I saw a post in Twitter today about a possible assignment for the #ds106 assignment bank.
This sounds like a great assignment for #ds106 https://t.co/vGILjlNyI7
— Ben Rimes (@techsavvyed) May 13, 2015
@techsavvyed so did you submit to the assignment bank? Plz do. 🙂
— Kathy Onarheim (@konarheim) May 13, 2015
@techsavvyed Ben, if you wait long enough @konarheim might not be able to resist and do it herself 🙂 #ds106
— Mariana Funes (@mdvfunes) May 13, 2015
@mdvfunes @techsavvyed There goes the shrink on the couch reading minds again! How does she do it? 😉
— Kathy Onarheim (@konarheim) May 13, 2015
Looking at the sample it was point on. A great assignment for design and working on Photoshop or GIMP skills. The sample is part of an Adobe Education Lesson. (you need to set up yourself as a member to get access to – free to join)
I had some time so decided to take the challenge from @mdvfunes (Mariana Funes) and @techsavvyed (Ben Rimes). I also totally agree with Ben in completing something myself before asking others to do similar tasks. Which is probably why I felt so compelled to complete this after opening my beak and suggesting he submit it to the assignment bank. I hope he does try it as well – I would love to see what he comes up with creates.
Originally a lesson for middle and high school students the instructions require a size of canvas and other parameters. There is also a pre-established list of movie combinations to choose from, most likely to keep students working in a lab situation over a week. A classroom situation is not always the best for creating. 50 minutes at a crack of starting up and shutting down. Someday classrooms will change. I think students in a week-long unit an hour at a time have an added burden in creating. Just think of what they might do if allowed to follow their own creative clock! Okay – back to the work….
I decided to use Roman Holiday and National Lampoon’s Vacation as my Movie Mates.
Finding various posters and images for each movie I settled on about 3 from each that had pretty good graphics to start. I used the BluRay cover for Vacation as it was more to the style of the Roman Holiday posters and a better match for combining. Next was pulling out the objects that I thought I could use in a new rendition of a meld. Each object was cut, blended, shaped, saved and copied to a working canvas. I did most of it by sight and sense using layers for each object, text block and the background.
I found a shared template for movie poster credits that helped with creating the text style for the credits. As I was looking for some advice on creating the credits box I found a great WIKI on graphic design that includes a section on movie posters. I probably should have reviewed this first – but now have it bookmarked for a next creation.
I have two versions of the poster. Still not totally happy with the layout. BUT – I am going to put this one to rest at this point and move on to adapting the task to creating a movie poster for the Burgeron Family Summer Trailer gathering this summer. My thought is to combine Bernie Burgeron (my character) with some of the others in the family and their stories from last summer leading to the Fairytale festival this year. We will see if this comes together or not…..
Thanks for the challenge Ben and Mariana – it was a fun few hours. I’d rate this assignment as 3 stars – maybe 4 if there was more tied to a genre or character.
