Further steps...

Though I have achieved the message I wanted to put across, I have lots of ideas about where this could go next. I think as an idea, it has a lot of potential.


To start with I could finish making summaries of every book in the Odyssey and make more Pop Ups with just one useful fact on, like the epithet one. But why stop there? There are thousands different books provided for on the sites I have looked at. I could give the organisation a catchy title and every Pop Up could link back to this: a manifesto about supporting visual learning and technology and links to the study guide for every book on the database.

It never ends...

Students are constantly on the internet so it would not take long for this to spread by friends sharing it. I would like it to be used by everyone, not just students, encouraging the world to become familiar with challenging literature they may not have touched before. And I don't mean watching the film version.


The proposed site could have downloadable .PDF files to aid studies and posters to print off, utilizing the power of images in learning.

Gif version

I have struggled with Dreamweaver and it does not look as though I will be able to make actual web pages with pop ups. This gives a better idea of how the image would pop up, surprising the reader.

FULL SCREEN

I'm happy with the way this looks, it's how I imagined it.

Sparknotes: Pop Up Attack

Helpful!

Sparknotes: Pop Up Attack

Pop up summary of Books 1 & 2

Shmoop: Pop Up Attack

This is how I want it to look! Now I need to see how the book summaries would look.

Pop Up Development

Here is what the image below looks like now I've photoshopped it to look like an Internet window. Before I attempt to make this as a real website, I want to make an image to show how it will look.

The word epithet would lead to a fact page in the same style when clicked.

Design for Pop Up: Dawn epithet

Here is an image I have designed and drawn, using all the components I could think of (bold simple imagery, bright colour, a short and memorable phrase) to make this stick in someone's mind.

My decision to keep to highlighter colouring was to keep the colours bright and to immediately lead the viewer to think of education/facts. The handwritten text and loose drawing are to mark this out as not your usual pop up. A regression to past media can be powerful in making people stop and think. 

Also, this image looks contemporary and playful; the attractive antidote to a boring old book. I'd rather look at this if I was tired and needed information fast.

Pop up plan

Here are some doodles from my sketchbook to show I have thought about the layout and content of potential 'guerilla educating' Pop Ups. I'm sticking to The Odyssey for all the reasons I have mentioned previously.

I aim to make them brightly coloured, entertaining and relevant to today's culture so people don't close them immediately.

Shmoop

After attacking poor Sparknotes.com quite a bit, I've moved on to the similar Shmoop.com which I found out about when searching Tumblr

"lol if online stuff like this didn't exist then i would be failing english"

After choosing this site as the target for my pop up experiment (it has absolutely NO images except a page of fairly inaccessible classical paintings) I began to play...

How to spring information on people? Pop it up!

In light of Sarah Maple's unexpected, uncontrollable sabotage, I was thinking of more technologically advanced way to spring information on people: Pop Ups.

I thought this form would be especially interesting to explore as they always contain useless or false information for advertising.


But more often than not they use images...