Book Project Week 2

Really rough outline of the book. Quickly sketched pictures and no text yet. I have started work on the actual pages, but they are still PSD files so you will just have to wait until they are done. So thats it for this week.

Book Proposal

Right now I planning on creating a graphic novel, but because of time I plan on making more of a prologue to a longer story. My idea is to create and set up a back-story of science fiction universe. I will be using a Spastle theme, which is a combination of space and castle, basically a meshing of both science fiction and fantasy. Knights riding rocket horses and cyber dragons, what’s not to love? The dimensions will be about 8 x11 inches or similar. The plan right now is to have it production ready in InDesign. I will draw the images in Photoshop though I might use photographs with filters as backgrounds. It will include both text and images like a comic book. I’m planning on going solo with this project.

Poster Assignment

I know we were only supposed to do two posters, but I miss read the assignment at first and originally did the two movie posters. I couldn’t decide which I liked better so I decided to post them both. As for the propaganda posters, when I was brainstorming the second half of the assignment and I came up with both ideas and liked them so I decided to do both. The two themes I chose were the movie posters and the Propaganda posters. I didn’t choose to make a music poster because these had to be for things that didn’t exist and I didn’t want to over think the process of making a poster for music I’ve never heard before, that’s hard enough to do for music you have listened too. Both movies and propaganda are very visual while music is more in your mind. Some compositional techniques I used to catch someone’s attention were to use zigzags, asymmetry, and contrast. The two movie posters I wanted to instill a sense of mystery with the images by either altering the image to either be really washed out and light with a few dark areas to give some details, but not enough. Also by going in the opposite direction and darkening the image so that it is almost a silhouette. The propaganda posters were more of a dark humor. The images themselves are very imposing while the text plays off some recognizable phrases twisting them to mean something very different.

Picture Assignment

When taking the pictures I didn’t ask for permission. For the picture of a friend I went up to my brother and said “I’m taking your picture!” He was rather caught off guard. For the one of the stranger I’m not even sure they were aware I was taking their picture. As far as the editing I did to the pictures I only cropped the one of myself, but that was because I was trying to take a picture of myself by myself and all the pictures came out pretty bad. On that picture I’m not really sure what I was going for with it. I didn’t really like any of my shots. I started playing with the tint and saturation in the background just to try to make it more subdued. I ended up lowering the contrast and the saturation a lot and I noticed the painting in the background was red on one side of me and blue on the other so I tinted the wall behind the painting subtly the same colors to give it a warm and cold feel. On second one I Made the picture black and white and then raised the contrast so that it would look more interesting because it originally was a lot of similar shades of grey. On the last on I wanted to draw most of the focus on the boy so I simply made everything else black and white and left him in color. Besides lighting and exposure I did like adding different color filters to different portions of the same pictures