I need some project advice again, this time much easier

[zfubarz]

So for that weird crazy class i have (fantasy and topography of the imagination) i have my final project coming up.

It's a comprehensive portfolio about what we learned in the course, how it all relates to everything else in the course, and our own personal growth.

Now I hate the class, so I'm going to be sure and put my feelings about that into the project.

I'm going to write a story about myself, somewhat fairytalish in nature, detailing my shift from a wide eyed optimistic first year student all excited and so on (not exactly true but you get the idea) into frustration with the nature of the course and the misinformation about it initially, to a sort of robotic personality, just going through the motions and doing the work simple to get through the course, and eventually a bit of a return back to humanity, albeit a bit more cynical about teh situation by the end of the year.

So since this class is ridiculous and this doesn't need to follow any kind of formal guidelines as long as I hit all the points needed in the outline. so I figure I'll have fun with it and make it a bit ridiculous.

at the very least i want to use some font styles and chapter headings to emphasize the shift in mental state. I may go so far as to write in different styles for each chapter to show this shift as well, but that could get a bit troublesome so we'll see how that goes.

I figured what better place to ask for examples or links to font styles or good headers i could sketch onto the chapter pages, kind of like a monty python image for the fairytale part, and something like the LRR header for the robotic part.

bearing in mind that I'm technically illiterate when it comes to things like photoshop and so on, so the simpler the better.

also as an aside, I plan on using images occasionally as well, like the image of the wild women who kill the sandman's son in Neil Gaimans sandman: fables and reflections, to depict my feminazi professor. any ideas for that kind of thing would be great as well, but it's not all that important, i can probable find plenty from within the course work for that.

also yes i realize the inherent danger in this approach, but I've asked how honest i can be, and they said go for it, so If I have to fight for the grade I'm willing, if it means I can make my point.

[Dutch guy]

For the fonts, start with something like comic sans (The antichrist of the typography world, and much loved by first year students) then work your way through sans serif, etc. Something like Arial or Century Gothic for the robot part. Times New Roman or Calibri for the last bit.

[empath]

No, Fixedsys for the finish. Go from Comic Sans to stuff like Andale Mono, Impact and Calibri, shifting to Verdana and TNR, then Arial, C-Goth, Courier New, and finally Fixedsys.

[empath]

...or even a step beyond that would be binary or maybe hexadecimal.

[Angnor]

If there's any particular font the instructor(s) use all the time, that should be the robotic one.

[Master Gunner]

Fixedsys should be the penultimate font. The last sentence or so should shift into System, the sans-serif version.

[empath]

Crap; thank you; I was thinking of Micro$oft's System but couldn't remember the name, and I chanced across Fixedsys over on the wiki first and jumped to a conclusion.

[theDreamer]

Isn't the end cynicism?

System still makes me think robotic.

[empath]

...rereads OP.

Whups; okay, "eventually a bit of a return back to humanity, albeit a bit more cynical about teh situation by the end of the year."

Well, probably something like TNR, but inSarcastic Font

(sadly, glennmcanally.com's gone 404, so in a min I'll link to our old thread about this...right here)

[theDreamer]

Use the Irony Mark a lot, too.

It's a small reverse question mark, and is real English grammar.

From the 1500s or something.

[Master Gunner]

Don't forget the interrobang!

[zfubarz]

Ahh most excellent folks, system will work great, and yes I was thinking that the sarcastic ending would be something sort of slanty and angular much like that.

Now the question is should I write the entire chapter in the appropriate font or just the chapter heading and the first sentence or paragraph or some such?

I have a feeling he wouldn't get the irony mark, although I do enjoy working an interobang in anywhere I can.

[empath]

I'd say try drafts in each method (entire chapters in specific fonts vs. chapter headings only in specific fonts) and see for yourself which works better; remember that readability can factor in, too.

[Master Gunner]

One thing to think about when you move into the more mechanical stage is to adjust your justification to turn the text into solid blocks, with each line of identical length (like in the Gutenberg Bible).

[zfubarz]

yeah with the later chapters I can see the italic style causing some trouble reading

good call gunner, I'll see how that end up looking.

[Metcarfre]

Pretend you're Coupland and have ten pages of just binary in the middle.

[theDreamer]

I was actually thinking of throwing in some House of Leaves things.

Backwards text and what not.

[DRog]

Change your syntax every once in a while. For instance, you could speak completely grammatically correct and fine. then you could switch into completely lowercase and add more slang. POSSIBLY DO ALL CAPS AS WELL. abbr. evrythng.

[Arius]

P u t a s p a c e a f t e r e v e r y l e t t e r a n d n u m b e r , a s w e l l a s p u n c t u a t I o n s i g n s .

[Master Gunner]

Switch between tenses and voices too. Following along with House of Leaves, write large editorials about what you just wrote.

[zfubarz]

lol oh yeah that's part of the brilliant part of it, since it's a reflection about my growth and work in the course I really can put in parts of previous essays and then just talk about it reference myself.

I'm think about also putting it in some sort of notebook form so that it looks like a rough draft of a story, or a used course text, and have scibbles and notes in the margins, put a girls number in there, doodles, etc. maybe do an entire margin of all work and no play makes jack a dull boy.

actually I really could add some binary messages to it as well. not hard to scribble in some 1's and 0's

[Master Gunner]

Randomly segue into a Story Guy or 30 Minutes or Less sketch.

[Sieg Reyu]

P u t a s p a c e a f t e r e v e r y l e t t e r a n d n u m b e r , a s w e l l a s p u n c t u a t I o n s i g n s .

A n d s p a c e s t o o . A l s o y o u s h o u l d u s e w i n g d i n g s .


E D I T : A w w w w w w , i t r e m o v e d a l o t o f m y f r i v o l o u s s p a c e s .

[zfubarz]

http://robot6.comicbookresources.com/wp ... hg0450.jpg

so is there anyway to get stuff like that distilled down to it's base images? remove the background, etc.

incidentally this is the one I was gonna use to reference my crazy ass prof... too much?
http://www.satt.org/grafiken2/faery-appendix-II-7.gif