Major Project of the First Quarter, Number Two

Today, I just finished the "Sign Project" we had.  Basically what it was was to create a poster that advertises a certain product or service.  We had to pick two fonts that we liked to use in this project.  I picked was Vivaldi for a more fancy and formal font, mostly for headings, and Segoe Print, for less formal and descriptive and informative text.  The main purpose of the project was to learn how to do fonts, which is why they are such a big deal in this post.  We had to sketch out the ideas we had for the project, and get it checked off by our teacher.  I asked him if I could do it on the computer, and he said yes, as long as I did the idea planning and sketching on paper, since the point of the project was writing in different fonts.  I started with this idea...

Don't mind the sharpie that bled through the page.

Basically, my intention was to make an ad advertising vacations to Mars (The final frontier!) for only $10,000,000.  This is the basic idea I had, nothing much to see here.

The light pencil marks don't show up very well, unfortunately.

Now that this is closer to the final piece, I'll give a bit more explanation behind my motives.

On the bottom of the page is a long and short picture I found of a crater on Mars, which I would put the text "Epic landscapes" over, as to show the sights that they could see if they would go on the vacation.  I also thought it was a great idea for a base, to hold it all together.

To the top-right of that is a picture that a rover took looking put over Mars, with the text "Plenty of ROOM!", as to show the viewer that they would have plenty of Mars to go around, without pollution or restrictions.

In the center slight-left is a nice picture I found of Mars, a good one for the main focus.  Over that I would put the main headline "Mars; The final frontier!"

In the top-right corner was another picture I found of Mars.  Only problem was that it was fairly blurry, making it a great filler and fairly subtle place to put the name of the fake company, "Interplanetary Travel, Inc.

Right above the crater picture on the bottom is the text "A 6 month vacation; for only $10,000,000!"  Nothing fancy there.

To the left-center of the page, above previously mentioned text, was a place for any details that I wanted to include.

And above that, in the top-right corner, was the phone number "1-800-PLANET" and the website address "InterPlanetary.com".

The background behind all this would be a picture of a spiral galaxy, with the center hidden behind the main Mars image, as to give it an interest feel, and to draw the viewers' eye to the picture.

Here is the final product.  I really like the way it turned out.  Usually I have a great idea, but I have trouble making it look right.  This one worked out pretty good.  The text seems pretty simple, which to me makes the whole thing seem a bit cheesy.  Two other problems I have with it is the white spot underneath the main Mars picture.  I don't know why or how it got there, I couldn't fix it.  The other problem I have is that I think that the main Mars image is a slightly subtle, in a negative way; it should be brought out a little more.  Other than that, I think it's decent, at best.


That concludes this post.  I know I promised another post yesterday, but I didn't have the time I thought I would to get around to it.  I might be able to get around to it tomorrow, however.