Project #3: The Next Level

The final project in this course is a project of your own proposal. However, your project should take the concepts and skills developed in this course to the next level as you add complexity and take risks that put you outside your creative comfort zone.

In doing so, the project should:

• Employ strong graphic and motion design skills
• Make use of After Effects (and/or other appropriate software)
• Explore the boundaries of computer imagemaking and motion graphics
• Demonstrate strong integration of the principles and approaches explored over the course of the semester

Therefore, this project should exceed your comfort zone and take risks. While you should strive to create portfolio-quality work, the focus for this project is on process and conceptual integrity.

Accordingly, I reserve the right to impose boundaries and constraints on your project if it appears too safe or unchallenging!

Your project, then, may expand on an exercise or project explored earlier in the course (kinetic typography, title sequence, DVD menu, etc.) or come from a fresh idea. However, it must expand in a significant way on work done in the class so far – in length, in complexity, in creative innovation.

This project will be turned in as a video file (Quicktime preferred), delivery to be determined.

Due dates and requirements:

Tuesday, November 24th:  Proposal due

Turn in a full page, detailed proposal of your project, including visual and audio elements. What will we see and hear? What software will you implement? How does it expand on concepts in the class? How does it take your own work to the next level? How will you create this project? Be specific.

Tuesday, December 1st: Style board due

Turn in a style board that represents the visual style and impact of your project.

Thursday, December 10th: In-class rough critiques

Thursday, December 17th at 8am: PROJECT DUE WITH SELF-CRITIQUE

1. What is the most effective aspect of your project? Why?
2. In what area(s) could it be stronger?  Why?
3. Did you successfully achieve the goal of taking your work to the next level? Why or why not?
4. How does this project represent a culmination of the graphic and motion design skills you developed in the class?
5. What was the main thing you learned in creating this project?

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