Project 4 | Critique Response

After participating in the critique of our posters last week, I've decided to take a completely different approach with my project. Previously, I was going to merely put some of my pictures in chronological order, but realized that this was a very literal translation of my day. Other posters that people were designing had a theme that was deeper than just what the events were of the day. The approach that I am taking is playing off of the fact that I meticulously and almost obsessively wrote down every little thing  I did on the day that I documented, including the exact time that I did it. I also took a good amount of pictures of almost everything I did, so I am using those pictures in a way that makes it seem like someone else was documenting my day (instead of me). The excitement and almost paranoia of someone following me is more ironic than anything because the day I documented was so mundane and not exciting at all.

So in order to start with this new approach, I printed off most of the pictures I took that day and pinned them up on a board. Then I placed this board with the actual notes I took that day and took photographs of that to make a scene that would make it seem like the "stalker" displayed all of the images they took while following me that day. I took a lot of pictures of this, but realized that pictures were another important part of the day, so I wanted the camera in the picture as well. Therefore, I had to take the picture with my cellphone since the camera was in the picture! I took one of these pictures into photoshop to darken the edges like they would appear on a horror/thriller movie poster.

Now I am working on placing text on the poster. I want some sort of main phrase to go on the bottom perhaps, and also some text to go on other parts of the poster as well. I have one idea where I will write the times and activities of some of the events of my day, so it shows that my day was diligently documented. I plan on having a better idea of exactly what I'm doing once I get some feedback during the next class, but I feel better about having a different theme than just taking a literal approach.

The photo I chose as my poster image (with edges darkened in Photoshop)