1. Thesis Presentation IV – Fall Midterm Review NewMediaArts art 257 :: motion graphic design week 4 :: a

2. NewMediaArts art 257 :: motion graphic design :: week 4 :: a :: in-class example  similar project at CMU:  http://www.designingwithtype.com/ carnegiemellon/ http://www.designingwithtype.com/ carnegiemellon/  excerpt from an old Chinese poem “maxim for the root of mind” by Sung-Joong Kang  http://www.designingwithtype.com/ carnegiemellon/chinese01.html http://www.designingwithtype.com/ carnegiemellon/chinese01.html  excerpt from On the Road by Jim Kenney  http://www.designingwithtype.com/ carnegiemellon/ontheroad01.html http://www.designingwithtype.com/ carnegiemellon/ontheroad01.html  I came to live out loud by Emil Zola and three tech demos:  http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~johnny/kt/ http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~johnny/kt/

3. NewMediaArts art 257 :: motion graphic design :: week 4 :: a :: today’s agenda  flash demo  how to stretch scenes in flash  how to edit/copy multiple frames  sound syncing in more detail  fade in, out, cross-dissolve, fade to black  type: blur type  in-class activity:  work on type animation in class

4. NewMediaArts art 257 :: motion graphic design :: week 4 :: a :: homework  expression through typography in motion  purpose/objective: To solve a visual time-based design problem using only typography in order to communicate a narrative visual message.  assignment: Choose a few sentences from anywhere you like (a line from a book, a quote from a speech, a line from a movie, etc.) or make up your own. Then bring the sentence to life by animating the letters and words using Flash.  format: flash animation - 2 versions @ 30 fps, 320x240, at least 10 seconds long.  flash.swf  quicktime.mov two week assignment due :: 9.20.05

5. NewMediaArts art 257 :: motion graphic design :: week 4 :: a :: post mortem  How smoothly did today’s class run?  What slowed us down?  What did we skip over?  How can we be more efficient in the future?