Re: Project 2

Brittany:

Nice concept! I love the font you used for the titles, and the way you made the rat. I don't mind that the text edges don't align to the shape of the objects and in fact kind of like it that it runs off, but the Shutter Island poster looks a little plain: when I was scrolling down to look at it I was expecting to see a complex rather than just one lighthouse, since the lighthouse is off-center. My main issue is that without anything else to ground it, the lighthouse looks like it's floating: the rat seems to be grounded by the curve of its tail and the hat is perfectly fine floating in mid-air, but the lighthouse seems like it needs something more, like maybe a few extra buildings beside it (idk, whatever the asylum has). I'm also not sure what those black marks are near the top--are they supposed to be windows? A hidden message? I can tell from the shape of the lighthouse that it's a lighthouse, but the windows/hidden message/whatever distract the eye from the actual message. Also keep in mind that for poster information you will need the date (time optional) and location of the movie viewing, and the name of the director. I agree with Shana that the credits text is distracting, and since you don't need it I'd get rid of it and just use the AFI logo and maybe the WB logo, along with the viewing information.

Shana:

I love your illustrations! Only problem is that when I tried to get a closer look at posters 1 and 2, they all linked to a larger version of the Pee-wee poster? (Not sure if that's an issue with the files or with Blogger, though I'd be willing to bet on Blogger.) I like your concept with the colored illustrations vs. whitish-grayish, and I like the idea of having Tim Burton's name broken up among the three posters, though I'm not sure if this would be confusing to someone not familiar with the movies: I don't know much about Pee-wee, so if I saw just his poster alone I wouldn't know what "Ton" meant, and wouldn't associate it with Tim Burton because I didn't know until this class that he directed Pee-wee (though I do recognize the font--Burton's Nightmare, right?--so maybe I'd be all right). The size and opacity of the text also take the focus away from the illustrations and the other text, which should be emphasized more strongly than Burton's name, and make the name snippets seem like an unnecessary distraction. Maybe it would be better to have "Tim Burton presents" directly above the titles, with the top aligning to the location text?