Final Project Paper

            To begin this project, I started by choosing a song based on the way it sounded, rather than its lyrics. Palace by BROCKHAMPTON has a steady beat, which inspired me to design a poster that gave the feeling of climbing. Because of this, the name of my poster is Rise. After listening to my chosen song several times, I started to sketch thumbnails as I listened. I listened to the rhythm of the song and let it guide my pencil.    
            Creating a preliminary design that satisfied me was the most difficult part of this project. After doing several sketches, I finally had one that stood out to me and I began to develop it. I wanted to have some perspective in my piece, so I decided to have small, lighter section as the center of my poster and as the color moves towards the edges it gets progressively darker. In the final poster, I added a luminous effect to the center to make it appear as if I was glowing.
            Along with the repetitive beat, the song also has a smooth, flowing rhythm. In order to represent this in my poster, I added flowing lines that travel throughout the poster, decreasing in size as they move towards the center. At first these lines were sporadic, but I decided that to better fit with the mood of the song, they should be more orderly. This also adds to the feeling of pulling towards the center in my poster and rising up.
            In the beginning of my design process, I decided that I wanted my primary color to be blue. Palace has a soothing beat that made me decide on a cool color to be the background. However, the song builds up as it goes on, eventually ending much louder that it began, so I included shades of yellow and orange to bring out that feeling.  I also employed the use of overlays to make the colors of my poster more vibrant. The song may be slow, but it isn’t sad, so if I had only used blue in the poster it wouldn’t have been representative of the mood of the song.
             As for my finished product, I am especially pleased with the color scheme. I think that it represents my song well, with both the soothing blues and vibrant oranges. I would have liked to push the perspective of my piece a bit more, but I think that it still is the feeling of looking up at the center of my piece, which was an idea I wanted to portray since the beginning of my process.