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For this project, I am choosing the children’s book ‘The Giving Tree’ by Shel Silverstein. If you haven’t read it, it’s about a tree who loves a boy very much. The boy plays on the tree and hangouts with the tree everyday. As the boy grows up, he stops coming around as much and when he does he doesn’t have time to play. He comes to the tree and asks for a house, so the tree gives the boy branches to build a house. Then the boy asks for a boat and the tree gives up her trunk for the boy. Then the boy comes back in his old age and needs nothing more but a stump to sit on and rest. I think this book represents people that children look up to, like their parents or grandparents. I think there are several meanings behind the book. It has a lot to do with the environment,  not being greedy and always being thankful of people who are willing to give to you and it also shows how the tree is still happy to the end because she was able to give something to the one she loved.  The only characters are the tree and the boy. It’s a very simplistic design with white pages and black line art of the tree and the boy.  The only color in the book is on the cover. Two shades of green and one shade of red.

The above photos show the cover, and an example of one of the pages inside the book. I want to design my poster with the same simple design as the book. I will use the same green and red as the book cover too. One line that is repeated throughout the book is ‘and the tree was happy’. I think I will include that in my poster as well because it is emphasized and it seams to be the main point. Below, are my thumbnails of a few ideas I have for my poster design.

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Part 1

For the slanted Post, I selected the Ruler tool which is under the eye dropper tool and drew a line from left to right following the horizon of the water then clicked Straighten.

Part 2

To adjust perspective of an image, use the crop tool to select around the  the general area of part of the image you want to fix, check the ‘Perspective’ box and adjust the corners of your selection to crop around the part you want to six.

Part 3

For this image, I used the Magnetic Lasso tool to make a selection around the red car and around the blue car and then I dragged them into my background image that I found online. I then used the transform tool to size each car to look as realistic as I could make them.

Part 4

In Camera Raw, I used the Basic tools such as White Balance, Exposure, clarity, vibrance, blacks and lighten to adjust the original dog photo to look like the ‘dog corrected’ pdf. Then I used the lasso tool to select the dogs head and place it into the photo I found online of the other dogs looking off in the distance.

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Clip 2

Clip 1

Reflection

            I was very excited when it came to writing the treatment and script for this project. I had the vision in my head and I knew what I wanted to do.  I chose the song “Smile” by Lily Allen. It is a break-up song, but like many of her songs I enjoyed her edgy attitude that she puts in it. It’s not a typical break-up song. With a week before we left before spring break, I knew I had to get on it and find my actresses, locations, and time for recording.

            I ran into problems right away, no surprise there. All the actors I had in mind were busy with final projects, papers, and midterms. Luckily, I found a few friends from home who agreed to help me out. We found a nice day to make a trip to Fallen Timbers mall and captured the story of a girl moving on and getting over her ex-boyfriend with the help of her best friends.

            I had previously planned on shooting the hole commercial on campus at school, steeling Sic Sic signs, and going to Starbucks, but I had to change all the locations. Although this did cause some dilemmas, it turned out to tell the same story and I got the project done.