For this part of the design brief, I decided to experiment with the text based software “It’s alive”. Unfortunately the file I created was too large to upload so I took a couple screen shots of my work.
The stage is given to the user as a blank white canvas, with the possibilities of manipulating text in various ways. You can change your canvas color, which I did, to black and your font properties crating a stimulating visual experience.
There are only a few typographic elements I placed onto the stage, keeping it simple. The phrase “The next text” is the dominating type on the stage, followed by the binary code composed of “01” which border the upper and lower frame of the stage, when interacted with. I experimented with the text behaviors and font faced which the program allows you to alter when you right click on the stage. Ex: right click – typographic- form- font- Garamond.
I decided to keep the color pallet simple as well, keeping with the black, white and red motif. The three words are placed on the stage with various sizes. “The” being the smallest and “Text” the largest, I emphasized the letters “N” in next and “T”’s in text with a bright red and gallant behavior applied to each. Then the mouse is shifted over the “T” it appears as if a rounded magnifying glass is placed over. The “fade to…,explode, move to mouse, move away from mouse, rain, lines and spring behaviors were all used. As for the little red and white dots raining down, the “move to and move away from mouse” were applied to altering colors.
The works was saved as published as a quick time movie. Unfortunately when the movie was saved, it slowed down in many areas, and obviously did not portrait the same effect was the original work.
Overall this software allowed for a great deal of enjoyment was working with creating interactive text.
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