Guelph Multicultural Festival

My multicultural festival poster is clear and simple in that I used few colours and do not have a complicated design going on. The font may be a little hard to read at first but I believe that it gives the poster a "multicultural" look and is not too difficult to make out. Having such a warm red look to my poster I believe that it will draw peoples attention because people like bright recognizable colours and symbols, ie. Canadian flag. Having the flag on an angle over the red and white gradient makes the poster that much more interesting rather than a traditional horizontal flag. By spreading out the words in different corners of the image makes it easy for the viewer to distinguish the different titles. Since the festival is in Guelph I thought it would appropriate to use a Canadian flag, even if other countries people are looking at the poster they will most likely live in Canada and recognize the symbol. I chose to include the linking arms to show "living together". I wanted a black, brown, white, male and female hand portrayed to demonstrate the "one world" theme.

Media Captures

*I was going to hand in my rubric Friday but needed it to finish the project. No marks will be deducted for this :) !

Part 1:

Photojournalism Ethics

As media becomes a bigger and bigger part of society, the need for restrictions on Photojournalism will become increasingly important. The rules that photographers should live by are simple I believe. I feel that if the photographer would not like a picture of themselves in the certain objective situation then they should not publish it. Although, this is highly unrealistic in today’s world where photographs can be worth large amounts of money. Either way the photographer should put themselves in the shoes of the person in the picture, we are all humans deserve privacy and do not like our lives on display for others enjoyment. There is a time and place for media to capture their images at events and gatherings where the model would be expecting pictures.

I think having a code of conduct is necessary to keep photographers from crossing the line of what gets displayed in the public’s eye. Simple ethical boundaries would begin to get crossed almost immediately and the results would be tragic for many people’s lives whether they are in the media or not. In our media today there is a line that is vaguely visible and is being pushed constantly and I believe if we keep going too far beyond a certain point the aspect of Photojournalism will itself into trouble or have to be reconsidered totally. Ultimately it comes down to what we accept as a society and when we will decide that enough is enough and where to draw our ethical boundaries.

 

Part 2:

Image 1



This manipulative angle was aimed to promote a Liberal vote out of it's viewer. Having the high school students in approxamitly 2/3 of the picture and clapping poses a positive attitude. Leaving the posters and table to around 1/3 of the picture. Students are always looked at in a broad sense as beibng innocent and important because they are the future. The Liberal brochures demonstrate that Frank Valeriote is getting involved and is concerned about our students. It is not directly stating to vote Liberal but the brochures are obviously the focal point of the image. I kept the tight cropping about the students heads and table to keep the focus on the relavent information. I believe this picture is professional to be published but only by a pro Liberal stance.

Image 2

This birds eye view of the assembly shows the attentive audience, various political party leaders and focal point speaker at the podium. I did not intentional make the focal point the podium but the more I refer back to the image I realize my attention is drawn to the Lourdes L in the general middle of the picture. We get a diverse dimension of the picture by the blurry person at the bottom of the picture and the railing behind him. This does show the birds eye view and makes the picture more interesting. I wanted to keep the candidates to make it more clear what the event was about. Similarly, I chose to crop tightly around the VOTE poster and Canadian flag, just to subconsciously show that we are promoting voting in Canada and not America or another country. Finally, I chose to crop some of the audience out to only keep relevant people with no clutter around the edges. I believe my first image is better suited to be published than this one just because it looks a lot more professional and is directly trying to manipulate something. 



Vote Poster

My design for the vote poster played on the Nike "Just Do It - Nike" slogan and did this by replacing just to must. By having Must Do It - Vote it is getting the message across as simple as it can be. You must do it, you must vote. I believe this is appropiate for our target audience because teens can easily relate to the Nike slogan and be drawn to read it rather than an unfamiliar image. Also subconciously if Nike believes in voting than some teens will believe in voting and be enticed to. I chose to keep the background black and grey so that the red and white on the letters would stand out and bring the familiar colours of the Canadian flag to mind. These colours are also a familiar image and will clarify that this is a Canadian ad for Canadian voting. I also decided to change the "2011 Elections" to red and white to keep the same tone throughout the image. I found that having a simple background with only two colours and straight lines was more powerful than a complex colourful one that was distracting. My original image only consisted of the one vote square but I thought the image was to plain and did not have enough colour to stand out. So by copying a few more squares and gradually increasing the size it drew more attention to the poster because of the inccrease in red.

Poetry Assignment

The main theme of my picture was colour. After finding the colourful locker image I decided to create a fun instinctive view of school and stress the simplicity. The apple and lockers do have the same colour tone and I tried to use it to minimize on the blue colours that in a way did not blend in so much. But they do stand out and draw your attention in many different directions. I agree that words could have been placed better but I was very limited with the linear and horizontal patterns that had occurred in the picture. One thing I did really was the 2011, having it diagonal on the straight section of the lockers blending nicely. Having all these simple images incorporated into one simple picture represents different aspects of our school.

Out of this picture I chose to eliminate the background and keep the stack of books with an apple on top. They gave the opportunity to place words on the spines of the books. I believe this was a creative way to use the extra space. I original started the project with this as my background and planned on having other images pasted onto the chalk board. But when I found the locker image I decided to go with a very colourful outstanding image. Having the apple in my final image gave it a very fun sort of simple instinctive view of high school. I tried to use simple symbols that are associated with high school so that the image would demonstrate clarity of being a book associated with school.

I wanted to have something included that represented our faith here at Our Lady of Lourdes. On the apple there was a darkened circle that already stood out and once I faded this I was able to drop the cross behind the apple and sudely incorporate some kind of Catholic symbol into the image. The meaning I wanted to get across regarding this cross was our faith here at Lourdes, for example school masses. This is a key component that I believed should be represented.

As stated the multi colours were suppose to represent our ethnic diversity here at Lourdes. The white stickers I found irrelevant so I removed them. I didn't want a lot of lockers in the picture; I wanted them bigger to stand out more. So, once enlarged and in place I removed the unpleasant floor and roof. Having colourful lockers instead of normal depressing ones lightened the mood of the picture. Our school is so multi cultural that it would be unjust to not show this in some way.

The final image I incorporated into this scene was a sky to replace the sky. I wanted something that was not immediate to a school setting. Now that you have stated "freedom" that is what I believe I was subconsciously aiming for, the gateway to the "real world" in a sense. Whether it was the freedom of your night at 2:50 or the freedom of graduating. It is only a small portion of the picture but it defiantly has a lot to do with what is after high school.