Fall 2012
Monday, December 3: Last Day of Class. Class starts late at 12:30 due to Senior presentations. Work in class on Behance site and photos of any remaining portfolio pieces.
Wednesday, December 5: No Class. Please post a link to your Behance portfolio on your blog by end of day.
Posted in Deadline Reminders
For the next few classes, we are going to be working on preparing your work to show well in a portfolio. Please bring your cameras and physical samples of work from any of you classes to photograph.
Also, if any of you have an iPad, please bring it with you so we can use it to shoot our digital book covers.
As mentioned in class, I have changed the format size of the Visual Interview project:
A 2-sided French fold piece. You may choose between a square or a rectangular format. Rectangle: unfolded dimensions are 11×17 (four 5.5×8.5 quadrants). Square: unfolded dimensions are 11×11 (four 5.5×5.5 quadrants). To achieve full bleed, you should print these on a 12×18 sheet of paper.
Today: Rough printed and folded mockups.
Monday, Nov. 19th: Final Presentation of full color mockups.
Hey All,
Got stuck in a big traffic jam on the way back from St. Louis this morning. Go ahead and start critiquing roughs in small groups. I’ll be about an hour late.
Ryan
Posted in General Class Info
Visual Interview: Type out and edit your interviews. As you go through, identify symbols and other ideas for imagery. Pull inspirational images to inform your concepts.
Here are more photos of past examples of this project, although the format was slightly different and there was absolutely no type in these examples. These show good examples of how images can be the dominant tool for storytelling. Be sure to investigate all the semiotics and methods of image making you have learned so far in this class. Sign, Icon, Index, Symbol. Found images, constructed images, manipulated images.
I this project you will interview a classmate, write a narrative that describes them—their personality, history of experiences, virtues, hopes and dreams, etc—and using photography and limited text, create a printed piece that tells their story as a visual/tactile experience.
Format
A 2-sided French fold piece. The unfolded dimensions are 14”x14” (four 7”x7” quadrants)
User experience
This piece is to be experienced in four parts: (1) fully folded, like a book cover, (2) first unfold, like a 2-page spread, (3) fully open, revealing all four quadrants of the inside, and (4) flipping the piece to reveal all four quadrants of the back.
Your story will literally unfold.
Text
You will be required/allowed to use 1–3 text boxes, somewhere in the piece to set your written narrative about your subject. For this, you will use one body appropriate typeface. No expressive type will be allowed in this project.
Page layout
Though your photographic images will be edited in Adobe Photoshop, the layout must be done in InDesign and output as a PDF for the Print Center.
Challenges in this project
> photography as visual narrative
> non-linear storytelling
> analog/manual experience design
> complex layout and creative use of white space
> multiple orientations of imagery and text
> technical & manual craft
> balance & dynamics of composition
> type/image and image/image relationships
> activate all 8 panels
Process
Step 1: Select a partner to interview and create interview questions.
Step 2: Edit written interview and assemble photo library.
Step 3: Rough Sketches: at least 10 thumbnails
Step 4: Rough Mockups: 3 directions
Step 5: Final Full Color Mockup
This project should display evidence of all principles and techniques learned in the three previous projects.
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