Silent movie; workshop one.

We were each given two words which we had to go away and research in time for this workshop.
My words were float and spin. I had to find for each of these words;
20 relating words.
20 definitions. 
20 objects. 
20 situations that relate. 
20 appropriate typefaces - small, medium and large versions of each typeface. 

During the lunch break before this workshop began we were asked to use the fonts we had collected, choosing one letter, to represent each of the words. This task was set to get us thinking about how you could use a font to visually represent a word and got is in the right frame of mind for what was to follow. I actually found this task quite difficult because i'd start drawing an idea and then realise it was quite similar to one i'd previously done. We really had think outside the box and try and be a little less obvious with this task, the fact we had different scales of each font made it easier because you could come up with more interesting ideas. 

With the storyboards on the left, we had to place the letter we were using in different frames each time instead of just the beginning, this was to get us thinking about the motion path something would take to get to the point where we had placed this letter. This actually worked quite successfully because although the ideas are quite similar and simple, due to the positioning of the letterform being different each time, each sequence has a uniqueness to it. 

With the storyboards on the right and also these ones above we were given certain characteristics to focus on such as the letterform being bold, scale and particular anchor points. We were also asked to think about how the sequence begins each time, does it always have to begin with the letterform or can it begin with a blank screen? Although this task seemed difficult at times because you didn't want to repete a sequence you'd already created, it was quite good because being told to follow certain characteristics on each sequence helped the ideas vary so we were begining to get a collection of different ideas we could develop and work with. The fact we were timed on each section of this workshop everytime we were set a task really helped myself a lot because i'd spend too much time trying to make the ideas really creative when at this stage they just needed to be quick and simple so they could later be developed.