The Final Post
After many days of planning and thinking of an idea, we have finally come up with a finished product for our final assignment.
From the beginning our idea was to have a contrast between two sides. So we thought of ideas that would encompass that. Something that had two sides and was easy to split in half. Since our topic was literacy a book was the most ideal idea.
We came a long way from our initial ideas.
Which were:
- An album cover. A face that was cut in half one side having a retro design, while the other was very punk and plain. We wanted to show that the punk side was plain because there was no literature and no imagination, while the retro side was very wonky and full of life.
- Take a full body picture of people and arrange them side by side each with a different emotion that was connected to a part of literature. Each pose would encompass a genre.
- Graffiti. We were looking at art that was drawn on the ground but was really realistic. It was almost like an illusion. So we wanted to make one like this but instead of a waterfall, it would be walking into a world of literature.
- Another idea was to use silhouettes of people placed one one field. We had a few ideas of how to use the silhouettes . One idea was to arrange them on a plain field of grass, and organize them from left to right. From the left we would have some important literary figures you are taught in grade 9, and then grade 10 until you reach the end of the poster you would see important grade 12 literary figures like Hamlet, Amir from the Kite Runner and so on. The other idea was to use our friends in different poses trying to spark a love for reading.
However a lot of these ideas did not get picked because they were either to cheesy or had no meaning. Which is why we chose to go for the one we currently have. Since we had the opportunity to show something real to the school, we wanted to have something that would stop someone with some intellect so that they could ponder about what is going on in the poster.
Our idea was to have one half be a retro propaganda poster showing a historical figure, Marilyn Monroe, with tape across her face. This side would have a lot of symbols and pictures but no words.
The other side of the page was the complete opposite being complete words and typography.
We wanted to show that the books we are fed are previously picked to force a type of thinking. We are told to read come books because they have messages that other people want us to know.
We dont read books that we want to read. We are forced to read bother that others need us to read.
The words on the background were just the cherry on top to finish and polish the artwork up.
For the last time,
Thank you for reading :D
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