I just love when I can answer three of the reflective essay questions with one answer...creative textography -- hahahah. For my "movie"/"book" promotion poster, I used a glowing flame text effect for the first time to bring out the letters and to add attention grabbing color to my poster. This had the added benefit of also capturing Captain Ashland's 'super nova vision'. Wow. Three questions answered. Technically, my reflection is done, but I wouldn't want to deprive you's all of further titillating diatribe.
So, I chose my poster genres because I actually had those exact two subjects to promote -- the Captain Ashland & Ganja Boy poster is for the upcoming first publication of the 'graphic novel' of the same title, to be completed for the final in this class and the Nick Temple music poster is to publicize my son's ongoing gig at the local Mexican restaurant, Miguel's.
Finally, I wanted to communicate a certain 'artsiness' and maturity of musicianship to the poster for my son. I wanted to portray his musicality in his facial expression without making it too prominent or overstated, and I wanted it to be obvious that he was playing acoustic guitar without having to spell it out. The simplicity of the poster, I think, lends itself to accomplishing these goals. Captain Ashland, on the other hand, is a fictional character set in a real location, so I used the combination of real people and the actual Ashland Springs Hotel with the cheesy costuming in the foreground and the graphic 'A' in the background (the 'A' being from our letter assignment). The characters and the story poke fun at life in Ashland and at themselves and, well, at life in general so I wanted the poster to have a sense of silliness and fun about it as well as a sense of things being knocked off balance...as the grounded center is humorously jabbed at.
This concludes the banter for this week. I have bestowed a certain mercy on you by stopping short this week, but that is most certainly all the mercy I have for this quarter.
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