Kinetic Typography Assignment
TGJ20P
Title: Skyscraper
Medium: Flash 2.0 and illustrator CS4
The song I chose was
Skyscraper by Demi Lovato. She previously went through an eating disorder and
she got a lot of criticism about here weight. She came out with many songs
talking about how she won’t let people judge her because of her weight. The
idea behind the song I chose is that she is strong like a skyscraper and she
isn’t going to let people bring her down. She is happy with who she is. Although I am now sick and tired of hearing
this song I like to relate to it because as a kid I found it very hard to fit in
but now I don’t let to let people tear me down because of who I am and what I
look like. The whole concept of my design was to have the lyrics of the song build
up into a skyscraper and I think my final product came out very well.
The thing I like most about
my final product is how all the words come together to create the skyscraper
and although my vision of how the animation didn’t come out exactly as I
planned I still think the shape of a skyscraper is clearly visible and easy to
identify. If I could change one thing though it would be to have the animation
zoomed in at the beginning and then have the final product be revealed at the
end for anticipation. I should have asked for help when I first started because
I was a little unsure with how to create the effect but this is my first time
using this program so I still think I did very well.
As I wrote before my overall
concept was to have it build into a skyscraper, but I didn’t just want to have
the words show up. I made the words come in at different directions and
different speeds depending on what the word(s) was. For one line “like I’m made
of” instead of having the same line reappear I had the one line change color to
represent the repeated line. I was very happy with this effect. I hoped to make
the overall building of the skyscraper more appealing and not feel like it was
being dragged on.
I am not very tech inclined
so I found using this program difficult at the beginning. What I found most
challenging was getting the words to all fit together in the entire skyscraper
because I spent about one full class just rearranging the words to create the
building so it could be identified as a skyscraper and knowing where and how
the words would come in. When I faced these challenges I usually asked for help
from another student or my teacher and although the challenges may not have
been that difficult to most, for me I felt very satisfied when the whole
process was over even though it looked relatively simple. When I figured out
how to get the text to fade in/fade out from a helpful tutorial, I was
satisfied and was able to recreate the effect again without the tutorial. You
can look for the link I posted on the blog.
