Hi, my name's Mr. Brown.

Welcome to this lesson.

Looking forward to working with you today.

This lesson's going to be all about assembling components for an interactive book.

So I hope you're ready.

Hope you've got everything ready with you.

Let's get on.

Okay, so today's learning outcome is about assembling components and making your book aesthetically pleasing.

The keywords today are bridge, material used to keep mechanisms in place.

A tab, which is used to join two shapes.

Aesthetics, which is how a product looks.

Components, different parts of a product.

And cover, that's the material hiding a linkage.

Now you don't need to know all of these keywords in full depth yet because we're going to get through those throughout the slide deck, but all will become clear as we go through the lesson.

The lesson outcome today is two learning cycles and the first learning cycle is creating bridges for linkages.

And the second learning cycle is assembling components.

Now we're going to be focusing on the first learning cycle, which is creating bridges for linkages.

Now you may know a bridge as something that allows water to go underneath or it might allow a railway or a road or a pathway, something that allows movement to go underneath it.

Now this is exactly the same with what we're thinking about when we're talking about a bridge for a linkage.

Now sometimes it's called a guide, but usually, we're just gonna use the term bridge for the moment.

And what it does is it allows things to move underneath it.

Now this is an example.

This is a bridge on a bell crank linkage with this dinosaur.

Now when the dinosaur's tail is moved, then the bridge, which is that bit that you can just see by the jaw, that is actually used to support the jaw moving up and down and up and down.

Without that bridge there, and you can see it looks a little bit like a normal bridge that you are used to seeing.

Without that bridge, it might not work as effectively.

And it just keeps the linkage in place.

Check for understanding now.

So what is another word for a bridge? Is it a tab, a guide or a cover? Have a think.

Which is the alternative word for bridge, is it tab, guide or cover? That's right, it's guide.

Guide is another term that's used for bridge.

But from now on, as I said earlier, we're going to be thinking about the term bridge.

Now when we are using a bridge, and we're using a bridge within a mechanism or within a linkage, there must be space underneath.

You can't just put a piece of card over the linkage and expect it to work.

It does need to be a small amount of space for it to move freely.

Here's an example here.

If you look back at that dinosaur picture that we spoke about earlier, there's the bridge.

And what I've done is I've taken a picture there of the actual bridge before it's been put on and you can see that it's got that bridge look about it.

It's got a folded tab and that folded tab is then glued underneath and that holds the linkage in place.

Now the tabs have a really important job and they raised the bridge, so that creates that space that we were talking about earlier.

Now to make the bridge, you are going to need a ruler 'cause you'll need to measure.

A pencil 'cause we'll need to make marks to ensure we know where everything's gonna go.

Scissors and glue to cut out the bridge and then glue down the linkage.

Now what I've also done there is you've got three different types of card.

Now the type of card you use is really dependent upon the design that you are choosing.

With the dinosaur one that you saw a moment ago, we've used some corrugated cards, we needed something quite thick and quite robust.

And also, that was actually on the underside of the dinosaur and it wasn't going to be seen.

You might have a linkage which is going to be seen and you might want to actually have a piece of coloured card or a plain piece of card that you want to decorate.

Either of those is absolutely fine.

And those are the resources that you need to make the bridge.

Check for understanding now.

Have a look at this picture, and I've labelled it A, B and C.

So A is pointing to something, B is pointing to something, C is pointing to something on the bridge from the linkage, but which of them is the tab? Remember we spoke about tab a moment ago, so which of those is the tab? Right, well done.

So A is the fold, the fold of the bridge.

B is the main part of the bridge.

And C, C is the tab, that's one that we were looking for.

Okay, so when we're thinking about making a bridge for your linkage, you need to measure the strip of card to make sure it fits over your linkage, allowing extra space for having the tabs.

You then need to fold two side pieces and that will create the tabs.

You might want to measure them, use a ruler.

You can actually use a ruler to help fold those tabs over.

The next part will be to glue the tabs of the bridge onto the background page, and you'll probably obviously have to make sure that that is part of the linkage.

And then you need to test that the linkage moves freely under the bridge 'cause that's gonna be really important, because if you've used glue in a place where you are stopping the linkage working, and of course the linkage isn't gonna work.

Okay, it's now time for you to work on creating a bridge for your linkage.

This is task A and I'd like you to create a bridge for your linkage, I'm assuming that you actually need one.

Even if you think that you might not, it might be worth just really looking at your linkage and deciding, actually, I think an extra bridge there or here or there will actually make a big difference.

So you don't have to do one, you might need more than one, it depends upon the linkage that you've chosen.

However, when you are making them, I want you to measure a strip to fit over your linkage.

You need to fold two side pieces to create the tabs.

You need to glue the tabs over your mechanism and then you need to just check that that linkage moves freely under the bridge.

Right, enough from me.

It's now time for you to get started.

So look at your design, look at your linkage.

Now you need to think about where is a bridge going to be really helpful for you to keep the mechanism in place.

Go ahead, I'll see you in a few minutes once you've done that.

Good luck.

Hope it all goes well and well done in advance.

Welcome back.

I'm sure you've got on really, really well with that in being able to introduce a bridge to your design.

Let's go through what the success criteria was.

So it's about measuring a strip of card to fit over your linkages.

Measuring is a really key part there.

Folding two side pieces to create your tabs, then glueing the tabs.

And then lastly, and most importantly is testing that the linkage moves freely.

You may have noticed that you've stuck the bridge down and it might have had an effect which you weren't really expecting or you didn't really want and it's fine to go back there and just try it again.

Put it in, do something different 'cause that's what designers do all the time is test something, make sure it works.

If it doesn't work to what we really want, we go back and we try it again.

Okay, well done.

Onto lesson cycle two now.

So we've done the bridge, we've got our linkage, we're now gonna assemble all the components together and this might take quite some time so I'll get on with the explanation and leave you lots of making time.

Right, thinking about getting our components together.

Now components are the different parts of the product.

So in this case it's all the different parts that you've already made for your interactive page.

So it should be made up of, we've got a moving linkage with a bridge.

Hopefully you've got a background page, whether that's in card or paper that's entirely up to yourself.

You might have a cover over the linkage.

Now the cover might be there just to hide the linkage.

It's like a really big bridge if you want to put it in that regard, 'cause in some ways it will hold it together.

But the bridge is really holding the individual levers.

And you might think about a title, and of course you might be thinking about written information.

So it could be, this might be an information book about animals and you might want to have some key information boxes.

Or it could be a story, it could be a traditional tale and you might want to be telling the story as you're going through.

It all depends upon the design that you've actually chosen.

Now we're gonna be talking about covering the linkage now and going a bit more depth as to what that actually is.

So the linkage and the bridge were added to the background page, that was in the previous learning cycle.

And you may have chosen where you do want to cover some of the parts of the linkage.

So the linkage might be on the front of the the background page or it could be on the back.

The cover of course is gonna be needed to actually cover anything that you want hidden.

So if you don't want the mechanism to be shown, this is where the cover is really, really helpful.

We're going to go through and give you an example now.

So this is a cover being used on a parallel linkage.

Now you can see there's the parallel linkage.

So it's a boat on a parallel linkage.

It's been adapted slightly, so you've got these pool tabs.

We've then got the mechanism and that's got a cover which is gonna be glued on.

Now the way it's going to be glued is actually, can you see the tabs on either side? They're actually gonna be glued underneath the background page.

So it sort of like covers the whole entire page.

They don't have to be like that.

This design just shows you how to do it in this one example.

We've then got the mechanism working with the cover on.

And you can see there that the parallel linkage, the only part that's really seen there is the tab to pull it and the rest of the parallel linkage is hidden underneath that C cover.

Now we've got our cover.

We've spoken about how a cover is really important to maybe hide elements that we don't wanna see, and the final stage is now to make your components and the whole page aesthetically pleasing.

So how are you going to do that? Well, the term aesthetics is a word that describes what something looks like.

And if something is aesthetically pleasing, it's going to look really good.

And in this case, it will hopefully help your user want to look at your page.

Okay, check for understanding for you.

We've talked about this word aesthetics.

We talked about it in the keywords, we've talked about it in the last slide, but can you remember what it refers to? So does it refer to what the product does, what the product looks like, or how the product works? Which do you think is correct? That's right, it's what the product looks like.

So we are really thinking about the decorative techniques that you might actually use.

So to make the page aesthetically pleasing, you can use a whole variety of different ways of doing this.

