Visual Essay
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Visual Essay ⋆
Produced at
Ringling College of Art and Design
Category
Design
Software
Adobe Illustrator, After Effects
Students will interpret and translate an existing narrative into an emotionally compelling visual essay, creating a cohesive design sequence that reinforces the viewer’s understanding of the content.
Objectives
Students will select ONE audio narrative and then craft a meaningful visual story in support of the narrative. Preliminary concepts, storyboards, and boardomatic will provide the groundwork for the development of a cohesive 9-frame design board.
Project Overview
Audio
Beauty of a Flower is based on an excerpt from a 1981 interview on The Pleasure of Finding Things Out.
Voice: Richard Feynman
Narratives
Style Frames
Title: Beauty of a Flower
V.O: I have a friend who’s an artist and has sometimes taken a view which I don’t agree with very well.
V.O: He’ll hold up a flower and say “look how beautiful it is,” and I’ll agree. Then he says “I as an artist can see how beautiful this is"
V.O: but you as a scientist take this all apart and it becomes a dull thing,” and I think that he’s kind of nutty.
V.O: At the same time, I see much more about the flower than he sees. I could imagine the cells in there, the complicated actions inside, which also have a beauty.
V.O: The fact that the colors in the flower evolved in order to attract insects to pollinate it is interesting - it means that insects can see the color.
V.O: It adds a question - does this aesthetic sense also exist in the lower forms... why is it aesthetic
V.O: all kinds of interesting questions which the science knowledge only adds to the excitement and mystery and the awe of a flower. It only adds. I don’t understand how it subtracts”.
Credit.
Title: Beauty of a Flower
V.O: I have a friend who’s an artist and has sometimes taken a view which I don’t agree with very well.
V.O: He’ll hold up a flower and say “look how beautiful it is,” and I’ll agree. Then he says “I as an artist can see how beautiful this is"
V.O: but you as a scientist take this all apart and it becomes a dull thing,” and I think that he’s kind of nutty.
V.O: At the same time, I see much more about the flower than he sees. I could imagine the cells in there, the complicated actions inside, which also have a beauty.
V.O: The fact that the colors in the flower evolved in order to attract insects to pollinate it is interesting - it means that insects can see the color.
V.O: It adds a question - does this aesthetic sense also exist in the lower forms... why is it aesthetic
V.O: all kinds of interesting questions which the science knowledge only adds to the excitement and mystery and the awe of a flower. It only adds. I don’t understand how it subtracts”.
Credit.