Stairway to Helvetica.

This was the second project I was given on the first day. We were split up into 10 groups of 5 where we then had to pick out of random a font. We chose the OCR-A typeface. We then got on with the project as a group and went to research about the font, after about an hour we were writing up lyrics and about 2hours into the project we already had our song. the second part was to create a music video for the song we had written, we chose to use stock motion to complete the video and this was the final outcome!

The lyrics to the song.

Chorus (Girls): O C R A you're leading the way,

making things much easier today.

Verse 1 (Oliver): In sixty eight, that was the date,

O C R A became a recognised type face,

computers could read and people could read,

without it being too complicated.

Chorus (Girls): O C R A you're leading the way,

making things much easier today.

Verse 2 rap (Jean): Yeah.. O C R A, thats our type face,

1968 was a mad date,

Ray K was the dude who provided,

He got paid to pursue his designs mate,

Typeface designed to be the hardest,

Queen's New York I'm repping it for the artist!

Chorus (Girls): O C R A you're leading the way,

making things much easier today.

Verse 3 (Oliver): It's San Serif, don't you forget,

you don't have squiggles and many accents,

there's no way that it couldn't be read,

and if you can't you're messed up in the head.

Chorus (Girls): O C R A you're leading the way,

making things much easier today.

Chorus (Whole Group): O C R A you're leading the way,

making things much easier today.

Heres the Music video