Week 5.1

First Concept

Today's main focus was reworking the first cheap as chips poster that I made last week. The first thing that I did was change the background to make it more of a gradient/vignette radiating outwards from the centre.

I really don't know which tool is the best one to use to make this sort of thing so I actually just used different tones of red and the brush tool to make this which I'm sure is the most time consuming way possible. It pretty much worked though.

I quickly chucked it into my current poster on indesign to see what it would look like and I'm pretty happy with it.

I'm not very good at illustrator at all but I wanted a nice vector image of some chips so I hopped in here and did my best with it. It actually turned out better than I thought it would.

I thought of what Donald said about combining different mediums and I didn't want to draw a tampon again considering I painted one for my other poster. 

I wasn't sure how to colour an image on illustrator so I took my outline into photoshop and then used the brush tool to fill in all the pieces. I did the chips all slightly different colour variations which I think was a good call as it lends to a more natural look.

Playing with placement of the heading.

I wasn't so keen on the blue so I tried out a whole bunch of different colours as well as making the size of the chip packet slightly smaller.

I also rounded the corners after this one as the sharp edges just didn't look right.

I settled on this really light pink as I think the tampon contrasts nicely with it and it doesn't get lost on the background. At this point I was thinking the background was too bright so the next few images are of me changing the colour of the background slightly, as well as thinking about the title and emphasis. This is the first poster that I will be showing for interim this Thursday.

Second Concept

After finally purchasing some chips I was then able to make the changes to my other poster. I took some photos of the chips with my camera. I also tried the idea of putting a tampon actually in with the chips (I didn't think this would work but I did it just in case I changed my mind later on).

I then took the photo I liked into Photoshop, selected just the paper and added a few adjustments to make it look a bit grungy.

After Photoshop it was time to bring it into InDesign where it would just replace the spot of my previous image.

This is the poster I decided to go with for the interim. I'm pretty happy with this so it will be interesting to see what feedback I receive on Thursday. The one thing I would change about this would be to make the photo even more grungy and distorted, to really play on that emotive quality of being cheap and dirty.

This was another trial of subtext placement although I don't think this really works.