DPI | PROJECT 2

 

09.11.2024 -30.11.2024 /Week 7-10
Loh Kai Xuan (0365780)
Digital Photography and Imaging, Creative Media Design, Taylor's University

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POSTER DESIGN

Ideation, Sketches and progress

Final Outcome:

"HOPE IS THE THING WITH FEATHERS"

Hope is just like a bird, always with us, singing hope to us. In this story we call life, the feathers and pages flowing out will remind us that we can write our own stories and make it through the harshest of storms, just like a bird.

I made the word hope the brightest in the dark surrounding, which allowed the contrast to show us hope. The pages and feathers flies out of the book rhythmically like a music score, signifying that singing bird and the story we will write by ourselves, never confined to a fixed narrative in a printed book. I used pictures of a real book and pages to make it seem more close to home.

The film grain gives a nostalgic and hopeful feeling imitating newspapers or book pages. The obscured face and bright lighting on the main subject is a reference to low quality angel sighting photos, another symbolism of hope.

Link to Research and Ideation: Click Here

Link to Poster Editing Progress: Click Here

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REFLECTION

This project was fun and challenged me to use skills learned from tutorials. Like photography techniques and adjustment layers in photoshop. Playing around with photoshop to get the results I like was a interesting experience and finally getting it to feel right to myself was a liberating feeling. Having to work within confines of the brief forced me to go out of my comfort zone instead of working on a piece for "me". Overall, a challenging yet fun project.