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