Flash Animations

First Test:

Getting use to using flash and making a short general animation to what I want to show.

Close Final

Including sound to animation and I feel that by adding in a glow filter it communicates my word better to its audience.

Final Animation:

This is my complete animation of my One Word Film. This final animation has the same basic concept from my brainstorm storyboard, but is different to my storyboard as I had decided to include a glow filter as seen in my close final. I really believe that the sound makes my animation effective. However it also brings across the essence of my word without sound just as well. The ending that I had decided on this final animation I believe brings the whole animation together making it very effective.

One Word Film - Final Storyboards

Final 3 Storyboards:

I developed these 3 storyboards from 3 of my brainstorm ideas.

Snake:

I chose to use snake as 1 of my final words as i really liked the idea of using a classic old game and creating something new from it. I used the letter of my word to create the snake itself and as the animation continues the letters are collected along the way and attaches to the tail of the snake to create the word. I also thought that this word holds a lot of room for development, especially with the font.

Glue:

I really liked the idea of making having the words stretching and stick together so I decided to use the word Glue as 1 of my final storyboard ideas. There is also area for me to play around with this word further through developing the fonts and the directions that the letters enter in the stage.

Light:

The word Light provided me with room to explore different ways to express the essence of the word. I liked the idea of using negative space to show the word, as this is more effective. I chose to do this word for my final animation because I know that if I communicate the word Light across right the animation will be very effective.

One Word Film - Storyboards

Brainstorm Mini Storyboards

I brainstormed 8 mini storyboards on words that I word could possibly use for my final.

Kerning

Original Letters Rearranged:

In the first image we worked with san-serif and serif fonts to test out how different kerning spacings effects the different fonts. Starting out with very small kerning spacing between the letters at the top of the page and ending with bigger kerning spaces at the bottom of the page. The serif font looks best with medium kerning spaces, as it is the easiest to read. The san-serif font looks most effective with small kerning spaces, as it draws your eye in more and this makes it easier to read rather than having bigger gaps between the letters where nothing draws your attention to the next letter and so on.

Hatching in Kerning Spaces:

Using tracing paper we hatched in the gaps between the letters to show the how kerning influences the way we perceive and read a word. The shape and width of a letter influences how far away the letters are from each other to create even kerning spaces, so that the word is easier to read.