With this project I wanted to have a fade from blackness to a lighter shade. I wanted to do this as I believe that it helps describe the past year for me in a number of ways.
The first way, I believe that this dark to light fade describes this past year is the way that I have come out of a self-imposed "darkness" and have become more socially outgoing than I ever have been in the past. It was very difficult to do, and I wanted to convey a kind of ebb and flow of the darker shades and the lighter shades, as if they were myself going back and forth on whether or not I made an effort to go out with friends.
The second way that this image and concrete text describes the past year for me has to do with the different feelings that going out on a weekend with your friends can evoke. The ones I chose to focus on were emotion, power, and faith. When I first started going out, the only thing that I could think of was how suffocating it was. The darkness, masses of people, and cigarette smoke made for a suffocating environment that I was not comfortable in. Power, was the second feeling that I decided to focus on, and that had to do with responsibility and independence from anyone but yourself. You alone are responsible for your actions, and with this brought a certain sense of empowerment. The third feeling was that of faith, and I chose this because of the way people feel when the night has been a horrible one. Where everything that can go wrong has gone wrong. I'm sure most people have experienced nights like these, and often times the only thing that makes it better is the faith that the sun will rise again.
For this concrete text/image I started out using power point. With power point I created my base of having a black background with a circle in the center that was a lighter shade of grey. The text was also created in power point. I then saved the slide as a jpeg and manipulated it with gimp, mainly using different brushes and smudging tools.
3 comments:
Daniel -
I like the visual aspects of this piece a lot...I like the unrelenting darkness of the background and the halogen-esque glow of your words in the dark...I like the smudge effect as well, seems pretty neat to me...the only comment I would make (and it looks great as is, so it's strictly up to you) is to find a font that mirrors the neon lights in the darkness aspect and use that to pump up that possible aspect of things...maybe pump the colors so they stop short of hurting your eyes, like really bright lights in the dark of night do...you also might consider switching the darker color from along the outside to the inside or the right side, to echo the part of the piece that talks about it is always darkest before the dawn...but, yeah...I love the color choice and the blur effect...seems like you're really capturing something deeper in these few lines of text...good luck with this! It's pretty cool!
Daniel -
Here's a pretty cool, noirish font that kind of reminds me of block graffiti...
http://www.fontspace.com/billy-argel/a-bite
Just in case. :)
I really like how you did this project, and how you related the color of light and dark. The point of this project went into one direction capturing the eye of the reader/audience very quickly. I felt that the point of this project is to capture the audiences’ eye, in which you did very well. The project in terms of technically does well in the image and design. The only advice I would give you is to change the font and not have it so plain.
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