Homework #7

This article was particularly interesting to me. I had no idea how much thought went into a simple billboard or grouping of words to make them aesthetically pleasing. I had no idea what kerning was up until now and I am fascinated by what it can do for an image. Some of the rules that were brought up seem like common knowledge to me though. For example, spacing your words correctly to fit a page is something I thought everyone would find important.  I always try and set up my words to be spaced evenly throughout a pamphlet. I also found it interesting how words are set up on pamphlets or power points. If you spread your words to much it's hard to read have them too short and it's annoying to read. You have to find the perfect balance to set up your words properly.

Also, color and contrast are everything. If you are setting up a kids birthday party design you want to use bright exciting colors you don't want to use dark colors. You also want to use fun fonts like comic sans or bubbly font no cursive or some other fancy font. It's all about understanding your audience and accommodating to them.

I learned a lot from this article about how to set up font and how to properly space out and use proper color and fonts for projects to make it more pleasing for an audience.

Movie Poster

Homework #6

This is one of my favorite posters from a movie because of how it depicts everything coming together from the original Star wars movies. Anakin has been on this journey since the first movie to becoming Darth Vader and this movie poster shows the transition perfectly. As you can see Darth Vader's Helmet looms over Anakin as he stares off into the distance. All important characters from the movie are also shown on the poster around him. Finally, in the middle you can see the epic clash of heroes of Obi-Wan and Anakin fighting each other depicting Anakin's downfall.

Movie Idea

The plot of my movie would be me as the main star. It would be an alternate universe in star wars where Luke Skywalker and Leia were both killed and it seemed there was no one else to stop the evil empire. But my character and his friends R2-D2, Rey and Cassian all survived up until now and are able to fight back and fight against the empire. My character finds out he is now the only one who can stop the darkness and vows to learn the ways of the jedi from force ghosts and from visiting old jedi ruins.
Daisy Ridley, Diego Luna, Me

Movie Poster In-class

Album Cover Project

Homework #5

An interesting article about how much thought goes into making a movie poster. The Magnolia poster definitely caught my eye. I loved the detail he put into Magnolia with the sky line at the bottom and the weave that represents the weaving of people through each others lives, it's a very poetic poster. The 'There Will Be Blood' poster had many concepts some that were very simple and some that were more complex and moving. Especially the one where the two men are embracing and one is visually distressed. It shows emotion on a level we usually don't see in our daily lives, it's very grabbing. The one of the man with his face all red and dropping back into the background is also eye catching when you first look at it. It shows distress, danger, mystery which make you want to pick it up and watch it. I enjoyed this article very much and how the creator discussed his process and some of his work, it gives me some great ideas for my upcoming Movie Poster.