HIHI SUPER AWESOME BLOG READERS! So lol I don't know if I ever specified this but yk how you said there would only be like 2 more blog posts up on here and that would be it forever and ever :D NOPE! NOT TRUE! I MAY HAVE LIED TO YOU! IF I EVER SAID THAT! WHICH I DO NOT REMEMBER!! HELP!
I got something very important to talk about here though that I'm sure you Cambridge lads will appreciate since I haven't really touched on it much in the past :] OUR POSTCARD!! The production of our lovely print component has went through a whole lot of process ever since like week 3 of this project and I'm excited to share it all with you guys today! After this will be the critical reflection, promise :D
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WAIT I NEED TO TALK ABOUT OUR POSTCARD: THE BETA
So I believe even before spring break started, Andrew began designing the postcard! I appreciate the very early step he took into completing this thing, even though when we started Tstok didn't give us a lesson on how to make one and what's required out of it yet, it's still awesome that we got a nice lil head start on things :] On March 7th, Andrew looked around the web for some postcard templates and found this lovely little church card thingy that he thought would be perfect for the look we were trying to go for. I may have mentioned this briefly in the past but initially we wanted our postcard to look VERY similar to the card that Annie will give Otto in the beginning of our film. It would have been a nice little call back to the in universe happenings within early 2000s Florida-Kentucky :D (saying would have because it sadly did not end up happening BAHHAHAHA) but here right here we have the template that Andrew based the first draft of our postcard on! It's very business card lookin and thought it was pretty cool when they first sent it to us in the group chat.
Template! We love John Smith
Andrews very very VERY rough draft of the postcard
Again, this very rough draft was made before the lesson Tstok gave us about postcards, so there wasn't much that Andrew did yet in regards to what text had to be put on the front and back, but this nice first step had some pretty good potential :] After Tstok gave us the print component lesson, Andrew hopped back on Canva and began to make some tweaks to the very rough draft to align it better with the requirements. We had to have the title of our film, the director, the screening dates, and contact info, and that's exactly what Andrew put into this lovely version that you can see right down below us here :] He played around a bit with the colors, made a nice evil QR code, and all around made it look cooler and more on brand :D The feedback I had for this version though had to do with the fonts being used, as I thought Canva Sans wouldn't exactly match the brand and vibe of the kookiest short film of all time. But then again, this was only the second draft, so nothing's final and of course things will be changed around! Here is my lovely 2nd draft exhibition right below you super awesome blog reader!
2nd draft!
We are still going! BAHAHAH making this thing was like watching a child grow up into a functioning adult it's crazy how many stages our postcard went through. Now for the third version! After we got back from our detrimental spring break and locked back in like it was nobodies business once more, Andrew got to work on the third to last version of our postcard, which actually turned out to be the final postcard that was (supposed) to be shown in our short film! After talking to Tstok for a little bit (and when we were still planning to actually show the in universe postcard in the short), we decided to not have 1 but 2 postcards! 1 being an exact look alike to the one supposed to be shown in our piece and the other intended to look completely different from the in universe one! I liked this idea, and was excited to see the eventual final product for both.
After a couple lock in sessions, we came out with these two postcards, the front of the first, and the front of the second. As you can see, they look VERY similar because that's exactly what we were originally trying to go. Both cards have THE DEVIL IS ALIVE! on them but the difference here are the names presented in both. In the first it's Annie Christian and in the second it's my team members! I thought this was pretty cool, but definitely something was missing, and I figured that out later in production! We did end up using the first one that you see down here for the film though, and even though it ultimately got cut out to save time, we still appreciate its efforts :D Take a look!
front of the in universe card
front of the not in universe card
SECOND TO LAST IS UP BOOYAH! I made this version of the postcard quite recently, and decided to step in because Joaquin had a very specific vision for this one and I knew exactly how to execute it. At the time we were still thinking of making the first in universe postcard but obviously that will change in a little bit just you wait and see :D For this version of the postcard, I went out and dug deep into our footage and got some nice screenshots of each important character to put into the front and back. We originally intended to have all 4 characters on the back and have the original upside down cross design on the front, but after messing around for a little bit, I ultimately decided that it would be too much and not so nice on the viewer's eyes. Sooo I changed things up! I put the "bad guys" on the front of the card, Otto and Annie, and the "good guys" on the back, Mable and Issac!
After playing around with colors, formatting, and adding some artistic flare as you can see with Annie's little devil tail and Otto's emphasis marks, I sent this version of the postcard over to my group for some feedback! They told me that they thought making the characters black and white would elevate the postcard a whole ton along with aligning much better with our pre established brand. I was also recommended to make the background a dark crimson red! After playing around with a couple things again, I ended up with arguably one of the best things I've designed as of present day. I went ahead and made the characters black and white, trieddd making the background crimson red but decided to ultimately not keep it that way since I thought black brought out the reds in the text A LOT better, and changed the formatting up a tad! I added some nice spiky shapes that look like both devil horns and burning flames from hell, which I really ended up loving. Hurrah for Emi! YAYY! You can see our finished version right down here!
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Alright super awesome blog readers! That will be it for today :D! I hope you enjoyed seeing my postcard grow up into a nice functioning adult ready to be submitted real soon! As for now, I must complete my math homework and drink water or something! It's been a while since I've done that! (that was a tadc reference)
oki bai blog te amo :D
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