Section 1: Type and Motion || Assignment 1: Moving Verse
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Choose a poem:
Select either a poem of your own choosing or one from those listed below to use as the content for a motion text interface.

Rainer Maria Rilke
Spanish Dancer
or
Evening

e.e. cummings
but the other

Robert Frost
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

Story board and outline your idea:

Due: Monday, February 2, 2004

1. Write a brief description of your understanding of the chosen poem (1-2 sentences).

2. Create a 3 scene story board of a possible ideas, imagery and animation sequences that might work for this assignment. Work out a possible "look and feel" for this assignment. Select one or more typefaces to use in the project.

3. Be creative -- try out a new idea. Story boards are just initial ideas. No one will "hold" you to them. If you change your idea once you start working on this project, don't worry. This is to get your creative juices flowing.

4. Examples of story boards can be found at these sites:

Story boards
black and white pencil story boards
Animatics and Story boards for tower of terror
Twister Story boards

Create a Flash animation with 3 links:

Due: Monday, February 16, 2004

1. Using Flash create a motion type animation that conveys the meaning of the poem.

2. Within the Animation, create 3 links to 3 new pages.

3. Observe how the meaning of the poem changes when a particular word is isolated.

4. Work carefully with each line and word of type. Make visual and conceptual connections between the words.

5. You can mix images with type in this assignment.

6. Think carefully about which words will have links and why. What do they link to?

7. Final work must be delivered either online as a SWF or shown locally as a quicktime.