1. On the poetry poster project, we had two versions of first draft since we have very different ideas about how to make the poster. So Tianxiao and I designed a poster that is totally different from the final draft. The title of the poem is “Nothing Gold Can Stay” and the content of the poem mentioned nature, flower and leaf. So we focused on an natural expression of pass of time. We used a series of picture about how a couple change from the youth to their death, which is a kind of unavoidable and natural expression of pass of time. The final draft was a picture of combination of a real tree and a tree-looking bomb cloud. Its conception is much more eye-catching than the first draft done by Tianxiao and I. The combination of the tree and the bomb cloud showed the coexistence of beauty and destruction. At the first glance you might think it is just a picture of tree, but when you look closer, you find it’s actually a half tree and half bomb cloud. It is a astonishing design. We cut out the distracting trees behind the main tree and used the other side of the same tree in the first draft done by Wayne, Sophia and Caleb, so that it looked cleaner and more eye-catching than their first draft. We also adjusted the position of texts, added border to the word “GOLD”, and modulated color of the repeating word “LEAF” so that the texts fitted better in the background. The final draft is suitable for any kind of audience since the poster combined two kinds of most contrast things, the beauty and the destruction together, which is simple and emphsizes the theme of the poem.
2. When you firstly see our poster, you will think it is just a normal tree picture. But as you look at it carefully, you will realize that half of the picture is a huge bomb clous! Generally speaking, we used two pictures of contrast colors. The colored tree and the black-and-white bomb cloud not only caught the audience’ eyes but also emphsized the theme of the poster, “nothing gold can stay.” We did lots of photo shop to cover the distracting brances in the original tree picture. The branches in the original poster could confuse many audience. And the height of the tree and the bomb cloud was adjusted with care so that they look harmoneous. The golden leaf and the golded words “leaf” correlated with each other and their colors are match. By adjusting the text’s color, the audience see the word “Gold” and “Leaf” the first, which implied the content of the poem and poster.
3. When we were designing the poetry poster, we had two very different ideas and both seemed feasible. So we divided our group into two smaller parts and each part took charge of the display of one idea. Both parts provided a first draft. We compared the two drafts and chose one to continue working on with. The result turned out to be satisfying because we spent the same time but had two choices. And the colision of thoughts not only showed more interesting ideas but also inspired every group member to come up with important improvements to our final draft. I think I will choose to work independently at first and then combine each person’s work if we encounter an division in ideas while we work in groups. This process is worth repeating because it is efficient and really fruitful. Sometimes it just turns out to be that the result is different from anyone’s imagine and surprising.
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