C Studio Mini: Project 2, ReelAbilities

Emily Liu
3 min readSep 20, 2021

First draft with an image:

Photos I Chose

I watched the trailers and picked stills.

Criteria:

  • compositions which garner intrigue, curiosity
  • mood, emotional
  • brings you closer, makes you want to read more

Drafts

I made a grid:

The two I’m choosing to go ahead with:

How they Printed: (C studio lighting, 10PM)

The color really washed out/got muddy, especially the reds.

Iterating

A few Days Later

Using a grid

7 cols, 14 rows

Andrew pointed something out that made it all make sense to me. An odd number of cols will produce a grid with more asymmetry.

Working the text with the flow of the image

I asked Yoshi, and decided to pursue the image of the woman’s face, because the text seemed to flow with the nose more.

There does seem to be a hotspot between the pm and the nose though, in the second image. hm

Fixed. I’m done, yay

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