Why i have done what i'v done

Marilyn Monroe

I used her because.....

• shes know by everybody, i dont think you could find anybody above 16 who doesnt know who she is and what she looks like.
• She was fake, but a good fake. She was very clever and just pretended to be a dumb blonde cause she knew thats what was going to make her famous, and it worked she went from orphan to biggest female star of all time.
• That skirt thing she did is a very well known thing and she recreated it on the red carpet at the premiere of the film i believe (from what i have seen in photos)
• alot of her quotes were about being fake in one way or another.
• she was tasty

the red quote carpet

• i dont know were the red carpet quote idea came from, it was a light bulb moment and i was glad to see the back of the mask idea so as soon as i had the idea i was happy to go with it.
• its very typographicly strong
• it still used my fame is a mask that eats into the face concept but more subtly

The red rope things at the side

• because all movie premieres seem to have them
• and because i thought having the fame is a mask quote as the red rope would good

The colours and graphic style

• The main reason is this is what it looked like in my head when i had the idea
• I used the colours to keep it simple and cause they are really strong
• Its typographicly strong

Things i would change?

• Having the idea in time to enter it

DONE!

I have made a few minor alterations to the layout and smoothed some bits out on marilyn but you proboly couldnt tell at a small size.

I hated this brief until i had this idea, but its one of my favorite pieces of design that i have done, i want to get this printed at door poster size for my bedroom at a later date.



Mike saves the shadow

After 3 hours of playing with the f....shadow, i asked mike to have another go at it, and a new more complicated way of making the shadow transparent was found that worked.

I dont know why i couldnt slide the opacity bar down a few percent like i have done countless times before but it wasnt ever going to happen. What should of taken a few seconds took up quite a few hours.



The shadow

I wanted to put a shadow on Marilyn and it looked good, but for some reason every time i made it transparent the whole image went to shit, all the edges went jaggy and the colour saturated.

 I tried doing it in all the software on all about 4 computers (pc and mac) and it was having none of it so the shadow will have to be pure black because i think the image needs it.

see the before and after below