Movie Poster

Process:
To create my poster I first had to brainstorm and sketch about the movie. It was hard at first to make the image symbolic as opposed to cinematic which was the style I was naturally drawn to but since we are studying Saul Bass I needed to simplify my design. I wanted to find a few simply things that could sum up or symbolize the movie but it was a lot more difficult than I thought. I finally decided to use this image of people lining up to symbolize the concentration camps in Germany.

Challenges:
I had to learn a few things throughout the course of this poster. I had to watch a tutorial to learn how to put the texture on the people to give it a more grunge and aggressive vibe. Also i had to find a subject in the middle of the poster. I tried a lot of things but nothing really captured the mood i wanted to convey with the poster.

Reflection:
This Project was great because I learned a lot and got to exercise my creativity extensively. I like how we had to keep our posters similar to Saul Bass because it makes it much more challenging and leaves it to your mind to symbolize and make clever connections to your movie and the themes within it.

Custom Type

This is my custom font created from the tutorial. I focused on adding and subtracting to the type. After i wanted to create positive and negative space to the font so i added shapes and also erased parts of type. I also played with the form of the letters and altered their shape.

Ten Things

Throughout this top ten project I learned a lot about values. People only buy products because of values they hold. Consumption is driven by emotions and things that people are connected to. We learned how to identify our values and be aware of this process.

This is the first time I have used in-design and it was a bit challenging. It was difficult to learn the interface and creating and using a grid is a new concept to me. I think I eventually got decent at using it and produced a pretty nice poster.

Kacie's Holiday Tradition

Kerning

Kerning is the way letters are spaced and observed. It can be modified in order to clean up the look of letters and increase readability. When letters are kerned correctly it gives a more professional appearance to your type. Poor kerning can be a big turnoff to viewers.

3 Big Ideas

Final: Believe

Reflection: 

This has been an enjoyable semester in explore A/V. I have learned a lot and been exposed to some valuable experiences like filming the blood drive. I have greatly improved my editing skills since my freshman year. I enjoyed the freedom that we had while making our music videos and had a lot of fun. I enjoy working in groups to put together a film. Also I liked how our music video had a fairly serious theme and message and want to get better at capturing peoples emotions.