book project: final

FRONT COVER

BASKETBALL

KITCHEN

VIDEO GAMES

DRINKIN'

SEX

BALLER

BACK COVER

Book Project Reflective Essay

I decided to make a book that pokes fun at comic books, video games, and familiar characters. The overall theme of my book is what these characters are up to when they aren't being their character. So, Magneto is chillin' at home with his wife Belle and their dogs. To best serve my theme, I employed a collage technique. I felt making each page a collage would be funny since everything would be out of proportion and look like it doesn't quite go, kind of like the situations in which I placed the characters. I also wanted to use bold colorful shapes for the word blurbs, which were written in Comic Sans as a way of poking some more fun.

Keeping to a production schedule was a weird experience for me. I wasn't thrilled about dragging out a project. I like to work fast and have instant gratification. Maybe that's a bad thing, so keeping to a production schedule pushed me to constantly revise and recreate. It was good that there were clear due dates because I respond well to that. I am a total procrastinator. I am most productive and diligent when I wait until the last minute...because then I have to be.

I will keep one copy of the book that the school prints. Having a copy of the first digital book I've made is a pretty cool thing. Other than that, it will most likely only be viewable on this blog unless someone jacks it and reproduces it...like I did with all of the images I used.       

book project: dummy

FRONT COVER

 DRINKIN'

VIDEO GAMES

  

BASKETBALL

BEDTIME

CARDS

 

HUNGRY

BACK COVER

book project: proposal

My idea for my book is to show what life is like for a superhero when he's chillin at home with the wife, not being a superhero. I will appropriate all of the images and make a collage. The backgrounds will be rooms in the house and have a window or wallpaper design. I plan on using different images of Magneto. I am bombarded with his image since my boyfriend is obsessed with MVC2 and Magneto is his favorite character. I guess I'm poking fun.

As for text, I will probably have a line on every page and use a bold font with all caps. Something superhero or in your face. I might use bright colors for the text or I might just stick to black. Whatever works best with the collage.
   
I will be working within square pages. I think 2200 pixels wide by 2200 pixels high. I think the collage technique will work well with the subject matter. The comic book look is not really what I'm interested in. I want it to look like a story book of collages, not frames right next to each other.

FRONT COVER: Magneto in front of a cute little house, coming home from work with his briefcase. title.
PAGE 1: dinner time. asking wife to cook him something.
PAGE 2: basketball game. maybe horse.
PAGE 3: cigars and cards with the boys. 
PAGE 4: drunk ass Magneto.
PAGE 5: playing video games until dawn and getting mad for losing.
PAGE 6: bed time. gettin it on.
BACK COVER: a blurb asking for maple sausage and waffles.

poster project

Poster Project Reflective Essay

I chose to make a poster for a movie and a poster for a show. I think I chose to do a movie and a show because those are things I enjoy and see a lot, but never really look at and appreciate. I'm not trying to make a difference so the propaganda poster didn't seem like it would be much fun. I made posters of things I enjoy or find humorous. 

As far as compositional techniques, I wanted to keep it simple but bold. For both posters, I used one image and made it the biggest thing in the poster. Both of the compositions have a limited color palette, the second one more so than the first. The titles are the biggest and most important text. Taglines, quotes, dates, and times follow with varying, but smaller, sizes. The sexy time poster is broken up with flat color and shapes, peppered with quotes to help balance the composition. 

The font I chose was important for the effectiveness of the posters. The honey badger poster uses a font that looks broken or separated, conveying an unsettling feeling. The red and green colors also seem alarming and sick. For the sexy time poster, I wanted to use a font that was clear and bold. I think the "in your face" font works for the subject matter, which is something revealing and suggestive. The starkness and boldness of the white and black text also helps support the message.