📝Parsons Week 10b – Elastic Collections Continue, Sophomore Work Collection, Documenting Work

Announcements – Sophomore Work Collection

What is the sophomore work collection?

The collection is to empower students across the sophomore year with a general understanding of their performance before they move into their junior year. This allows faculty to help students identify their strengths and weaknesses.

Each student will submit an edit of their strongest projects completed in Sophomore core classes to a faculty committee. The faculty will send individualized feedback to each student.

The work collection is due on 05/15/2021

You will receive an email with a link to the Google Form submission.

You will submit three projects:

A. 3 images of a print project from either Core 1 Type or Core 2 Type

Images should be at least 1500px by 2100px; JPG

B. 1 screen recording of a digital project from either Core 1 Interaction or Core 2 Interaction

Recording should be 30sec or less showing a user interacting with the project; MOV/MP4 taken at the highest resolution possible. We suggest using Apple’s Quicktime player to record the videos:

C. Your Choice – a screen recording of another digital project –OR– 3 images of another print project from Advanced Type or Core Type or Creative Computing or Core Interaction

👩‍💻 Documenting and Presenting Digital Work

If you continue creating digital projects, you’ll eventually run into the problem of documenting your work. What are some ways you might do this? Let’s explore a few techniques.

Before You Begin

Consider what the most compelling parts of your project are. Is it the typography? The animations? The layout? Understand that most people only have a couple minutes to look at something. With this in mind, how can you grab their attention, communicate the best parts of something, and hopefully, if they’re still interested, have a way of learning more.

Note: Generally, this means editing down your project to a few key features, rather than showing every last detail.