final narrative project

school of dollars and sense process

since last we left off, the vislang has come along nicely. josh and i are actually really proud of it.

our organization has a name: the school of dollars and sense.

it has a kickin'-sweet seal.

it has spreads designed and copywritten.

we tiled together a huge dollar, and then also a huge penny, nickel, dime, and quarter.

we divvied the huge money up and took it home for thanksgiving in an attempt to corner parents & children we knew personally into photographs with them. these became our cover designs.

now, we're ready to present our design intervention to the world tomorrow.

here are all of the contents, and in the next post, i will share the presentation as we will be giving it.

history of motion graphics&narrative intentions.

i loved the history of motion graphics video, to see those montages of all those motiongraphics throughout the years... of course we began moving design once we started using moving images at all! it makes me proud to think that with those possibilities, people knew that typography and visual elements needed to move, not just to tell stories, but to build ideas and express concepts as well. it's more than just characters saying things. it's all about instinctive brandmarks and constructions that say more than their static forms ever could. it does amuse me, however, how you can see through history when certain technologies or methods or aesthetics came into fashion simply by their explosion into prevalence in a short span of time. certain tricks obviously hit the market and scattered into everyone's work all at once until the next big thing. with the so-called digital revolution, however, and the easy availability of tools to anyone who wants them, it's anybody's game now. which is why motion graphics today are so extremely awesome.

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for my last brief project in narrative, i am going to propose a first-wave plan and then a backup plan if the first one doesn't seem like it will fit the expectations. the first plan goes thusly: over the summer, i was part of anne boyer's experimental poetry workshop, and one of my projects was a collaboration with one of my roommates that documented our house right before we started to move. we made an elaborate heroic-photography stop-motion of every inch of every room, along with soundscapes made from the objects and experiences of each room, and wrote a poem to go along with it. the poem is not integrated. we simply read it aloud after the video had finished playing. i would love to integrate it visually into the video so that it fits, and doesn't require our presence to tell the story. the two voices we used to read it should be replaced with our two sets of handwriting.

(alternately, i sure did love tender buttons and would certainly suffer no ill will for doing another music box tune, if that first option does not fly.)