Lyrics & Type project poster

One of the major design elements in my poster is  line. I applied this to my letters to make them have a sense of motion.  This is also for the effect of providing the letters some characteristics.  The lyric letters and background color all came from a template I downloaded from adobe colors. later on when I decided to add some extra details to my work, I purposely made colors in the color pad that matches  and have a good combination with the template.

Which songs did you consider and what led to your selection?

I originally have three songs as my options. The first one is Mask Off, which is the one I ultimately made my poster based on. I chose this song as one of the options because it doesn’t have a complete lyric.  Its lyric is basically just a few phrases and words joined together, and it doesn’t form complete sentence, it is more of a sentence fragment. But I still chose it as one of my options because I think it will be interesting for me to make a poster for a song that only has a few words as its lyric.  My second option was 画离弦. its a classical ancient Chinese type of music.  I had planned to do a poster for this part of the lyric 你抚琵琶奏琴弦 我坐戏子楼台前. It creates a vivid scenery in the listeners mind, and in English these two sentences are saying that a person is playing a Chinese lute ( 琵琶  ) for the other person that is sitting in front of actors tower.  The lyric provides a perfect tone of a night time Chinese archaic scenery. The third song I had for my lyric poster was Come & Go by Juice WRLD and Marshmellow.  I chose this song because one of the sentences in the lyric is very motivating, and it is I try to be everything I can.  Which is why I think it can also be inspirational poster at the same time.

At last, I chose Mask Off’s lyric for the poster I made. This was a really hard decision, because it means that I will have to find a way to put all those different words or phrases into a poster that illustrate the tone of the song. But I realised  later on that this wasn’t the case. And I elaborate on that later in my reflection. So, the main reason I chose Mask Off was because it seems pretty fun and challenging to create a poster for a song that doesn’t have a complete lyric.

Detailed Development

I started off by quickly sketching out different versions of the poster.  I tried to make each poster as differently as possible in terms of style.

I got most my inspiration from the padlet sample 1. I really like the style that the poster had chosen, and it looks very simple which is why i selected as the style I am aiming for when I made my poster.

In the feedback I received from my peer on my draft for my final piece. The biggest problem in my work is that it is kind of hard for m people to see the style it is trying to show.

I combined the style of pop and ambient text to create to form the style in my poster.

My strength during the process of creating my poster is that I applied a lot of design elements to my letters and focused and focused on the quality of every details on the whole poster.

Weakness during process:

My weakness during the process of creating my poster is that I kind of got off tract with the overall style of the song I  had chosen. And the whole poster might be hard for the audience to identify the style song I had chosen based on the lyrics.

Draft:

The draft of Mask Off’s lyrics was very clear and simple. I used procreate to hand write the letter and casually drew lines and shape on the poster to give it a chill sense.

Final work:

I changed a lot of the elements in my final piece. Every word had a different theme.  I also used adobe colors to make my letters and set a style for my poster.