Week 4

Assignment: This week we had to come up with the final draft of our mash-up which was a combination from a lincoln era photo and a current photo. We had to edit the image that we created last week to stronger portray the message that we wanted to get across along with cleaning up the photoshop work.

Craft: Using Photoshop I shanged the shirt that I had Lincoln wearing. To do this I used the paint brush to make the shirt represent the school colors of U of I. Then I added the logo on the shirt to cover the design that had been there previously. I also colored the towels blue and orange to add to this theme of supporting the school. after coloring the towels I added a gradient to the towels to cover up some of the differences in color. I also added a logo to the hamper. Finally I used paint and blur to fix the color of the face along with reduce the wrinkles on Lincoln's old face to match his young body.

Compostion: The first thing that the eye is drawn to now is the t-shirt because the color and logo make it stand out in the white and black photo. The next thing that my eye moves to is Lincoln's face because it looks weird next to the long hair. Third an dfourth the eyes look at the other towels and the blackhawk logo. I made the blackhawk logo smaller so that it would not draw attention away from Lincoln's face or the Illinois logo which I wanted to be a bigger focus. The outer edges of the picture is glanced at but is not as relevant as the large centered person which is clearly the focus of the image.

Concept: I put Lincoln in an Illinois t-shirt because I found it likely that he would show pride in his state school. I also colored the towels orange and blue to show off that school spirit even more. I went with the logo of the chief and the team blackhawks because I found it almost ironic because Lincoln fought against and killed many Native Americans and fought in the Black Hawk War of 1832. At the same time this irony is occuring I also put Lincoln in the place of an average college student doing laundry. Lincoln appears to be laid back with the long hair but at the same time organized by seperating his laundry. I could see Lincoln having lots of school spirit especially for an Illinois school. I like this picture because of the satirical side.