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Thursday, December 11, 2014

Movie Poster Promo

For our next G.T. project, Mr. Sanderl instructed us to make our own movie trailer and poster. I was actually pretty excited to receive this project because it seemed pretty fun. My team consists of me, Ana, Kuumomi, and April, and we all agreed on my story for the movie trailer project, which at the same time, is honorable and terrifying. My poster shows all of the actors. (Except for a few exceptions)The characters are Calypso(Me), her father(Aedan), Artemis(Leila), Apollo(Rafael), Hera(Keegan), Hecate(Hannah), and Orion(Noa). But the poster only shows Calypso, her father, Artemis, and Apollo staring off into the sunset, which sounds pretty freaking majestic in my opinion.

My movie is called "Calypso's Journey". I called it this because... well basically a girl named Calypso needs to go on this journey to Rome from Greece. So I thought "Calypso's Journey" would be an appropriate title for this story. Another thing on my poster is the catchphrase which states: "Saving her family is harder than she thought" I chose to make this the catchphrase because Calypso goes through many tough challenges in my story that not just anyone would have an easy time going through them. One thing that I should explain is the definition of kerning and why we should even use it. Well kerning is basically is the process of adjusting the spacing between characters in a proportional font. I feel like we should use this because not only does it look a lot better, but it could make more room for other things I might want to put in there.

Now that I FINALLY finished my movie poster, I took the picture of me on the red brick wall, and put it in front of a picture of a forest. Of course, in order to actually make this possible I had to put some filters on it. I used a filter called film grain which made it look a bit more like a sketch and a lot more bright. I'm actually really proud on what I accomplished! Although, I could retrace my body a little better because some of the brick wall is showing up in the forest...  



  
My Not-Quite-Finished Movie Poster
My Finished Movie Poster

Wednesday, December 10, 2014

Book Art

For my seventh period class, Mrs. Sanderl gave us a project that required us to take large books, and fold their pages into making words out of them. The genius artist who thought about this idea was a man named Isaac Salazar. Isaac has been creating these for since October 2009, and still continues to make folded books. This form of art would be classified as visual literacy. Visual literacy is the ability to interpret, negotiate, and make meaning
from information presented in the form of an image. This art project is an example of visual literacy because your folding book pages to make actual words, and while your folding, you get to see some of the things that are on the pages which your folding.

I actually did not one book, but two books. My first word I decided to do was the word "Mind". I chose this word because first of all, I had to choose a 1-4 letter word, and second of all, I chose to do a word that had something to do with education, so why not the word "Mind"? I chose a video game font because for one, I love video games, and I thought a blocky font for "mind" would be an interesting challenge to fold. I chose to fold an encyclopedia because it was the only book large enough to fit the word "mind" with the font I chose. That word was about 375 pages (Not exact)The other word I chose was the name "Leo".  chose to fold the name "Leo" because I had just finished my favorite book series and Leo was my favorite character. That word was maybe about 250 pages? Once again, I'm not too sure about the exact page number it took me to fold. I chose a normal font for Leo. Nothing special because I didn't want to mess up Leo's name.

My Mind book turned out alright. The "I" was a little messed up, but it looks okay to me. The Leo book turned out better than I expected. The "E" was a little wavy though for some reason. If I had to choose a third word and do this again, I would probably choose the word "Art" to give to my grandmother who's an art teacher. And I would definitely do this again if I had the free time. I would probably end up going over the pages of my last two books and refold the messed up ones. For the Art book, I would probably do a book about...ART!