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Posters and Books | Week 5

The creative process has been very interesting when it comes to the design of the posters. I've gone back and forth about different ideas that could all work, but I've selected the one that I wouldn't just enjoy the most but the one that could use text best to design the poster and describe the concept in the best way.

Topic: I've chosen the TV show 'Psych'. It's a contemporary detective show where this guy pretends to be psychic (he's just observant) to keep a job at the police department. I've decided to use the show's font (American Typewriter Bold). I couldn't find the exact one, but I did find American Typewriter Bold 2, and it looks pretty identical to me. The TV show's color is green, so I think I could use green, black, and white.




Poster #1

This one will focus on the main character and include some of his quotes and things that are important. I'll create a pineapple (there's one in every episode, or almost every episode) out of those words. I'm not entirely sure on what elements will have which colors (so I'll have to play around with that when I spend a day on it next week). I could also have everything be black, white, and green, and have the green be the icons and words or vice-versa. 




Poster #2 

This poster will focus on the sidekick character, Gus. Something that's consistent and prevalent throughout the series is the nicknames he's called (I found a huge list of them) and he also has a blue VW bug vehicle throughout the series (it's called the BlueBerry) and I'll create the car out of the words. So, I'll have the text (or some part of the poster) be blue to identify this character. 




Poster #3

As of right now, I'm not extremely positive on what this poster will be, but I've been watching the show again, and some ideas that come to mind are flashbacks that the main character, Shawn, has when remembering things he's observed. So, it could have a thought bubble. Another idea could be a hat made out of text, because a theme between the main character and his dad is the question of "How many hats are in the room," and it gives a nod to the dad who is very relevant throughout the entire show. Another idea could be a police badge, because he's so involved with the people at the station. They also have an office and something could be pulled from that. There's a window that's shown a lot with their brand name, 'psych', on it. The second idea, I think, would be best, and I'd have to think of what type of text to include as the make up of the icon. 


Throughout the main character's detective career and his life
his father keeps this simple question in mind. 


Other 

For additional text, I think it could be interesting to somehow use the lyrics from the theme song. Some of the lyrics are "I know, you know / that I'm not telling the truth / I know, you know / they just don't have any proof / embrace the deception, learn how to bend / your worst inhibitions tend to psych you out in the end." 

As for the order of them, I think it would be the order as talked about here, but the overall order doesn't matter.

More Book Details  

Regarding the posters, the three books I'll be using are titled Sunrise, Summer and Sunset, and I think I'll be including a sun on each cover, and I think it would be interesting to have some sort of ombre cover that could represent the colors that surround the sun. I think it could also be interesting to include some sort of other icon that could represent each book that also identifies with nature that could fit in with the sun theme (like birds). I look forward to flipping through the books and grasping those key details to use on the covers. 

~Jayden

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