Final Material to Hand In

All students need to hand in their final products, whether printed or digital, as well as the process book/binder. The process binder shall include:

1. 150-200 word project definition
2. documentation; four items related to text- or visual-research, bibliographic content; argument for why you did what you did
3. process materials w/visuals; sketches, roughs, development, etc.
4. visual comparison; items that are already out there in the "real" that are like yours, could be competition, inspiration, etc.

Material from your Informal Presentations can be pulled and used for some of the above content.

The final Product shall be supplied as a printed thing if that is its final form, as well as a PDF of your final "print-ready" artwork. Save PDF as:

• Press Ready PDF in RGB
• if it's a book, save as spreads.

 See the post below for all deadlines.

Final Hand-in Options

Students must alert the instructor of which of the following hand-in methods they will use for the final works, due for Fall 2013.

Option A: Hand in the final work Fri. Nov. 22 at 10am
Students who do so will deliver their final printed and digital project, as well as the complete process binder, at our Fri. Nov. 22 class at 10 a.m. Students choosing this option must hand in a PDF soft proof to Turnstile 2 on or before 10 a.m. on Fri. Nov. 15.

Option B: Hand in the final work on Dec. 6 at 3pm
Students who do so will deliver their final printed and digital project, as well as the complete process binder, on or before Fri. Dec. 6 at 3pm. Students choosing this option must hand in a PDF soft proof to Turnstile 2 on or before 10 a.m. on Fri. Nov. 22.

Heroes Informal Presentation II - Oct. 18

Students shall give informal presentations of their work in progress on Friday, Oct. 18th. You may prepare and present a PDF or PowerPoint; or use another vehicle such as Flickr, SlideRocket, Prezi, or Tumblr.

Whichever medium you use, you should cover the following:

1. revised and up to date timeline
2. any changes in your direction
3. progress, visuals, content development (illustration and/or design made)
4. distribution of work among your team (if applicable)

Worth 100 points. See the prior rubric for Presentation I, which will be applied here as well.

Weekly Report: Sept. 27

Students shall give a report of their progress in class, Friday, Sept. 27. Be sure to include:

1. a schedule, from now until the end of the term that details what you will be doing; be sure to include a mid-point design at Oct. 18-20 and a final design product at Nov. 22nd;
2. the final product (or products) that you intend to make;
3. the cost for any materials that will go into making this;
4. visuals of "something out there already" that will compare to what you'll make;
5. if you are on a team, it should also detail what each person shall be doing;
6. a rundown of the items that you will need to research;
7. no less than 5, no more than 10 books (either printed or digital) that you will use as your resources, websites/blogs cannot be on this list.

Due Fri. Sept. 13: Pitch

Students delivered team-based project pitches on Aug. 30. And on Sept. 13, each student will craft their own pitch given the superhero topic. The Sept. 13 pitches are completely separate from the ideas presented on Aug. 30; so don't recycle your Aug. 30 ideas, and don't retool them in any way. Come Sept. 13 with something totally different.

You will present the following information in a 2-3 minute time span:

1. what your project shall explore about superheroes
2. how it will come together visually
3. what medium (or media) you'll use
4. what research you'll need to conduct; not visual research, but content, data, narrative, and substantive goods beneath your visual's surface(s)
5. your big idea, also known as, "so what"
6. be brief, be succinct, sell your idea, have merit
7. remember, you're in visual communication, so whatever you make, plan to make, want to make, or will make, should be visual

Each student shall present their project pitch in the following format:

• no less than 2 and no more than 3 "slides" formatted to fit the Dell smart podium computer
• you can have multiple images on 1 slide; remember, you can "lay things out" in a composition
• formatted slides as PDFs, ideally 10-inches wide by 8-inches high; widescreen is fine too at 16-inches wide by 9-inches high
• PDF should be "packaged" together as a book, 1 document with all of your pages
• 72 dpi is fine, no need for hi-res or anything above 72 dpi
• RGB is fine
• also print out your 2-3 visuals for the instructor
• IF you'd like to present a movie, you may do so, provided that it can run on the Dell smart podium computer; movies should be between 2-3 minutes

Worth 20 points
Rubric: 10% craft; 20% appropriate delivery of information in items 1-7 above; 30% slide composition; 20% presentation/professionalism; 20% format

Fri. Aug. 30

Students will brainstorm in class, Fri. Aug. 30 from 10-11:50 a.m. in small groups. Bring something to write with to take notes. Neither laptops nor textbooks shall be necessary.

Day 1

Friday, August 23
Review course material: syllabus, website, calendar