I’ve also been working on a group project to produce a video about a type rule for a couple of weeks now. My group picked ‘Avoid overusing capital letters’ from the hat and have been working on a nightmare style video. We had planned on doing a Neutraface style video but after we discovered writing lyrics is not our strongest of talents, we opted for a more story based idea.
It’s the wall of horrors – Capital letter city! It took me 3 hours to cut out all the capital letters from wallpaper samples (thanks B&Q) but it was definitely worth it!
Little E for Little Emma
Lucy demonstrates one of the reasons not to overuse capital letters: they’re shouty!
Filming on our glamourous set…. in the girls toilets
Amber in hair and make up
The dream team; Amber, Emma, Lucy and myself 🙂
… and after all that fun/hard work Amber worked her magic and edited 8 minutes of footage down to just over 1 minute. So, here it is…
[youtube:http://youtu.be/KjibQye-Qxo]What do you think? Did it make you laugh? It was good fun making it, even though it was a bit cringey watching it back when we presented it to the class! I love a bit of Crystal Castles (I find it really good to work to) and it fitted perfectly with the trippy-ness of our video.
And remember kids: large blocks of text set in capital letters is uncomfortable to read and capital letters in general are loud, shouty and intimidating.
3 comments
Little E
01/12/2011 at 12:33 am
And remember kids! … we really should have used that line in the film 😉
I’m proud of our little project 🙂
Storm Rider
30/11/2011 at 11:39 pm
haha.. you’ll really did get that across! I won’t use CAPS without a reason..thanks for the lesson 🙂
lestaret
01/12/2011 at 1:04 am
Ha! Remember that golden rules have brown undersides! Do you recall that fluctuating addition to all golden rules? (AVOID USING ALL CAPS) UNLESS IT LOOKS REALLY GOOD!