Sunday, October 31, 2010

Poster essay

The posters were a very fun project. I chose to do a movie and propaganda poster. Both challenged me in different ways, and I learned different things about using Photoshop to get them completed.  The expected challenge is why I chose the poster themes I did. I almost did a third poster using the final theme as well.
IT, also known as “Interesting Times” is a movie. In the process of creating this poster I learned more about the “text “tool and how it works. Using the vertical type tool, I found I had to type my words in backwards. This means I had type “Times Interesting” in order to get the words to appear as I desired. Using the text tool I also explored the choice of text color for this poster. Creating this poster also taught me about more way to manipulate color and photos. I used one of my own photos from this past spring. There are four different copies of the photo. I changed the sizes on two of the copies and added two hue and sat layers between the photo layers. I altered the opacity on a couple of the layers.
JOBS the second poster I experimented a great deal with color and opacity. The background is at about 50% opacity in both versions that I posted. I also used the shape tool to create this poster. My brother has taken a few copies of this poster to give them a real life trial at his school. He plans to post them in a lab where he works and observe and report to me on how people respond to them. This poster is actually the one I completed first I overheard a cement about “job” being an acronym and decided to take it a step further. It took me most of the week to figure out how to do this one and then to get it so I was happy with the results.
One final note, as a result of writing this essay I learned something new about our use of Language. “An acronym” two words not one. When spoken it sounds like a single word, though when written it is two words. So art projects have the ability to cause you to learn things from other subjects including English, Math and Science.

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