Poster Experiments

With my photo collection at hand, I started to try to put some of my sketched ideas to the computer screen. I wanted to make sure that I captured both the "culture" and "shiok" elements in accordance with my tagline, and thus mapped out a few ideas for my poster.

My first idea was to do a collage of various photos taken in Little India and Chinatown and put them all within the outlined shape of my roommate's jumping shot. However, while the idea seemed brilliant at first - actually executing it was much harder than I expected. Having very little experience with Photoshop - and definitely no natural eye for design aesthetics like Dr. P! - I found out that collating the photos and laying them out next to each other so that they actually looked natural was very difficult to achieve.

I thus had to scrap that idea and try the next.

My second idea is actually the reverse of the first one, i.e. that the jumping shot would be a black silhouette against the backdrop of an entire page of collaged photos. I figured that this would be easier since I would not have to cut the corners of the pictures to fit any particular curves of my roommate's jumping shot. However, after much trial and error, I once again found that it would prove much harder than expected.

And so that had to go too. With the semester inching to an end, and still without a poster ready, I was beginning to feel worried. Very worried.