Week 15 - Journal Entry 1 - Kinetic Type Video Update & Monologue Book, Concept, and Conceptual Research

I have added a colophon to my kinetic type video, and tweaked a few areas of the video where I received feedback for last class. One major area is where the triangles in my video overlap, which I will be posting later once it is fully complete. I plan to upload it to youtube first, so that I can embed it to different places such as my online portfolio and here.

I think I will add a short intro, similar to the cover and title pages from my monologue. I decided for most of my kinetic type video to remain true to the original layout of the book, because redesigning it all not only would have taken a very long time, but I felt that the way it was laid out originally already showed visual hierarchy and followed the rules of typography, form, and composition fairly well.

The black and white color scheme, as shown on the second page, was Professor Mata's idea. I think it works well with the book's design and the character development of Barney, because it helps to divide the one spread into two where Barney is shown stating who he is and who he isn't. The black and white is symbolic of the dynamic shift in Barney's personality. Below is the slide of what I am talking about.

Below are my sketches for my monologue. I apologize for not having posted them earlier on in the process.

Above are the original sketches that I drew for my monologue book. There are a couple of marks that Professor Mata made to provide insight and feedback that I later incorporated into my book.

Above are pages that I decided to revise to try to create a better design. I didn't realize how spreads worked, so on my original set, I treated some of the sides of the spreads individually from each other. By revising it, I was able to have the text go across the entire spread in some instances.

After I started working on my slides, I realized that two of them in particular needed to be reworked, because how I originally had them laid out was altered as I worked through the project, so the number of pages and spreads that I had did not line up properly. I also had some help on the one slide from my friend Jess Webster who is also a graphic design student right now.

The one that she helped me with is the first of the two below.

Above are the two slides that resulted from the previous sketches.

The colophon isn't shown here, because I added that last and didn't create any sketches for it.

Below is a link to the also the entire script of the monologue, which I researched to make sure that I had heard everything correctly. The script can be found towards the bottom of the page.

http://how-i-met-your-mother.wikia.com/wiki/Splitsville

I did not do much other research in terms of the meaning behind the script, because I felt that I had enough prior knowledge from watching to the show to understand the emotion and ideology behind it.