This document outlines a plan for a class on typography and video production. It includes: 1) An icebreaker activity where students share their name and favorite magazine. 2) A discussion about producing informational videos for an organization called ACE, including the need for student testimonials, compiling existing print information, and showing students on campus. 3) A homework assignment to read about typefaces and typography, and bring images representing love and romance to the next class.

2. Today
1) Icebreaker
2) Some video? A plan.
3) Some videos on typography
4) So where do we find cool stuff?
5) Some work time
6) Homework

3. Icebreaker
1) Name
2) What’s your favorite magazine?

4. ACE: Some thoughts…
As I mentioned in my email, I’ve been thinking a bit about
the needs that ACE has for some video media for their
website/to distribute.
I am interested in us producing that video. However, we
need to talk about what it would mean.

5. Question One: Are we
interested?
We need to start at that.
Are we, as a group, interested in doing video
work?

6. Assuming we are…
Assuming we’d like to create video, I visualize us having three
potential video options.
1. They NEED student testimonials. They just flat out have to
have that. I don’t know why they don’t. These wouldn’t be
difficult to produce, but one of our major considerations would
have to be how to design them so they are visually striking and
appealing

7. Two
2. There’s no reason why the
information we’re compiling for the
print media couldn’t be turned into an
informational video. So… that’d be
something to do, too.

8. Three…
3. It would be nice to show off the students
in their classes/around campus (and to
show off campus a bit).

9. If we take it on…
I think this could be an invaluable project,
useful for the folks in ACE and educational for
all of us.
It would require us to jostle the schedule,
though, and shift around some readings. I am
totally willing to do that, but we’d need to all
negotiate a change to the syllabus.

10. Type: some videos to get us
started
I want to start us out today with a few videos to give us a
little bit of a transition into talking about fonts and
typography.

15. Some Font Fun
And here are some fun sites we can tinker
around with just a bit, to show you that type,
like life, can be fun times.

21. How to get nifty fonts
You might notice that most computers– even
the ones here in the super-slick design-minded
labs– don’t have a huge selection of fonts.
This can put you at a disadvantage as a creator.
But not to worry. Fonts are out there.
Let me show you a few cool places to visit.

26. Homework
For Thursday:
Read for class: Golombisky & Hagen chapter 8, “What
Typeface Goes with That” and “Typography 101”
from How to Design Cool Stuff and Chapter 8 in Lynch
and Horton
In-class activity: The visual rhetoric of romance; bring in
images that convey “love” represent “romantic” in honor