Friday, September 6, 2013

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