final

Essay

Kimberly Bradley

Message

My message in this project is the stereotypes towards the LGBT+ community. Although it has significantly changed throughout the past couple of years it's still a huge issue. Everyday I see people getting judged based on their appearance or sexual/gender identity. Personally I've never seen an issue with someone being gay or transgender or anything. I mean I myself am bisexual. And I don't care if people know. It's a part of who I am, and if people have an issue with it then that sucks. I just want people to understand some of the struggles people go through everyday when their just trying to be themselves. I want people to take a step back and look at their actions towards the people on the community. I've seen first hand people being absolutely horrible to LGBT people and it disgusts me. I hope to achieve people stereotyping less, even if it's only a few people I just want something to change. The people reading my brochure  will get my message because I have different sections for different sexual/gender identities. I wanted personal stories from people so that those who have an issue against them will understand the stuff they get put through everyday.

Media

My choice of media was a brochure. I figured this was easiest to do for my project because fliers are made to hold a lot of information on one topic while being compact. It responds to my topic because I'm able to have different sections on different things, it puts it all together easily and in the most efficient way. Granted I don't think most people are going to look at it because a lot of students just don't care to read but I still want the message out there. It could generally be displayed anywhere. There's no one place that's the perfect place it. People walk by any of the bulletin boards in the school so it could be seen from anywhere.

Creativity

Document size, shape, orientation and type of paper I use are gonna be a decent sized roll. I made it 13x19 and going landscape. I did this because my columns could be a decent width. Each one is about 3.7 inches wide and 13 tall. Which gives me a decent amount of room to write all my information I need. As I'm typing this I'm not quite sure what kind of paper I'm gonna use, probably a matte one so that both sides of it have the same texture. I made the background black and have white text so the text stood out more. I used color to make the flags for each topic and the black background made the colors stand out even more. On the front cover it's a rainbow with a quote from one of my favorite tv shows that definitely has a huge connection to my project. My use of text is a huge role to. I made the definitions bold and centric gothic font. The stories from people are in Lucinda bright and are italicized. And the little blurb on how to stop stereotyping is in a font I can't remember the name of.

Design

Mine doesn't really have a focal point, it was more an informative project then a design one. You can however move through it very easily. Each column is lined up in order of the LGBT+ community so your going in order of them and you read from top to bottom and then move on to the next one. I'd say it's balanced. It isn't overly filled with information and there isn't barley any info. It's a a nice balance. Some has more then others, some has less. It's a nice balance. There isn't a lot of variety but that goes back to it's a more of an informative thing. The most variety is in the difference of stories between people. Everyone expects people to have the same stories but it's really not the case at all. And I think I used the positive and negative space in a decent way.

Final Exam Topic

I think my final exam topic will be how Depression and LGBT goes hand in hand. Because most teens who are in the LGBT community have depression or suicidal thoughts. Granted not all LGBT youth have depression, but the majority are bullied and feel helpless. So i want to expand on the topic and bring more awareness to it. I might make a poster or a flier to demonstrate how to help them. I don't quite know what I'm going to put on it, or like how I'm going to put it all together. Im thinking maybe put stories of people in the background while giving signs or ways to help in the foreground. Im not quite sure how that will all fit together but i may use indesign to do it. Since thats what most people use to make magazine papers. So i think it would be a good way to put together all the things i want to say about it all.

1. Which filter, layer blend, or adjustment layer effect was the most important to the success of your image?
I think using a layer mask and deleting all the excess background on my pictures making it a little bit easier to blend together. I also move the layers so some stuff is overlapping. Like i moved all the fish below the titanic layer so its a little more blended together.

2. What object is the EMPHASIS in your work? How did you make it stand out?

The emphasis of this work is the scuba diver. I made it stand out more by making it the top layer so its a little bit brighter rather then being blended into the background of my work.