power at a critical moment, so we designed our portable video studio to have a solar panel that could charge our camera via wireless inductive charging. The solar panel is located at the back of the top flap, so when the flap is folded forward, the solar panel will be revealed.

Designing the Prototype - Pt. 2 Securing the Bag

In order to give the camera a rigid body, the walls would have to be reinforced with cardboard, and zips would have to be added to the sides:

Then, we decided to add a 2” wide flap at the top of the bag and it would have a Velcro strip so that it would be able to secure the top of the bag while simultaneously be fast and easy to open.

Designing the Prototype - Pt. 1 Shape & Dimensions

First, we came up with the shape and dimensions of the bag. The size of the backpack would have to be able to fit a professional video camera, and it would look like a rectangular backpack that would be able to unfold completely like this:

This is how the camera would be orientated when it sits in the camera bag:

Initial Design Process - Pt. 2 Storyworld

We thought about how this new portable video studio would be useful in the future not just for live event videographers, but also for regular people, and thus we created a storyworld that would warrant such a tool:

Storyworld:

In the year 20XX, traditional news outlets have become universally banned in the global effort to combat fake news. As a result, citizen journalism has become the main source of news, and individuals now sell their self-recorded news footage directly to broadcast stations that are willing to pay lucrative amounts of money for footage of a high standard. In this video-quality-competitive world, gone are the days of blur and shaky videos recorded on mobile phones being shared on social media, as stable top-grade Ultra HD video footage has become the expected standard across all digital platforms.

In the wake of this newfound universal demand for professional videography, Wonkru Designs has created an innovative camera bag that has the storage space to hold a 12K UHD camcorder while simultaneously having the function to unfold itself into a sturdy tripod.

Note: We also created two microfictions based on this storyworld we had created, which you can view here: http://www.wearablestudio.org/2018/10/15/share-your-world-boo-shangyou-low-jia-yi/

After coming up with this storyworld, we then began designing and building our prototype.