this is a list of what I should have been/but I’m not/this is a list of the things that I should have seen/but I’m not seeing…
-Counting Crows
I mentioned a few posts back– when I included the two The Usual Suspects clips– that I was doing research for another project. The project is to create one of these cool things that Julie showed me (I’ve lost the initial link– it was on my other laptop). Here’s one, from YouTube:
The author of this one calls it Kinetic Typography. I think I like that.
But what IS this?
I plan to see if I can make one (using the Verbal Kent/Keyser Soze story). I did some scouring and someone said “use Adobe After Effects!” so… I’ll be learning new software. If it doesn’t kill me, I’d like to teach students to do this as a scaffold into new media composing.
But what IS it?
That’s been troubling me a little. Not in the “oh no! Life is awful!” way, but in the “well, it’s not…”
These are Remixes, obviously, on some level, as most of the Kinetic Typography on YouTube is set to movie quotes. But is it digital poetry? Is it strictly an exercise in visual rhetoric? Are they movies? Is this a new way of ‘writing’ in the ’pencil to paper’ sense?
What is kinetic typography?
