Notes & Assignments 2/26/09

hi all. great work this week!

please post your 2 most successful posters here on the blog as JPGs.

your assignment this week:

1. watch the film do the right thing, by spike lee. choose a scene that's minimum 5 minutes in length and transcribe it. look for conversation between interesting characters, dramatic tension, comedy, as it will inform your work better.

2. create a 20 page (front & back + 9 spreads) type-only book using the dialogue from that scene. it may be any size, in color or black & white, should not have any imagery, and does not need to have a specially treated cover. the cover should have only 1 piece of information: the name of each character in the scene you chose.


consider the following when beginning this project:
- what are the many different visual systems for representing dialogue and how do they each work? examine plays, interviews, comic books, chat room windows, text messages, etc. for reference.
- using color, typeface, composition, sequence, etc. create a system of your own for representing your characters' & dialogue.
- once you've created the system and made initial designs, think about how playing with and/or interrupting that system can better express the dynamics in the scene.