enjoy the summer

Monday we will have formal critique on everyone's rough drafts. You should render out your rough draft and place it in Google Drive as an mp4 before class. Include your entire sequence set to your music, even if you have black spots which are only music/sound so we can get an idea for the entire flow.

Continue working towards your Rough Draft (75% complete) due next Monday

Work towards your Rough Draft (75% complete) for April 20th

On monday we will check-in on progress, sign up for a time here: Google Doc

5 total motion sprites, with audio

1. Taking the feedback you got today, add additional detail and refine your digital storyboards. Turn in a new PDF with your designs to google drive for Monday.

2. Next, create two (2) motion sprites that are less than 10 seconds each showing how your typography appears in motion, based on your digital designs. Use real footage, real assets that you have created. Export out as .mp4 and upload to drive.

6-8 representative compositions created as a storyboard in PDF form, uploaded to Google Drive.

Designs should be based on your storyboard and mood board. Your mock-ups can be a combination of photos, digital compositions (in photoshop/illustrator/by hand + photographed/etc) and video stills. They should represent actual compositions of the final title sequence.

Animatics due Monday. Photograph your templates in sequence. Utilize your chosen audio to determine cuts. Export as movie and review for missing frames or gaps in the story.

FINAL storyboards due Wednesday. Also due, Step 5b: Choose an audio track and/or voice over to help establish the pacing of your story.

Pick a narrative structure to explore that we talked about today. Start sketching, start rough storyboards. Enjoy spring break.

• Type Only - Thank you for Smoking, Superman, Happy Film
• Setting - True Blood, The Walking Dead, Wimbeldon
• Backstory/History - show a backstory through new or found footage Fury
• Objects - show an important object Iron Man
• Multiple Objects - Napolean Dynamite
• Multiple Objects as metaphor for specific themes - To Kill a Mockingbird
• Ritual - show a character performing a ritual (morning routine, preparing for a murder, etc) Dexter
• Metaphor - represent a story theme Casino, Walk on wild side
• Texture/Detail - show a series of textures/details that sets a mood Marco Polo Making of Marco Polo Evil Dead

Watch inspiration: + space sex + race for the white house + forms in nature

Gather your mood board together using Pinterest or other tools. Print before next class and be ready to pin on wall for discussion.

Mind map examples: 1 2

1. Create a mind map on a large scroll of paper. Your mind map is your research made visual through words, phrases, drawings and images (images can be screen grabs from the film and/or shot images and/or found images and/or hand sketches.) Refer to the Project Sheet for more info.

2. Begin gathering your mood board together using Pinterest.

Choose a film. Watch it. Watch it again. Write a 2 paragraph summation of the plot.

• Choose a film that is interesting to you.
• Choose a film that you are intimately familiar with, do NOT simply choose a film that you like. The more you know about the film the better (plot nuances, historical context and relevance, use of metaphor/symbolism, info about the director/actors/editor, etc.). Is the film an adaptation of a book or short story. If so, read it.
• Choose a film that does NOT have a 'designed' title sequence.
• It is best to choose a film 'classic' or one that has a historical context (within the film industry). Avoid obscure films, sequels and b-movies.
• Write a 2 paragraph summation of the story. Please do not copy/paste other's wok and give credit to any source.

Respond to critique and feedback. If you haven't already upload your first motion poem. Then create, render and upload the second, alternate poem with the new random rule to your Vimeo before class.

One compelete, 8 word motion peom is due. Include sound/music that you have generated. Render with Adobe Media Encoder and uploaded to your Vimeo.

1. Add sound to at least four more of your edited motion studies
2. Storyboards for three motion poems. The motion poems will be 8 words. The order, timing, and transitioning will be up to you. The important thing is to construct a narrative. Each person needs to make their own. Build your thoughts before you get on the computer.

Consider:

• Try to find patterns in your words
• Consider the shared meaning or interpretations of the words
• Are ther color similarities/contrast?
• Light/darkness
• How your editing style matches the definitions
• Think of your words as fridge magnet poetry. What order of the words would be interesting to tell a story?

As you sketch think about:
• scale (exaggerate), space (activate), speed (vary)
• pacing and variation: use a variety of shots to keep it interesting.
• build your arc: know where the beginning, middle and end of your narrative is

When creating your storyboards your sketches should suggest DIFFERENT layouts/compositions and transitions. Can be overlaid, create a grid, use blend modes, split-screen.

1. Add sound to four of your edited motion studies
2. We will continue recording audio on Wednesday, have ideas what you want to record

1. Upload final motion studies to Google Drive folder. You should have at least one per word, or more. Due at start of class Monday.

2. Bring in some objects that will help you generate sounds related to your words. a list of suggested items include:

• nature
• urban/rural environments
• instruments
• keyboards
• toys
• mouth
• computer voice
• tools
• sampling from found sources
• hardware/software
• video games
• utensils
• household objects
• animals: real and stuffed
• squeezy things
• food
• generators/drums/midi/sequencers:

++ sampulator
++ io808
++ 808cube
++ typedrummer
++ drum machine

Trim footage + upload to Google Drive (all studies are due on Monday)

Be ready Wednesday to shoot your in-camera type. Make sure you bring:

• Camera, batteries, sd cards, lighting equipment, etc
• Your found materials, objects and assets for filming your type

Assets include any typographic compositions you want to project as digital files, typography you may have cut out, printed off on acetate, and/or plans to make handmade typography.

1. Organize, name and review footage from today.
2. Gather remaining materials, supplies, type, etc. for next week's type workshops. Brainstorm what literal and metaphoric meanings your words have:

• Select your 3+3+3+3 words
• Literal meaning: Begin to understand and give meaning to your words. Start with dictionary defintions of each word. (this is the denotative)
• Related meaning: Assign synonyms and related words.
• Metaphoric meaning: What metaphors come to mind for each word? List them. (this is the connotative)
• Color: What colors come to mind for each word? List them. (color can suggest meaning and/or mood)
• Material: What materials and textures come to mind for each word?
• Sound: What sounds come to mind for each word?
• Cultural: What cultural cues come to mind for each word? Does the word realate to the past, present, future.

Hand in digital OR hand-made documentation of your findings.

Bring to class any assets and materials related to your words next week.

Due Monday Jan 27th.

1. familiarize yourself with the class website and the resources available.
2. make sure all emails go to your ccs account.
3. if you haven't already, acquire an online backup drive or physical drive.
4. create a required vimeo account. send to me an email with the URL to add to class site.
5. be ready to group present your title sequences next class.