Now it's going to be up to you and your teacher to discuss what you think is actually going to be best.

I've just put down some examples of what you might want to use.

So you might want to use writing pens.

These can be used for highlighting block words and letters or outlining shapes or writing information down.

We can use felt tip pens.

Now they're really bold and have bright colours and they're very, very good for decoration.

You might wanna use writing pencils to firstly do the writing or to sketch some shapes for yourself.

Alternatively, you could use coloured pencils.

You might want to use coloured pencils for colouring and shading shapes.

They also can have really good, bold and bright, colourful way of making your page look aesthetically pleasing.

What I would like you to do now is just have a short think whilst I'm talking, what do you think you would like to use? Have a little bit of time now just to discuss that.

Okay, now one way, we're gonna go through all of these now just to give you an example of what these different components are.

So we might think about the written components.

Now, you'll be thinking about the subheadings, the title.

You'll also be thinking about the information.

And when we are thinking about all of these different things, we might need to think about the style of writing that we're gonna be using.

So when you're writing the information, it's not necessarily gonna be bold and curly and bubbly, but the title might be.

It's not gonna be colourful, but the title might be, the subheadings might be.

It all depends upon the design that you are looking for.

Check for understanding.

True or false, the writing choices of the designer can impact the end product.

Is that true or false? That's right, it's true.

And why? Well, the font and style choices of the designer have a really big impact on encouraging the usability and interest of the product.

So it's really important that designers think about the writing choices that they choose, as well as all of the other components that we've talked about.

You can also consider other materials such as card and paper to create a positive impact upon your designs.

So do think about how you can shape card in different ways 'cause this can actually have a really positive impact.

So it could be for appearance, for the aesthetics to make it look really good.

You might consider scoring card to create a nice fold or you might want to have that as that element of that folding and something popping up.

You could have folding tabs or actually, folding can be done in different ways, so actually create an effect in this regard, not just folding for the tabs, but actually folding in a concertina effect can have a really interesting effect.

We can use curling.

Curling can create a really nice wave.

Now of course, you've gotta think about this book.

The book needs to open, it needs to close, so what is going to be best for your design? Okay, we're on to task B.

We are nearly ready to get on with the practical activity.

What I would like you to do is to complete your page from the interactive book, making sure that you've assembled together all of the different components.

So we've got the moving linkage, we've got the bridge, got the background page, we've got the cover, the title.

We've got the written information.

It's about pulling all of this together now.

Now this is just part one of task B because the other task is to actually make sure that you have made your page aesthetically pleasing.

So there's an example that's been done there on the sailing boats on the right hand side and you can see all of the different components being put together, but how can you make this aesthetically pleasing as well? Sometimes it just needs to be nice and simple.

So pull all the components together, make it look aesthetically pleasing.

This is a time that you need to go away and get on with the practical activity.

So good luck.

Hope it all goes really well.

I'm sure it will.

And I look forward to seeing what happens when you've finished.

Off you go.

Welcome back.

Now hopefully, we'll just go through a quick check, make sure that you've done everything that we've spoken about on the success criteria.

So have you got a moving linkage with a bridge? You probably have got a bridge, but if you haven't, just think about how you're keeping it in place.

A background page.

Now sometimes with the background page, it's really effective sometimes to choose a bright and colourful colour.

Sometimes it's also quite a good idea to have something quite neutral and then have all the colours being put on top of it.

That's something for you to work out yourselves.

Hopefully you've got a good combination.

You also should, if you needed to, have put a cover over the linkage.

And in the design that's there, we've actually put the written information on top of the cover as well, 'cause it doesn't just have to be decorative, it can actually be a really useful part as well.

And of course, we'll be thinking about how we've got the title as well.

Right, well done.

You now have a completely finished page for your interactive book.

You worked really hard on this, so well done.

You should be very proud of yourselves.

Last thing to do now is to go through the summary and the key learning points from today's lesson.

So we've learned that some linkages need bridges to make them work.

That mechanisms can be hidden using a cover.

We've learned that components need to be assembled together.

And then lastly, that font and stylistic choices can positively improve the end product.

That's the writing aspect that can really make your work look fantastic, which I'm sure they all do look fantastic.

So what I'd like to do is just to say thank you for being with me here today and I hope you have a good rest of the day.

Well done on doing your interactive page.

Congratulations.