Class:
GD499, Kinetic Typography

Project title:
Animate a Conversation

Project Description:
Animate a conversation— via kinetic typography— between two different persons. The conversation can be humorous, dry, dialogue from a movie, or between to important figures.

The audio can be extracted from YouTube. The intent of this early-quarter assignment is for students to acclimate themselves to the Adobe After Effects interface and tools. Additionally, animating an existing conversation requires students to consider pace, animation, and on-screen composition for impact.

Students:
Lani O’Neill


Class:
GD499, Kinetic Typography

Project title:
Television bumper

Project Description:
Design a logo for a fictitious television station, CPB Corvallis Public Broadcast (with the content modeled after PBS) and build an 8-12 second television bumper for that station.

At the heart of this assignment are two considerations: 1) Students have to design an identity, logo, and overall look-and-feel that is modeled after PBS; this requires careful consideration of the video and audio; and 2) Animating to the logo to complement the look-and-feel of the video.

Students:
Pauline Le


Class:
GD499, Kinetic Typography

Project title:
Title-sequence

Project Description:
Re-design a logo for a reality TV program (e.g. The Great British Bake Off) and produce a 22-30 second title-card or -sequence opening for that show. Use a different audio or music to accompany your opening. The title-card is new, different, and graphic-heavy. Students may use up to 2-3 snippets of the show, but the snippets should not be the main visual component to provide context (i.e. cold opening).

Students:
Cameron Paterson


Class:
GD499, Kinetic Typography

Project title:
Animated information graphic

Project Description:
For this design exercise, students were tasked with making a statement about a social topic of their choosing. Students researched their topic and collected data to strengthen their argument. Students then proceeded to design and produce a 1-minute animated information graphic for social media.

Students:
Angel McNabb Lyons