Assignment #5

I finally finished my people font! This took a lot longer to edit than I originally thought, but I feel pretty happy to finally stitch it together. There's a thousand and two things I still want to do to it, and I see it as a potential graphic design portfolio piece, so I'm definitely going to do so. Jeremy mentioned in the group critique that the letters look a little like alphabits, and Sarah mentioned adding veins or something else could help combat this. I still want to add these in, but I just plain ran out of time. I decided to call the type 'body language', and I put the name in the negative space. It was a really interesting process putting these together. It was really time consuming at first, but once I did like 8 or 9, cruise control kind of just took over. The backgrounds are not all the same color, which bothered me at first, but now I feel as if it gives the piece more character.

I don't want anyone to watch this video before class, because I want it to be a surprise. It's a mirror critique to critique our critique. I really wanted to shoot it in our classroom, but sadly there was a class when I scheduled the shoot. I guess my two biggest challenges were getting all the actors on the same page, then managing to get the scene in one take. I wanted it to be seemless because excessive editing would make it feel too cinematic or staged. This way, I can manage to capture the slight awkwardness/candidness in a crit. I guess I don't have too much else to say, and the success of the video really depends on how the crowd interacts with it. I guess we'll find out tomorrow.

Edit: Okay, boo. This video won't load, sorry! Everyone will have to wait until 8 am.