Forests Ibook

This is the front cover of my ibook. I have used this image of a sapling as the cover image because the greens are very vibrant and fresh looking and it goes well with the rest of my theme for the ibook. I also thought the idea of a sapling being the start of the life of a tree in a forest would be good for the start of an ibook about forests. I have used my Forests logo here for the title of the book and I tried to put in the Wonders of Nature logo somewhere on the front cover but it seemed out of place and didn't fit well into the image because of the tree graphic within the logo. I just didn't look right anywhere on the front cover so I left it out.

This is my first page for chapter one. Each chapter covers a different forest and the chapter pages use an image in relation to each forests with the illustrated title, as well as a paragraph with a brief overview about each forest. White and black text was very hard to read on the background images along so I had to add a black strip across the image with a 65% opacity so that the image still showed through and the white text was also more legible on top of the strip.

This is the first page for sherwood forest, i've decided to use this image of open pages on a wooden surface as the background for my ibooks because it gives it a vintage and homemade feel and it also look like a scrap book which is the style im trying to achieve in my ibook. On the wooden part of the background I have layered some elements to look it more like someone's desk, such as money, tickets, keys or similar objects you'd find on a person's desk. The decorations that I have created for the wooden part of the background differ on each chapter as they relate to the place the forest is located or the content that is being covered on that page.

Several pages in my ibook are also adorned with postage stamps from the different countries that the forest are in. These are just decorative elements to add to my scrap booking theme, as well as the stitching effect around some of the images with the buttons and ribbon bow.

The polka dot strip that sometimes decorate the sides or top and bottom of the page are a reoccurring theme throughout my ibook 

The only interactive part for this page is the fun fact pop up that i've put over my graphic of the acorn with the stitching around it.

This is the second page for my sherwood chapter and I have decided to insert and image gallery to save space so that the page isn't cluttered with images and it also makes it interactive. I've used torn edges on the image gallery with a transparent background to make it look as if it has been slightly torn and lifted off the page.

This is the first page for the Aokigahara forest chapter. Unfortunately this page isn't interactive at all and is completely static. I wasn't sure what to put here interactivity wise and if I had the time I would've liked to try and make the arrows on the compass animate, to shake or spin when you tapped the compass.

Here I have used the torn edge effect on my images and on the decorative japanese postage stamps to give it that scrappy feel again. I think these stamps work well here and compliment the photo of the forest under Mt.Fuji, as there is a lot of blue and green in the photo which match with the blue and green on the flower stamp.

Here I have used an image of a note paper to write my content text on to make some variety between the text content box I made to put my text in. I also though this made it feel more like a scrap book with the drop shadow and the tilted angle. This wasn't my original intention when I was creating this page, but I have decided to put in an image of a compass here as the text on the paper is about the magnetic rocks and it mentions how this stops compasses from working inside the forest. I cut out the shape of the compass using a clipping mask and saved it as a png with a transparent background. That way I could put on a drop shadow in ibooks author and place it so that it's partly on the page and partly on the wooden background, so that it would look as if the person who own's the 'scrap journal' had gone to the forest and used that compass to test it out.

This is the second page for Aokigahara Forest. I have put in another image gallery here which contains photos of the inside of one of the forest caves. I've decided to put some of my text content about the cave inside the gallery as i thought it would be more efficient to accompany each image in the gallery with a relative description, and so that the page doesn't seem so text heavy.

I'm not as keen on the visual style of this page. I thought it looked quite bland compared to the previous pages so i tried decorating it with some post stamps as well and some japanese money and a train ticket but I think the main problem is that it is lacking the colour variety that the other pages had. I also think my ibook overall could do with more interactive elements.

This is the first page for my chapter covering the jungles spread out through the madagascar islands.

I feel like this page is also rather bland, I found it difficult to layer things on or make space for more imagery with the keynote file in there as I didn't want to cover the animation. I have also decorated it with madagascan postage stamps and used stitching around the image as well as the polka dot strip I've commonly used.

This is the interactive keynote widget I made. I made two separate elements in illustrator which as supposed to layer on top of each other. In key note I have animated it so that when you tap on the 'Read Me!' tab it will slide out and it contains some information, somewhat like a fun fact.