My monologue that I chose has been adapted into a book of my creation! The book physically looks terrible, but I am of the mindset that shaky hands and craftsmanship do not go together all that well. I will now show you a picture of shaky hand worksmanship:

If I made books, I would take this picture as an insult personally, but I have really shaky hands when I try to do craft stuff and I just have accepted that I cannot do it. With that said, the monologue is the speech that General Hux gives to the First Order right before firing Starkiller base and killing billions of people. It was in a movie by the way, that didn’t really happen. That would be scary if it did though. Anyway, I love this speech that Hux did because of the delivery that the actor gives. It is spot on for a Bad guy speech and it is just dripping with contempt and hatred. It is my kind of speech. Regardless of my technical skill I think the type that I used for the book was really good. For the title page I used the Star Wars font. Which was easily found on Dafont. I would probably buy this font to be perfectly honest with you though. It is Star Wars after all.

I went over the font choices for the inside in a earlier post so there is no point in rehashing everything. Just read that post! Have a amazing day!

Unlike my previous monologue choice, which was not actually a monologue, I am happy with the composition of this one.

Here is a link to the monologue of General Hux’s Speech from Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens.

actual-mono-rough-draft

I would like to know what you guys think. I think the words that I emphasized were good choices and I think that the typeface that was used, Copperplate Gothic Bold, was a good choice as well. General Hux is very impassioned during this speech and I made the words that he is shouting a lot bigger and I made everything progressively bigger as he continued with his speech. This was to signify his passion. With the font choice I thought that using a font that used all caps as the base would be a good choice. Hux does not slow down in tempo or vigor throughout the speech so I think it worked well. Hopefully this translates well to the booklet portion of the project.

I am very nervous about this part. I have very shaky hands and I am not exactly comfortable using an exacto knife for this project. I watched the demo that my instructor did for this part with a continually growing sense of dread. I think I might require assistance for this part. The exacto knife is used, very lightly, to cut the fibers in the paper. This will make it easier to fold for the booklet. I understand the theory behind the process, but like I said, I am nervous with myself and a exacto knife.

It will all work out though, I am sure. I just have to trust that it will. It always has before.

I feel really dumb right now. In my haste to use the most iconic scene in all of movies for the monologue project, I forgot that a monologue is only one person. The scene from Empire actually has two people. Vader and Luke. So, instead of doing that scene, I will be using General Hux’s speech right before the firing of Starkiller base in Episode VII. Not nearly as iconic, but still an amazing scene.

I am doing a project for Typography that really makes me happy. Any time that I get to use Star Wars in a school project I get really happy. I am assuming that most of you know what a monologue is. With that in mind I did not pick a monologue per-se. I picked a scene from the greatest movie to ever exist. That movie being Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back, which is also my favorite movie.

The exact scene that I am using is one of the most iconic scene in all movies. I am of course talking about the conclusion of Darth Vader’s and Luke’s duel. I pick up right after Darth Vader makes Luke the offer to join him to destroy the Emperor.

Here is the exact script:

                                LUKE
		I'll never join you!

				VADER
		If you only knew the power of the 
		dark side.  Obi-Wan never told 
		you what happened to your father.

				LUKE
		He told me enough!  He told me you 
		who killed him.

				VADER
		No.  I am your father.

Here is how I am translating this scene so far. Note this is a real rough draft so it doesn’t have the flair that it should.

rough-draft-mono

Like I said, it is not beautiful at all, but I think going for a super dark, evil, sith-like font works very well for Vader. It adds to the emotion of the scene and I think it works well. The font that I used is called DK Plague Master. I am using the bare bones version that I downloaded at Dafont. Here is the exact URL: http://www.dafont.com/dk-plague-master.font

I used three different fonts, which might be risky, but I think it works. The parts of dialogue for Luke are in Britannic Bold and Vader’s dialogue is just Arial Black. I thought that the sleekness that the Britannic bold has really contributes to Luke’s character, and I think the boldness and impact that arial black has contributes to Vader’s character really well.

I used the DK Plague Master on a few words in the project. Those words being Dark side, father, NO, and I. Using that font on those words add to the severity of what Vader is saying. I would have preferred to use just the Star Wars font for the whole thing, but I couldn’t find an acceptable Star Wars font.

What do you guys think of the design? Let me know in the comments!

I finally presented the t-shirt for my typography class! It has been a long time coming, but less than a half an hour ago I presented my shirt and I did not die!

There it is! I used a simple design for the sun. I also incorporated Dark Souls into the design as well. Transforming the phrase “Praise the Sun” to “Bask in the Glow”. I wanted to also show that Baskerville translated a lot of epics so I picked my two favorite ones. The Aeneid by Virgil and Paradise Lost by John Milton. I used a really simple design for the people because I cannot draw to save my life. So I used stick figures. BUT, I used the portraits of both Milton and Virgil. So I really am happy with that part of the shirt.