School
Ahhh, the good old college days. I'm sure you all remember having to do various presentations in your classes. And then there's always the obligatory handout that has to go along with it. Well, I preferred to add a little panache to my handouts. I wanted them to make my fellow classmates sit up and take notice when I made a presentation (as opposed to doodling or falling asleep in the back row, which is what I usually did during their presentations). So, I usually worked extra hard to make the handouts for my presentations snappy and engaging.
The following pieces are samples of designs I've created to supplement various presentations in my undergraduate college courses. Merely click on the thumbnail images to view the complete work.
Colonialism, Racism and Representation
Fall 2001
All of my designs in the "School" section of this web page were developed for my Introduction to Film Theory class. This handout was made to accompany my group's first presentations in this class. The assignment was to give a detailed explanation of one of the essays we had to read in class.
It took me hours of searching for free fonts on the Internet to find the perfect fonts for the header of this document. I wanted to find fonts that seemed to visually mimic the meaning of the words in the title. I think the final effect is pretty nice. You don't have to read the whole handout although you might find it interesting. And FYI, the images for this handout are pretty offensive, but that is of course intentional.
Peter Wollen's Auteur Theory
Fall 2001
This handout was made to accompany my group's second presentation in my Introduction to Film Theory class. The assignment was to apply Peter Wollen's version of the Auteur Theory to a given "auteur." My group decided to do Howard Hawks. Personally, I thought the decision to do Hawks was a little bit of a cop-out because Hawks is Wollen's example in the article. Oh well.
The inspiration for this design came from April Chabries, a film professor at BYU. In an earlier film class, Chabries had shared samples from a document she had created for a grant proposal for one of her films. I remember her telling us that the people on the grant board had been impressed not only with the depth of the document, but with its graphical layout. It had been one of the reasons why they had decided to approve funds for the project. Honestly, her design really was good and so I replicated it in part here. I've come back to this design a few times since this.
My Personal Theory
Fall 2001
This handout was made to supplement a presentation I had to give in my Introduction to Film Theory class. The assignment was to create my own personal film theory and apply it to a sample film clip in a class presentation. By this time in the semester, I was stressed out with the 17.0 credits I was taking and didn't have time to come up with a new design. So, I just reused the same design I'd done for the Auteur Theory Presentation