Last Type Workshop...

Although I don't think I will choosing the type module, todays workshop was quite amusing really. Graham even said it was more targeted at the people that probably weren't going to be working wit him again.

The basis of it was working with phonetics...spelling things the way that they sound, and being from yorkshire, 'up norf', I do like it!

Throughout the first few tasks, we all had to use the same point size and typeface.

(Serif, 36 point)

The first task was to

1: Spell your name how a friend would say it

2: Spell your name how an authoritive person would say it.

My friends that i've known since I was young, never really pronounce my name "Charlotte" it sounds like it should be "Char-lot" but...it just sounds strange when anyone says it like that, Charlut looks more phonetically correct! And the authoritive character, doesn't particularly make the word sound any different, they just put emphasis on the end to try and scare me...

Actually looking back at it, it should probably "Sharlut" because Ch could sound different i.e. Church whereas Sh...Shoe

The second task was also useful but I closed the file...oops. That was to write your name a series of times when someone is saying your name in an activity, i.e. trying to catch your attention.

I thought about how my brother says my name differently when he's asked me to do something but I always say "yeah, in a minute..." and when he continuously asks me it kind of goes...

'Sharlut....Sharlurrrt....Sharlurt...SharLut!'

Trying to portray the annoyance towards the end.

Then it got harder...

We had to try and communicate the sound of something that we do on a morning i.e. brushing your teeth, after walking around, nobody got mine:

It was supposed to be when a bus accelerates to the bus stop...then stops...and lowers the bus, so lets air out.

Then we had to just communicate the sound of a vehicle...any vehicle, doing anything...just the sound of a vehicle. Interestingly, more people could guess what each one was supposed to be when we had this limitation.

Mine was just a motorbike speeding up.

The final task was to do the sound of a vehicle again, but we could change the typeface, the weight and the position on the page.

Mine was once again, a bus accelerating and then stopping and lowering at a bus stop. They didn't exactly guess what it was, but they did get that there was air release at some point...

Although I kind of thought "When am I going to use this?", reflecting back, It was technically quite useful because the words create a nice visual and even though I don't want to work souly with Type i.e. for layouts, it could be more interesting when used with visuals/illustrative type.