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ENTRY (Title: Reflection on “Poetry Poster”). Answer the following (150-word
minimum for EACH ANSWER).
1.
Compare the ways in which the final version
of your design is more effective (or, perhaps, less effective) than your
earlier draft. Make sure to consider purpose, audience, and language
conventions.
2.
Explain how your design uses more than words
to achieve your purposes. Consider layout, design, headers, images, fonts,
color and other graphic elements.
3.
Describe the processes you have used
effectively in composing the final draft that you believe are worth repeating
when you do another project. Consider planning, collaboration with peers, class
critiques, viewing models of successful and unsuccessful posters, using library
resources, revision techniques, editing techniques, and the timing of your
drafts.
The final version of my design is more effective than the numerous early drafts in how it is now more visually effective and original.
Our very first draft (see previous post) had photos that were very cliche' and that everyone has pretty much seen before. After doing a complete turn around on our idea, we created an original piece of work that represented our poem in a unique, interesting way.
The final version was more visually effective because after hearing feedback on our beginning drafts of our new idea, and after learning how to use photoshop better, we were able to make the pieces of paper much more realistic, and the believability of our poster helped to convey our message in a professional way.
2. Our design uses more than words to convey the message of our poem because each choice we made for our layout, fonts, and colors was intentional to bring out the most of our poem. The dark setting with the fire helps to tell the audience immediately that this poem is a more intense, dark poem. The burning of paper pieces tells the audience that someone is perhaps angry or upset and that drives the curiosity of the reader to wonder why.
3.The processes that we have used effectively in composing the final draft would be class critiques, viewing models of successful and unsuccessful posters, and various editing techniques. The class critiques were the most beneficial form of feedback, because we were able to here many opinions at once and to here ideas being juggled back and forth until we came up with a good solution. The models of successful and unsuccessful posters were good frames of what to shoot for and what to avoid when we were first starting out. Then, the various editing techniques we used in gimp (knock-off photoshop) helped improve the poster, and the longer we played around with gimp we learned to make the photo more realistic.
All in all, we've had nearly ten different drafts, some with very drastic changes and others with minor. After all of these revisions I think that my group has finally pulled together a great piece of work.
Our very first draft (see previous post) had photos that were very cliche' and that everyone has pretty much seen before. After doing a complete turn around on our idea, we created an original piece of work that represented our poem in a unique, interesting way.
The final version was more visually effective because after hearing feedback on our beginning drafts of our new idea, and after learning how to use photoshop better, we were able to make the pieces of paper much more realistic, and the believability of our poster helped to convey our message in a professional way.
2. Our design uses more than words to convey the message of our poem because each choice we made for our layout, fonts, and colors was intentional to bring out the most of our poem. The dark setting with the fire helps to tell the audience immediately that this poem is a more intense, dark poem. The burning of paper pieces tells the audience that someone is perhaps angry or upset and that drives the curiosity of the reader to wonder why.
3.The processes that we have used effectively in composing the final draft would be class critiques, viewing models of successful and unsuccessful posters, and various editing techniques. The class critiques were the most beneficial form of feedback, because we were able to here many opinions at once and to here ideas being juggled back and forth until we came up with a good solution. The models of successful and unsuccessful posters were good frames of what to shoot for and what to avoid when we were first starting out. Then, the various editing techniques we used in gimp (knock-off photoshop) helped improve the poster, and the longer we played around with gimp we learned to make the photo more realistic.
All in all, we've had nearly ten different drafts, some with very drastic changes and others with minor. After all of these revisions I think that my group has finally pulled together a great piece of work.
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