April 27, 2015 What I did and Why I did it This weekend I worked on Jay Gatsby’s poster. I got it to a point that I liked it, but when I got into class today for some reason I hated it. So, I completely re-did it. The child of two graphic designers in me just […]
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More work!
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April 24, 2015 What I did and Why I did it I spent about half the class trying to resolve my font issues, which was quickly solved when I learned how to do a drop-shadow in Photoshop! Yay! After that, I started searching Google for source images for the characters Nick and Jay. I want […]
Peer Review
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April 22, 2015 In peer review, I received some great feedback on the first movie poster that I created, which was for Daisy. Overall, my partners really liked what I had done with my photo manipulation, but had a few issues with clarity and readability. In the coming days, I’ll keep an eye on that […]
Daisy
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This is the post for the class on April 20th. What I did and why I did it I updated my Adobe Creative Suite! Yay! Now I can actually start putting together some images for the peer review on Wednesday. Also, I put together a rough cut of the poster for Daisy, using images from […]
The Great Gatsby
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This is the blog post for the April 17 class meeting online. What I did & Why I did it Today I watched the 2013 Baz Luhrmann version of The Great Gatsbyin order to have some more source material for my project. That’s pretty much it!
4/13/15
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What I Did I worked out a timeline for my Remix a Story project. I also began work on deciding which characters from Gatsby I would focus on for the movie posters. I need to watch the newest movie again so that I can get a little more inspiration. I also am going to watch […]
Timeline
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4/15 – Pick characters for posters 4/17 – Decide what words to use 4/20 – Rough drafts 4/22 – Presentations 4/24 – Polish 5/6 – Due
Project 4 Idea
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My “Remix a Story” project will be a mashup of A Song of Ice and Fire by George R.R. Martin (aka “Game of Thrones”) and The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. I will take inspiration from the ASOIAF tradition of personal heraldry and use the Adobe Creative Suite to design sigils for characters in Gatsby. I will also […]
Project 4 – Planning
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http://www.westeros.org/Citadel/Heraldry/ – sigils http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/type0124.html#lang – three little pigs (arya) http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/176345 – little bo peep (cat) http://www.mothergooseclub.com/rhymes_parent.php?id=130 – jack and jill (jaime and cersei) http://www.hubbardscupboard.org/nursery_rhyme_words.html – humpty dumpty (ned or oberyn) – peter peter pumpkin eater (little finger) – twinkle twinkle little star (dany and the comet) http://www.taleswithmorals.com/aesop-fable-the-ass-in-the-lion’s-skin.htm – ass in lions skin (joffrey) http://www.taleswithmorals.com/the-sick-stag.htm – […]
I bet they never thought anyone would ever see it again
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This is the blog post for the March 2, 2015 class meeting. Today we examined an Interrogate an Interface project from last year in a group. It was neat to see how someone approached the project that I myself am going to be completing in just a few short weeks. One thing that I noticed […]