Project 2 – Stigma

Tell Me a Story: Divorce

Exercise Brief (pdf) Rationale Photographs Keywords from Exercise 1 Rapid Sketches Storyboard This exercise is the application of our knowledge/understanding of what a good narrative is. Limited to 3-5 images, and the use of the human figure as our subject, we were asked to tell a word-less story—while using keywords from Exercise 1 as stimuli [...]

Looks Like Good

“Good” for me in motion design means (a) it has to be visually appealing, and (b) it has to “feel right”—not necessarily in the sense that every motion piece needs to make you cry to be considered good—but in terms of pacing, the appropriateness of the approach/solution with the content, and sometimes also execution. What [...]

Essence Homework

As in my last entry, I’ve started bookmarking a couple of compositions that I found inspiring. The last two on the list stood out for me: one is called “Debbie,” the other is from a Youtube video entitled “Shadowed”—music by Philip Glass, but unfortunately the title of the piece is unknown. I went to SMIL (York’s [...]

Expectations, Essence

Expectations I had my first class of Type in Motion today, and it’s definitely different from what I expected it to be (which could be both good and bad). Good, as in the work I may producing would be different from the previous years and is more experimental / concept- and idea-driven; bad, as in [...]