Speech round one

My speech round one

Journal 10

The State of the Nation | this video was very mathematical and factual. It was clear and easy to understand. I liked the graphics and the pacing. It was fast and straight forward. It wasnt very inspirational though, which is what the speech project is all about, inspiring people and moving them. Making an impact on them. This video was more matter of fact and poppy. It was educational, but nothing that really moved me.

The Hidden Cost of War | this video was similar to the previous in style and manner, but I liked the beginning of it a lot. I liked the way the type fit into each other and then turned. There were a lot more graphics towards the end, but the initial type treatment was very effective and captivating. This is a technique that I would use in my speech.

How Much Money do we Spend on Food? | this video was a little different than the previous although created by the same designers because it did not have a person speaking. It was all type and image. I thought the way they put the type with the images was clever and effective. I liked the way they layered the type at times to create depth. the type was simple and to the point. It was easy to read quickly and understand.

Journal 11

Debbie Millman the President of the design division at Sterling Brands, an international design consultancy. She has been there for fourteen years and in that time she has worked on the redesign of global brands for Pepsi, Procter & Gamble, Campbell’s, Colgate, Hershey and Hasbro. Debbie is President of the AIGA, the professional association for design. She is a contributing editor at Print Magazine and the chair of the new Masters in Branding program at the School of Visual Arts. In 2005, she began hosting “Design Matters with Debbie Millman,” the first weekly radio talk show about design on the Internet. She is the author of two books: How To Think Like A Great Graphic Designer (Allworth Press, 2007), and The Essential Principles of Graphic Design (Rotovision, 2008). Her new book, Look Both Ways: Illustrated Essays on the Intersection of Life and Design, will be published by How Books in Fall 2009.

Design Matters is a program where Debbie Millman interviews Designers.

I liked listening to this program because it was very much like listening to a childhood story. I love listening to stories. It seemed like a reading from an autobiography. I liked hearing about Debbie reflect on her life and how it could have been if she would have become a journalist. This is a moment that I am sure to have in my life. I will think what if I would have become a painter or a fine artist rather than a Graphic Designer. "It may or may not be as tactile or visually stimulating." Millmann says this as she analyses the possibility of the end of print. People are still reading and writing though so the end of print is not true.

Stefan Bucher

I love the story before this interview about Playboy.

Kansas City is beautiful.

Speech

Ladies and Gentlemen - I'm only going to talk to you just for a minute or so this evening. Because...

I have some very sad news for all of you, and I think sad news for all of our fellow citizens, and people who love peace all over the world, and that is that Martin Luther King was shot and was killed tonight in Memphis, Tennessee.

Martin Luther King dedicated his life to love and to justice between fellow human beings. He died in the cause of that effort. In this difficult day, in this difficult time for the United States, it's perhaps well to ask what kind of a nation we are and what direction we want to move in.

For those of you who are black - considering the evidence evidently is that there were white people who were responsible - you can be filled with bitterness, and with hatred, and a desire for revenge.

We can move in that direction as a country, in greater polarization - black people amongst blacks, and white amongst whites, filled with hatred toward one another. Or we can make an effort, as Martin Luther King did, to understand and to comprehend, and replace that violence, that stain of bloodshed that has spread across our land, with an effort to understand, compassion and love.

For those of you who are black and are tempted to be filled with hatred and mistrust of the injustice of such an act, against all white people, I would only say that I can also feel in my own heart the same kind of feeling. I had a member of my family killed, but he was killed by a white man.

But we have to make an effort in the United States, we have to make an effort to understand, to get beyond these rather difficult times.

My favorite poet was Aeschylus. He once wrote: "Even in our sleep, pain which cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, until, in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom through the awful grace of God."

What we need in the United States is not division; what we need in the United States is not hatred; what we need in the United States is not violence and lawlessness, but is love and wisdom, and compassion toward one another, and a feeling of justice toward those who still suffer within our country, whether they be white or whether they be black.

(Interrupted by applause)

So I ask you tonight to return home, to say a prayer for the family of Martin Luther King, yeah that's true, but more importantly to say a prayer for our own country, which all of us love - a prayer for understanding and that compassion of which I spoke. We can do well in this country. We will have difficult times. We've had difficult times in the past. And we will have difficult times in the future. It is not the end of violence; it is not the end of lawlessness; and it's not the end of disorder.

