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Project 2
 Basics:
Using Photoshop and Dreamweaver, take the content of an "old
media" text and create a series of five to fifteen screens that realize
the original's effects by "visualizing" its verbal elements
(letters, words, passages) using font, size, color, placement, backgrounds,
layering, etc. You can also use images in the background, or mingled with
the words.
Examples: Take a look at a few examples of visual/verbal
interpretations from previous classes:
Where to Start: The original text that you choose to
work with can be either your own work or someone else's, but it should
be an aesthetic or "literary" text, rather than something analytical
or journalistic. Choose a film, novel, short story, television series,
poem, etc.
An alternative possibility: take a non-aesthetic text
and make it aesthetic: take a news report of the Columbia disaster and
make it a kind of verbal/visual poem in the tradition of "found poetry.")
The main points of this assignment are
- to recreate and/or interpret the meaning and effect of the
original text in five to fifteen screens that mingle visual and verbal
discourses. Assume that your reader/viewer does not know the
original.
- to find a set of design elements (font, color, placement, negative
space, layering) to "visualize" the language, to make their
appearance on the screen matter to the effect, and to unify your whole
work
- to achieve the meaning and flavor of the original by reorganizing
it, rather than following the original's plot structures
- to combine verbal grammar and visual design into a new hybrid "voice"
that is consistent
- to create a hypertext (linear, looped, etc.) that still achieves its
effects primarily with verbal, rather than producing an album of pictures
with some captions
- to unify the look and feel of the various pages with consisitent choices
of font, color, background, layout, etc.
- to use the transitions from screen to screen for effect
- to modify images that you've taken from other sources so that they
are fully integrated into your own work, and don't appear to be scraps
taken from movie posters, advertisements,
- to employ Photoshop and Dreamweaver effectively together to create
these pages
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