Visual Literacy

In 7th period, we were assigned by Mrs. Sanderl to choose a word and fold pages of a book.  This project took a while to finish because I had to restart twice. Its a little hard at first but once you get used to doing it then it becomes easier. This project is called book folding which was created by Isaac Salazar and he has been creating them since 2009. Visual Literacy is the ability to interpret the word and present it into the form of an image. This assignment is an example of visual literacy because we folded pages into a word and people can try to figure out the meaning. 

I did one book and chose the word "Art" because I love to do different types of artwork and the font matched because its simple. I think that the font made the word Art stand out because the letters are bold and easy to read when you look at it. For the book, I folded about 115 pages.

Overall, I believe that my book turned out pretty good. I had to restart 2 times and on my 3rd try, it finally turned out the way I wanted it to look like. At first, I was a little frustrated because I would forget to mark where I left off.  If I were to do this project again, I would chose the word "Create" with a cursive font.

Movie Poster Promo

In G.T. class we were assigned to create a movie trailer and movie poster. Our team decided to name the movie trailer "Letters to John". The main characters in the poster is Andrea(Leleaka Anakalea) and John(Gabriel Sifuentes) her boyfriend. In the movie poster, Andrea and John are sitting down on the dock and that is one of their favorite places together.

The movie poster includes the movie title, reviews, character names and media production. We chose to name the movie trailer, "Letters to John" because its about a girl named Andrea and she is stranded in her own perfect world but suddenly, her boyfriend John goes missing. Andrea receives a letter from John saying that he is okay, after that, Andrea decides to write a letters to John to help him with his depression. The production company is called Dreamworks and I added reviews from movie critics to the movie poster. Kerning is used to adjust the spacing between letters. Kerning is very helpful to anything that includes text. If the font of your text make the letters overlap each other, then you can use kerning to space them out.

The layers and effects that I used in my poster had a big impact on my final product. I made the background brighter with a blurred effect. I made the outline of Leleaka and Gabe have an outer glow effect so they would stand out more. For the text in the poster, I chose to go with brown and white because those were the two colors that stood out the most with the blurred background.