Cutting down videos

I had to come to create a flick book to show as a prototype. I took a video from YouTube i found of a good quality and started to cut the video down into frames.

The video was 14 seconds long and after i decided to cut it down into 20fps i set out the layout and printed them off,

This is how i set out the flick book to make sure i used most of the stock and made cutting easier.

I came to a problem when i printed a video. I had to cut out 28 pages worth of screens each having 12 screens on each page.

The total of the flick book came to 336 whilst this wasn't a problem for cutting out it was very difficult to think of how to bind such a amount of card along with the ability to flick through it being compromised.

I drew up some design sheets to try and conquer the way i could bind these together.

I came up with the way to hole punch my way through the pages in sections.

By hole punching 20 pages at a time i managed to keep a consistent way of getting a hole through the whole item.

I tried to use string and stitch the book up but it was too thick that anything i tried would snap or not hold them together good enough. I ended up using an elastic band strung through and tied around the other side. This allowed for an amount of stretch to be applied when trying to flick each book but it wouldn't snap like the previous tried and tested methods.

After i  figured out how to bind these together i started to think about how i could package them with a sleeve rather than a box as these where really quite large and where almost unusable.

I drew up an example of what it could look like including a date stamped onto the top to allow people to see the progress throughout the years.

Knowing how large these where going to be i decided to look into how i could package them all together and include a poster where i could have the flick book put in front of the poster to complete the bar chart and add abit of extra interactivity to the mix.

The elastic band worked really well to hold them all together.

The width wasnt so much of a problem as it took on the shape of one of the retro style boxes quite well.

the thickness of the flick book was really not useable and ruined the  idea to an extent.

The flick book however do work pretty well when flicked through but then again i have quite large hands.

The above video shows me using the flickbook and i figured it would still be worth the try to package the flickbook.