The sheer moment when a 1,000 year old dragon has internet access and knows modern internet language
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This was the first story and graphic I created for the six-word story assignment where we were tasked with picking six words as well as images and font that conveyed a story. I chose a quote from one of Sylvia Plath's poems since to me it seemed interesting in a way that I could play with not only the conceptual elements of the poem and words but with the overall aesthetic and visual relations, I felt fit with the poem. When searching for images I came across this image of an empty plastic glove holding a bouquet and felt that it related nicely with the words bodily, flesh, and organs that I had in my word map. It encapsulates this absence of the body while still implying the body in the empty glove referencing death in a way relating to the theme of mortality reflected in the poem. I felt that the flowers were also significant in this way as flowers are symbolic of life changes commonly used in weddings, birthdays, and funerals. Flowers are symbols of mourning and represent the immortal nature of the human body as reflected in this poem. I chose to fade the picture to make it look more like an illustration to give it a vintage and old feel as relates to the almost creepy diction used in the poem. The illustrated quality of the flowers then lent itself to a rounder more organic typeface that again connected with the organic nature of bodily forms. When I set out to do this project I originally wanted to include some imagery of bones or skeletal structures, however, I felt that adding too much more to my graphic would compromise the simplicity that I was striving for, do you agree or not?
For my second story and graphic for the same assignment, I went with a short story that I had found online that to me had this interesting ominous feel that I wanted to play with in relation to images and font. In my word map, I started with words like fire and destruction and transitioned to exploring the connotations of the word haystack leading to farmhouses. Because of this, I used an old polaroid picture I found of an old farmhouse that has this very ominous, lost-in-time feel. In the background, I used a photo of fire adding that destructive element of the story in the graphic without actually showing the house burning down or any destruction taking place. I instead only imply destruction leaving the viewer questioning hitting home the ominous and mysterious feeling that this story encapsulates. I faded the image of the fire in the background to match the polaroid on top to blend the images as well as centered the polaroid giving it the main focus and drawing your eye to the sad-looking white house in the picture rather than the bright flames that surround it. When choosing the font for this graphic I wanted something haphazard and human in the story. After all, the person in the story burns down the haystack in order to find something lost. The handwritten font in this way introduces the human within the story who is performing the action. The messy scrawled handwriting font I felt fit nicely as it looks as if someone quickly left a note, something may be left on the fridge with a magnet, reminiscent of a clue of some sort to the mystery this graphic creates. I had a hard time deciding on believable handwritten fonts and was considering making my own. Do you think the font fits well with the images and that it looks natural and human not too computer generated?
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