But the vast majority of white people and the vast majority of black people in this country want to live together, want to improve the quality of our life, and want justice for all human beings that abide in our land.

(Interrupted by applause)

Let us dedicate ourselves to what the Greeks wrote so many years ago: to tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world.

Let us dedicate ourselves to that, and say a prayer for our country and for our people. Thank you very much. (Applause)

Robert F. Kennedy - April 4, 1968

Journal 09

REFLECTION

I learned a lot during the sequence exercise. It was nice to do a hands on project rather than all on the computer. I learned about mixing organic shapes with more geometric pages. I also learned about breaking up clean pages with more cluttered pages to create interesting rhythm.

I watched a few type in motion videos by Saul Bass. I liked the way the text flowed and the imagery related back to the text. I think this is a very powerful medium and am excited to try it out.

SPEECH RESEARCH

Who is speaking? Senator Robert F. Kennedy

Why was/is the speech important to society? It was the speech given after Martin Luther King was shot

Why do you feel in is important or interesting? This was a turning point in US history to stand up and create unity after such a traumatic event. It was a speech given to inspire peace, love, and unity between all americans.

What is the emotion, mood, tone, personality, feeling of the speech? The tone of this speech is sad, contemplative, almost like a prayer. It is a prayer to ask the people to overcome this difficult time. to overcome violence and disorder.

What is intonation, emphasis, what is loud, stressed, or soft. Where are there pauses... The speaker takes many pauses between phrases and thoughts.

What do you FEEL should be loud or soft, long pause or ruhed? The speech should be slow, drawn out, dramatic. It gave me chills because of the pacing. I want to draw out the spacing more.

Is there a call to action? When listening to it what are key/emphasized words? Yes the speaker inspires americans to continue Martin Luther Kings dream in their own lives.

How does it make you feel? this speech made me think about racism and hatred. It made me think about todays world and how far we have come. as well how far we still have to go.

How do imagine that the audience felt? the audience was terrified and petrified. they were sad and confused and lost. it was a scary moment. hatred and loss. sadness and revenge.

Could there be another interpretation of the speech? people could think RFK was racist because of the way he says "black people" and "white people"

_ Write/find a short bio, of the person giving the speech.

Robert Francis Kennedy, the son of Joseph Patrick Kennedy and Rose Fitzgerald, was born in Brookline, Massachusetts, in 1925. His great grandfather, Patrick Kennedy, had emigrated from Ireland in 1849 and his grandfathers, Patrick Joseph Kennedy and John Francis Fitzgerald, were important political figures inBoston. Kennedy's father was a highly successful businessman who later served as ambassador to Great Britain (1937-40).

Kennedy went to Harvard University but his studies were interrupted by the Second World War. In November 1944 he joined the United States Navy but the war finished before he was called into action. He returned to Harvard and graduated in 1948. This was followed by a law degree from the University of Virginia.

In 1950 Kennedy married Ethel Shakel and their first child, Kathleen, was born on 4th July, 1951. Joe McCarthy, the controversial senator from Wisconsin, was asked to be the child's godfather. Over the next few years Ethel gave birth to eleven children.

In 1951 Kennedy joined the Criminal Division of the U.S. Department of Justice but resigned the following year to help his brother, John F. Kennedy, in his successful campaign to be elected to the Senate. Kennedy returned to legal work in 1953 when Joe McCarthy appointed him as one of the 15 assistant counsels to the Senate subcommittee on investigations.

Kennedy's first task was to research Western trade with China. He discovered that Western European countries accounted for around 75 per cent of all ships delivering cargo to China. In an interview with the Boston Post Kennedy argued that: "it just didn't make sense to anybody in this country that our major allies, whom we're aiding financially, should trade with the communists who are killing GIs".

In a speech in the Senate Joe McCarthy praised Kennedy's research. He also controversially called for the United States Navy "to sink every accursed ship carrying materials to the enemy and resulting in the death of American boys, regardless of what flag those ships may fly."

On 29th July, 1953, Kennedy resigned from McCarthy's office. There is some dispute about why he took this action. In his book, The Enemy Within, Kennedy claimed he resigned because he "disagreed with the way that the Committee was being run". However, other accounts suggest that it was the result of a dispute with Roy Cohn. When McCarthy supported Cohn in the dispute, Kennedy resigned.