Evaluation

For this assignment, we were told to create a movie poster based on the 7 Sins. To start the assignment, we were first asked what sort of influence or help we were going to base our pieces of work from, I chose to use Michael Oswald, an artist known for his ability to edit images and completely alter the appearance of his models so that they may look like monsters or robots, and to do this, he never uses filters or effects and creates all his work through the use of paintbrush, pencil and other such tools which I thought was really interesting as it was almost giving the artist a challenge when it came to creating his images by limiting his use of tools and abilities and this can add to the unrealistic and otherworldly appeal of his images.

Once the artist was chosen, I then had to come up with the idea, and with image manipulation being one of my weaker subjects; this was probably the hardest part. So to start, I decided to list off the sins and try and come up with an idea that would look effective and not be too straining on my skills in the subject, I originally looked at Wrath, however I then realized that this sin was also being looked at by the majority of my classmates so I decided to go with a Sin that would be different and far from the norm. I looked at Sloth but after trying several attempts, I realized that my best attempt was very mediocre looking at best and this was not what I wanted so I decided to look at several other sins. I eventually drew up scamps for each sin and I then went to choose from there, after small speculation, I then decided to stick with Gluttony, a sin that was simple and yet far from the norm. When it came to drawing up the plans for the final image, I wanted something that had some sort of social or political commentary, something that could reach out to those viewing the poster, it was here that I wanted some sort of tie in with McDonalds.

Once this was all done, I eventually began to start the final poster, to do this I grabbed several images related to McDonalds and hell and I began to cut them out and put them together, once this was done, I began putting effects onto the layers to make the image more shocking and demonic. After this was done however, it still felt empty, something about the image wasn’t quite as interesting as I had hoped. To fix this, I then began to place real images of bloodied hand prints and spray to make the image even more shocking and a dead cow, this was something that would definitely catch the viewers eye and make them think twice about eating a McDonalds which was the exact feeling that I wanted my image to create. After this was all done, I then added a title and a hellish McDonalds background to add to the movie poster effect.

Overall, I rather happy with the outcome of the image but I still feel that there was much improvement and change that could have been made but I feel that these improvement would be done if I had a larger variety in skills with photo manipulation. But otherwise, I felt that with the skills I possessed, this was a pretty good attempt at creating a poster based on the 7 Sins and I would definitely be willing to try this assignment out again should it ever be given out again.