Project One

Mapping a Daily Routine
Find a small routine that occurs in your day. Like brushing you teeth or walking to your favorite coffee shop. Or doing a task such as cooking a dinner. MAP your routine with a narrative. Within your narrative record time, an action, length of time an action, how you are feeling, and any other personal perspective you would like to record. Write a lot and organize it later. These notations will all become possible systems that we will analysis. Or start with a structure as a concept and write with that in mind. 

Now record the same routine the next day and make photographic images of your routine. Be careful and thoughtful about making your images. Think about micro verses macro, perspective and framing. 

How do the images relate to the written narrative? 

Is there a contrast? 

Be careful about illustrating a story- it can lead to stereotypical images.

What are stereotypes and how can we be more creative with storytelling?

What visual strategies can be used to tell a point of view and story?

We will then analysis both types of mapping: narrative writting and the visual narrative. Refine and edit. We will be combining the mapping of your personal routine narrative and images.

Time and Pacing = Page Layout and Design
We will make a layout that is a visual mapping of time. Make a simple visual system that communicates the passage of time or time spent doing something in your routine. Think about scale and repetition as you two visual strategies for commicating time. Please think about the pace of which someone might turn a page or haw many they turn in the overall story.

Type selection
Please use the Font sheet for type use for this project. Select one font to use. A second font can be used only is a projects’ concept depends on it. Create a simple visual system for the type and image relationship. Remember you are a storyteller. What is the relationship of the images as a voice and the text as a voice?

Project specifications:
Hand-made publication- Perfect Bound w/ cover
2 Color: black and one spot color
Images bk/w, text color
spreads: 8.5x11 folded
pages: minimum of 16, defined by project
Font: select one font from a given list

In-Design skills:
Project/Document Set-up
Master pages
Image color manipulation and placement
Text tool and font selection
color theory: CMYK verses RGB
color calibration and correction
PMS color matching system
spot color + four color
image links