Archive for November, 2008
Wednesday, November 19th, 2008
Worth a thousand words.
The graffiti begins. It’s worth pointing out that none of the graffiti in this project is real and that the cast and crew of ‘The End is Nigel’ is against vandalism - even in the face of impending apocalypse. Lucy has been doing a fantastic job. There are many to choose from and I will find a place for them all…but, for some reason, this one is my favourite:
In constructing the blogs, I again realise more and more that where I place the graffiti pictures and the all the other pictures we took during the shoot is just as - if not more - important as the text itself. I have become very aware of having dense chunks of text anywhere in the sites. I have taken to designing the layout of the web-pages even down to ‘drawing in’ the blocks of text. If the blog text I’m writing goes out of the proportions in my doodles, I re-write it.
The Rainy Day website is coming along, however. Rather than launch straight into the video now, clever Heather came up with the idea of opening the site with a simple flash animation. So, last weekend, I persuaded my friend Jenni to come and stand around with an umbrella with me and took photos in front of Sheffield’s finest and most modern buildings. Hatching the phrase ‘Whatever your plans are…we’re always right behind you‘ we felt we had the right tone for, not only Rainy Day, but for the whole project. Slightly ominous but still tongue-in-cheek.
