[Slim] Project 3 Storyboarding process

Man, I'm lagging behind on this one pretty bad. This past week was rather horrid. I've gots to make up!!! :)

Alright, so I'm posting some action shots of the process.

I had first thought of defining "information", then "architecture", but it didn't seem wholly necessary for the purpose, so I nixed the first bit. It also helps me keep this around a minute long, too.






I got stuck trying to come up with a simple example for information design (a complex one would be picking something like designing a subway map, then saying the principles behind subway map translates to any sort of densely populated network of objects, but that was a bit too deep for this purpose)

So I brainstormed a bit by randomly spewing thoughts that came to my mind on post-it notes on the wall, and doing quick affinity diagramming to find what the hell it is that my brain is trying to look for.






It turned out that a "todo list" could be a simple enough example. So I went on with the storyboarding.

Adobe text effect presets

Here

In case you want to preview what all the text effect presets in After Effects are. There are lots (and lots and lots).

Color links mentioned in class

In case anyone missed them:

Colour lovers: http://www.colourlovers.com/

Kuler: http://kuler.adobe.com/

Upgrading to OS X 10.5 Leopard?

Hey gang, just an FYI for you Mac users (all of you??):

Since we're getting into After Effects in class, I would avoid upgrading to apple's newest version of OS X, 10.5 aka Leopard, at the moment.

You can peruse Adobe's site and download a handy and infuriating chart from the home page, but here's the skinny: After Effects CS3 is going to have problems in 10.5 and an update to address those problems isn't coming until early December. Any earlier versions of After Effects (and anything CS2) will "likely encounter errors for which there is no resolution" in 10.5. How's that for technical support?

The other biggies in CS3 (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Dreamweaver, Flash, Fireworks) work fine in 10.5.

So... hold off on the update until you're absolutely done with your movie.

slim, this reminded me of your process...

Rapid Problem Solving with Post-It Notes:

http://www.amazon.com/Rapid-Problem-Solving-Post-Notes/dp/1555611427/ref=pd_bxgy_b_text_b/002-8075292-3554428

Some more resources

Raw Materials

Creative Commons Mixter ( http://ccmixter.org/ )
Royalty-free samples and music

Acid Planet ( http://acidplanet.com )
Artists hold remix contests here, so it's chock full of professional samples. They can be used for the contest, but beyond that licensing may become an issue.

Video References

A Vision of Students Today
A nicely done video from an anthropology professor that does a good job of communicating his thoughts on education.

Stranger Than Fiction
A movie with Will Farrell that has such a nice layer of information graphic design.

Common Craft
A company that does informational videos using paper craft

Some resources

Imaginary Forces
The group making a lot of the clips Stacie showed.

SnapZ
The software to grab video and audio.

Web Typography
A practical guide to web typography.

Title Sequences
A cool site I found last year that has a bunch of interesting movie title sequences.

Typography in music videos
More vids, some good, some not so much.

Pulp fiction typography
Classic, in a similar style to those above.

Poetic Text
Bare text + music

Free sound project
Lots of sounds under creative commons that I've used previously.