spring sensation writeup

Prepared by Cameron Smith

a) Discuss your creative process. How did you come up with your ideas for visuals/visual meaning/colours/fonts etc?

I came up with my ideas because at the time I was just desperate on the thumbnail sketches. Rather quite suddenly an idea pops right in there, a bouncing flower. Then I added a little irony in it because spring the season and the bouncy piece of metal have the same name. So I built that piece of art from scratch.  Let’s just say I thought this first poster looked good but nobody’s perfect. The problems on the first poster were that some of the words were hard to read, I found small to draw on, and the colour of the flowers made them almost invisible.

Later in the month I made a brand new draft and it looked better.   

The backgrounds are light turquoise for the sky and green for the grass. These are spring colours. I put in five spring and some flowers to keep my original idea for the metal spring.  I used black text for the poster in sky and grass area and it looked good and stood out. I tried using white text for the poster but it did not stand out clearly and looked ghostly. 

b) Discuss your technical process. Challenges - and how you overcame them. What steps were involved in creating your poster?

In Adobe, I tried to add a text box and it would freeze. Eventually I went to another computer and tried again. But the second computer keyboard tray was loose and did not work well.  Finally I got is working on another computer.

One big challenge was when I finished my first draft, the person who was in charge of spring sensations, Ms Ostapchuk didn’t like my poster and I was a little devastated.  I still went to Comm. Tech to work in my poster but I was a little bit gloomy.

Another challenge was getting the image of the poster in my USB key so I could bring it home to finish it. I did not know how to do it and the other work in Comm. Tech was overwhelming me and stressing me out.  I worked through it and created a new version using MS Paint.  

I searched the web for good images to use. I found but could not get it is to work on the MS Paint program. The image was hard to cut and paste and get it to match up with the colour of the background I choose.  I pasted it in the poster and used the paint brush in MS Paint to colour in the gaps.

I also had problems with the text for the poster. I created the text in MS Word and cut and pasted into MS Paint. Sometimes the text box would stretch in the wrong way and I had to try again to get it work right.
Remember that if you followed any tutorials to learn new techniques in Photoshop or Illustrator, please post the link or embed the video into your blog post and briefly explain what you learned for bonus marks!  I used MS Paint program and Adobe Photo shop for the first draft.