This is the collage I created for Digital Media Foundations 201. This was my first time using photoshop or making a digital collage. Before this project I always assumed a collage was just taking various clippings and throwing them randomly onto a piece of paper, now I know it's more just about the layers and how the come together to form a fitting aesthetic. For this collage I got a picture off the DMF website, edited out the child's face, added in a cut image of Sarah Palin's face that I thought could be appropriate to the phrase on the left hand side (the "harmonica band" line). Then I cropped the face a little bit more to fix the neck line and try to make it more natural. I made the whole photo black and white so Palin would look more similar to the photo (though I couldn't find a way to make her face look as aged as the rest of the image). Then with type I made it a mock-political election poster by writing "Sarah Palin 2012, Education for the future" in a type face that I thought would appeal to the jokes people make about Palin's militarism and add a funny contrast of serious and "down to business" type in relation to an obviously silly image. I hope not to offend anyone by this, just having a little fun. I suppose this was a way for me to give a nod and not-so-subtle reference to jibjab which is something I find incredibly entertaining.
Monday, October 12, 2009
Week 1 Blog: Ours (Collage)
This is the collage I created for Digital Media Foundations 201. This was my first time using photoshop or making a digital collage. Before this project I always assumed a collage was just taking various clippings and throwing them randomly onto a piece of paper, now I know it's more just about the layers and how the come together to form a fitting aesthetic. For this collage I got a picture off the DMF website, edited out the child's face, added in a cut image of Sarah Palin's face that I thought could be appropriate to the phrase on the left hand side (the "harmonica band" line). Then I cropped the face a little bit more to fix the neck line and try to make it more natural. I made the whole photo black and white so Palin would look more similar to the photo (though I couldn't find a way to make her face look as aged as the rest of the image). Then with type I made it a mock-political election poster by writing "Sarah Palin 2012, Education for the future" in a type face that I thought would appeal to the jokes people make about Palin's militarism and add a funny contrast of serious and "down to business" type in relation to an obviously silly image. I hope not to offend anyone by this, just having a little fun. I suppose this was a way for me to give a nod and not-so-subtle reference to jibjab which is something I find incredibly entertaining.
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I think you did a good job capturing the rough, mismatched quality we were looking for in the collage assignment.
ReplyDeleteThe hands work especially well, as does the Stencil-style typeface.