Project Assignment
Remember, the basic standard of work I am looking for is, “Would somebody pay money for my work?”   If you don’t want to keep it, why are you handing it to me to look at?  Neither one of us has time to mess around with low-quality stuff.  “Life is too short to drink bad coffee.”

Due Date:  8 November 2007

Pick one:

1.  Solo project:  Minimum Three Bumper Stickers –
full-sized – on a single poster-sized board.  Three is the minimum number of bumper stickers; done very well, three stickers will earn a grade of 70% for minimum effort.  To be considered as a complete work, five or more will be necessary.  Consideration must be given to the nature of bumper stickers, their size, the number of colors in the typical sticker (two, sometimes three), typestyle and font, and the minimum amount of illustration.  These bumper tickers should clearly evoke the spirit of the story we have read or seen in class.  There must be at least one sticker from “the other story.”

2.  Solo project:  Illustrated Story Board -
minimum nine panels on poster-sized board, with title block.  This story board should be in the style of the Sunday comic strips in size of blocks, quality of illustration, clarity, conversation bubbles, etc.  The story board should illustrate a scene from the book or play or go more deeply into an existing scene.  The entire storyboard should be from either the play or the book/video.

3.  Solo project:  Edibles –
this must be something the entire class can share; it must include the recipe; it must include page numbers from the book or readily-identifiable visual cues from the video (which can be cross-referenced back to the book).  If you are “simply” baking a cake or making cookies, it must be screamingly obvious how your product connects to the book.  “They ate cake in the movie” is not a sufficient connection.  A sheet cake must have a clear graphic connection to the story, such as
a.  being baked or assembled in the shape of a mockingbird, for instance,
b.  having a clearly identifiable mockingbird painted, glazed, on the top
c.  having a scene from the video/book iced atop the cake
d.  having a clear visual reference to the play iced on the cake
e.  the only clear recipe references from “Our Town” are French toast from
breakfast, bacon, coffee, milk, strawberry phosphates, green beans, and
chickens.  More can be extrapolated from the Stage Managers inventory
of the ladies’ gardens, but you need to be careful with assumptions. 

4.  Team (maximum three members) project:  Radio or Television Broadcast –
maximum five and a half minutes; minimum four and a half minutes.
Include two (necessarily brief) interviews of major characters from the book or play asking them what they expect to happen.  Remember: the characters do not know what will happen as the play/story progresses (except when Emily returns after her death).  Include period appropriate music fading out at the beginning and fading in at the end.  Remember this is rural America, northern and southern, the play being set at the turn of the century and the book/video being set in the 1930s.  A minimum of two advertisements for local merchants are not high-pressure or loud; if you are quoting prices, double check the amounts of money involved . . . you might to so far as to divide today’s prices by 100.  (Mrs. Gibbs expected to go to Paris by ship for $350.00.)  You must include a radio station call sign; these were/are three- and four-letter groups, beginning with “K” or “W” identifying the station by geographic area/ownership.  It would increase the value of your production if you were to write out at least an outline script of what you are going to ask and reply.  Depending on ad-lib responses will mar your performance.


The quality performance you really need/want to turn in is of a level that National Public
Radio will present in its little one- and two-minute sound bites like “Earth and Sky”
http://www.earthsky.org/ .

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