3. Flip-Book

For my final project I will make a flip book that describes the assembly line production of a fast food cheeseburger. The book will explore ideas of speed and efficiency, as well as convenience and time.

The covers of the book will be constructed of book-board. The pages will be made of light-weight paper. The content of the book will be images of the ingredients of a cheeseburger being lade one on top of the other to finally produce a finished cheeseburger. They will be hand drawn with colored pencils. The cover of the book will be titled in very large print “A FAST-FOOD FLIP-BOOK.” The purpose of a flip-book is to animate the contents of its pages creating a smooth sequence of events that can be read/consumed quickly and easily. The twist of this book comes in its size and consequently its ease of function or rather, malfunction as a flip-book. I will make the book very large, 24’ x 24’ so that its pages are so loose that it cant function effectively as a flip-book. Also, the progression of images will develop so slowly from page to page that any evolution can only be witnessed after 10 pages or so.

Time is expressed as the viewer experiences the flip-book - in the sequence of pages and the assembly of the cheeseburger. I want to express how our American food industry seems great in concept, in the idea that is convenient, quick, cheap and readily available to the consumer, however, in the end it does not work. In the end, we sacrifice substance and quality.

Timeline:

Week 1 – attain all materials

Week 2 – construct covers, assemble binding

Week 3 – draw pages

Week 4 – assemble completed flip-book