Countdown Project File Submission, Critique, and Discussion
During the beginning portion of class, we will collect and transfer all videos for the Visual Countdown Project. Use the D2L Dropbox, google drive, or else files can also be transferred manually. You should also consider making an account on Vimeo and joining the 388 Vimeo Group for sharing videos online.
After work is collected, we you should pair up into small groups of about 3 people. All of the projects will be reviewed as a screening program. Then, each animation will be played back in a loop. You and your group should talk about the animated sequence with consideration to things like timing/sync, composition, typographic characters, use of color and other visual elements that might be present in the work. After each animation loops a few times, we will move on to the next until we have seen all of the projects. Following the small group review there will be a brief break.
As a large group, we will then play through the animations again with time to add some of the observations that were made in the smaller groups.
Kinetic Type Project Introduction and Preliminary Work
A new project will be introduced in class that focuses on the use of typographic characters to visualize a significant dialogue/monologue. The Kinetic Type Project Page outlines what the project requirements, deadlines, and evaluation criteria are. It also has several example projects that can be used for reference that were created as demonstration examples or by students.
Following the introduction of the project you are welcome to use the remaining time doing preliminary research for the project.
One of the first considerations for the Kinetic Type Project will be the choice of dialogue/monologue. There are a lot of different ways to get a sample, and it is important to remember that the audio sample is going to be what will drive the animation that you create. Your sound should be recorded or copied from your source and you should also document as much as you can from the original source. For example, if I were to use a sample from Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure, I would want to mark the location the sample appeared in the film (timestamp), Directed by Stephen Herek, Written By Chris Matheson and Ed Solomon, from the Production Company Interscope Communications Nelson Entertainment, Distributed by Orion Pictures, and features the voices of Alex Winter as Bill, Keanu Reeves as Ted, and George Carlin as Rufus. Some of that information will appear in my project as a credit. It is good practice to document the original source when you work on a project of this nature. Our project will fall into a grey area in copyright called the Fair Use Clause. We are working for educational purposes in regards to typography and motion graphic animation and will only be using the original sound recording. Our work does in infringe on the market value of the original material, and we are not selling the work or soundtrack to other people.
The following work flow will be demonstrated during this or the next class session: