Friday, 14 November 2014

OUGD403, Studio Brief 04

Studio Brief 04

To start I sketched out a few ideas that could potentially work, however I wanted to see how these would work digitally. I started with the Adobe Photoshop Interface and placed one of the quotes onto a red background with black text, it read “ONCE ONLINE, YOU CANʼT TAKE IT BACK”.

I instantly knew that this wasnʼt effective in communicating cyber-bullying effectively due to the quote giving off a broad range of meanings. Next, I came up with the idea of a gun shooting cursors, but naturally this didn't work either. I then imagined the effects of the words that ' said and came up with my idea for the type only poster. A plain typographic image in the shape of a knife on a black background, I felt this worked well however it needed an extra layer of text to communicate the cyber-bullying message. My original typographic design (left image) didnʼt work as well as my final design with the text. 

My other two poster designs worked on elements of the shock factor. The image only poster shows the detrimental effects of the aftermath of online abuse in a stripped back graphical form. The image and text poster again shows how online messages can hurt someone as ultimately the heart is associated with someones feelings. Each image was developed on both Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator. The colours red, black and white were all used as I felt that they contrasted with one another and brought the raw image forward effectively. I added the mouses on as a final feature as I felt the cursor alone wasnʼt effective enough in communicating cyber-bullying itself. I printed the images out onto A3 printer paper at first, however the black came out not as I expected so I therefore re-printed them onto better paper.


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