A typographic animation of the poem Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll.

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The challenge for this project was to create a visual representation of the poem by only using the words in the poem, no imagery or graphics. I used one typeface throughout for consistency, and used italics only when someone was speaking, to differentiate that voice in the poem. Otherwise I relied on shaping and sizing the words differently, and the orientation of the words to one another. The project started out digitally (I shaped the stanzas in InDesign), then was printed and taped onto receipt paper, pulled down a track, and digitally captured on video with minor edits in Premiere. The timing of the stanzas in the frame was all done manually while the paper was pulled down the track.