Reflection:
1). Do you believe your stance is clear within your poster?
My stance was that people dedicate more of their time to judging people for the illnesses they may have, and not enough actually listening and attempting to help those who need it. I think my stance is interpreted clearly within my poster. I believe the font gives it a more darker vibe, and more emphasis on the wording due to the larger size and switch in colors. The pill bottles represent the bad things being said to the person, that being the reason why they take medication in the first place. Eventually the person winds up overdosing because of the common responses and the aid they do not receive from others.
2). Do you feel like you were successful in recreating your idea digitally? If not, do you like the new visual outcome?
I feel like I was rather successful in recreating my original idea digitally, the only main difference that was pretty noticeable between the drawn draft and the final was that my draft had a girl's hand, and the change in pronouns for the heading. Overall, I'm satisfied with the new visual outcome (both the final and first version can be seen below). I managed to fit more pill bottles than the first version, and put in speech-bubbles like I had originally planned.
3).What were the changes made from your first version to your last version of the poster? Explain.
For starters, there's an obvious difference in the colors used, for the first version I had used only blue while for the last I had separated them into three different sections. I had also used three different fonts for the last version, and on the first I used only one font. Two different fonts for the heading so I could create emphasis on "Maybe I'm Better Off Dead" since I believe it was the most important part of the poster besides the actual visuals.
4). Which category do you think your project is strongest in?
I think my strength is concept, it's not confusing and it is very clear along with the images used, and the image that I provided is very powerful in my opinion. I think my the weakest could possibly be the design just because I can see how the separation of colors was not incorporated creatively like the other posters I had seen.
5).What was the most challenging part conceptually?
I think the most challenging part was trying to figure out a way to convey my stance into an actual memorable image. There are a lot of posters that mention suicide and depression, that don't have people walking away thinking about it, which is the complete opposite of what I want when people look at mine.
6).Technically?
Figuring out how to use text-wrap, it took me a while and it still looks a bit strange to me.
I feel like I was rather successful in recreating my original idea digitally, the only main difference that was pretty noticeable between the drawn draft and the final was that my draft had a girl's hand, and the change in pronouns for the heading. Overall, I'm satisfied with the new visual outcome (both the final and first version can be seen below). I managed to fit more pill bottles than the first version, and put in speech-bubbles like I had originally planned.
3).What were the changes made from your first version to your last version of the poster? Explain.
For starters, there's an obvious difference in the colors used, for the first version I had used only blue while for the last I had separated them into three different sections. I had also used three different fonts for the last version, and on the first I used only one font. Two different fonts for the heading so I could create emphasis on "Maybe I'm Better Off Dead" since I believe it was the most important part of the poster besides the actual visuals.
4). Which category do you think your project is strongest in?
I think my strength is concept, it's not confusing and it is very clear along with the images used, and the image that I provided is very powerful in my opinion. I think my the weakest could possibly be the design just because I can see how the separation of colors was not incorporated creatively like the other posters I had seen.
5).What was the most challenging part conceptually?
I think the most challenging part was trying to figure out a way to convey my stance into an actual memorable image. There are a lot of posters that mention suicide and depression, that don't have people walking away thinking about it, which is the complete opposite of what I want when people look at mine.
6).Technically?
Figuring out how to use text-wrap, it took me a while and it still looks a bit strange to me.
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