Virginia Film Festival and Week 11

Virginia Film Festival was an amazing experience. The festival was incredibly accommodating and offered a interesting selections of films. From the perspective of Art Director, there were a lot of graphic and animation designs to take in. For one thing, they animated all of their sponsor slides. To me, this seems like a smart idea as it makes the slides more interesting to look at. It also shows another level of professionalism, so V6 will have animated slides. As far as their program went, the used magazine paper for the program's construction. I found this to be relatively flimsy and a bit obnoxious due to it's huge size. Also, the schedule was located in the middle of the program, rather the front or back. I would recommend a back-page location for the schedule for easy access as well as keeping it on the pass like years previous. The festival logo features a flock of geese, often shown flying in a "v" formation. These birds were placed all throughout the festival, via posters, logo projections, and even balloons. I like the idea of integrating the logo in interesting ways and am interested in designing a projection screen that would outline the logo or Cosmo.

As for the Art Department's status, this week Grace and I worked on securing Tyler's animation schedule. We now have it that the animations are shown Tuesday, edited Wednesday, submitted to Aaron and ACE Thursday, and given to Jack for social media on Friday. We will still have to make sure that Tyler is keeping to this schedule. Devin and I worked on making the logo more graphic using the information we learned from Andre in our design meeting. Devin fine-tuned putting a nice gradient onto the logo to give it dimension and to help it feel more vibrant. We also went with an orbish star design, despite originally thinking of making the stars in the 1950s style. The orb stars still had the old-school space feel and looked more cohesive with the original design. I am also continuing to work on the website. After looking at the offline version of the site, I have a better idea of what else needs to be added to the site.  I am also working with Devin at editing the party pictures so that they can be uploaded to the website as well as Facebook. There are a lot of photos to go through, so it is proving to be a process. Next semester, we will integrate the photo editing better into the Art Schedule so that it will be accomplished in a more timely manner.