Today’s Plan:
- Project Change! / Schedule
- Flyer Information
Project Change!
As I was looking at our schedule this morning, I decided to make a change and flip-flop our next two mini-projects. While I am sure you are growing tired of making flyers, we’ve got one more to make–promotional movie flyers and instagram posts for UNCo’s International Film Series, led by the English Department’s own Yavanna Brownlee. I want us to work on these flyers this week (in-class crit on Friday, final drafts due Monday) and then we will move into InDesign and the menu assignment next week. I want to do this project first to make sure we get the posters to them in time to print and advertise the March 3rd film. So here’s our revised upcoming schedule:
- 4.Friday: Typography, HW: Read WSINYE Chapter on Type (you do not have to read the section on logo design). HW: Adobe InDesign Classroom in a Book, start chapter 4 “Working with Objects” (90 minutes).
- 5.Monday: Intro IFS Assignment. Discuss Typography. Quick InDesign Assignment.
- 5.Wednesday: Work Day. Work on IFS Draft, InDesign Classroom in a Book 5 “Flowing Text”(45 minutes) and/or 6 “Editing Text” (45 minutes).
- 5.Friday: IFS Crit
- 6.Monday: IFS Final. Complete IDCiaB 5 and 6.
- 6.Wednesday: Introduce Menu Assignment WSINYE Color. HW: InDesign Classroom in a Book 7 “Typography” (60 minutes).
- 6.Friday: Menu Work day. HW: WSINYE Mini-Art School
- 7.Monday: Menu Work day
- 7.Wednesday: Menu draft. Menu reflection assignment.
- 7.Friday: Menu Final. Reward: a glorious weekend without homework. Unless you didn’t complete the reflection assignment.
IFS Flyer Information
Here’s the information Tori Beaty supplied me back in early January. I emailed today to get confirmations on need/times/places:
They Called Me King Tiger as part of the LatinX Film Festival in partnership with the Caesar Chavez Center: March 3rd 2023
– ***This one is a maybe, it is part of a film festival and may have flyers being made for it already, I will let you know if we need it as soon as I know. It will be in Lindou Auditorium – Time isn’t set in stone yet but probably somewhere around 4 or 4:30, I’ll get those details to you if we need the flyer.
The Breadwinner: March 23, 2023 @ 7 PM in Lindou Auditorium (For Women’s History Month)
Cyrano (Peter Dinklage version): April 6th, 2023 @ 7 PM in Lindou Auditorium
Nausicaa – For the week of Earth Day: April 20th, 2023 in Lindou Auditorium @ 7 PM
The Last Shop on Main Street in partnership with the Greeley Holocaust Observance: April 27th, 2023 @ 6 PM in Lindou Auditorium.
We are still in the process of scheduling Lindou auditorium, so the date and venue for a few of these may change, but I will let you know of any changes ASAP. These should be finalized within the next couple of weeks. If you have any questions, I would be more than happy to assist you.
We appreciate you.
Deliverables:
- One standard 8.5 x 11 design, preferably in InDesign (but Photoshop is acceptable)
- You are free to design this with or without a bleed; however, if you do utilize a full-page bleed design, make sure it is no-bleed friendly (nothing essential sitting near a 1.2 inch of the edge)
- Your flyer design should incorporate a description of the film. I want you to work with a block of body text and to find a place for it in your design
- Your image can include as much or as little of the original movie design as possible
- Your image needs to include UNC English and IFS logos
- One square design for social media
I imagine we will be ripping and scrubbing some images for these projects, so I have created a folder to share .png assets.
I have also created a table for sign-ups.
While I expect collaboration on this project, I also want everyone to create their own design. Everyone, no matter your current proficiency level, will benefit from getting more practice with our technological tools and applying our design concepts.
