Collage Attempt pt. I

In Multimedia Design class, our latest assignment is to assemble a 10" x 10" collage.

The context of the project are that the collage will be eventually used as a CD cover and label for a musician or group.

The collage is to be abstract and attention is to be paid to the feel of the piece (you need to have a mood that you are attempting to convey).

Ideally, the mood created by the piece will reflect the genre of music you had in mind when assembling it.

I took a trial run at putting a collage together. I don't think i have done anything like this since I was about 7.

I tried to implement some design elements into this piece, and I did to a certain degree. I didn't really like the way the colors turned out.

But after revisiting the piece (since I put it together yesterday), I don't hate it as much as I did when I first finished it.


Full piece



Bottom portion



Top Portion


Lessons learned:
- don't look for more design elements after you have already started putting the collage together
- dont start actually gluing shit until you decided thats how you want the piece to look (its not really possible to un-glue)
- if you are going to make a collage - gather as many materials together as you can and then get rid of the ones you dont need - its better to have too much than too little (and be left feeling like something is missing)


I am going to make another trial run today, and then I will assemble my final piece later this week (for class on Thursday).

Eventually we will be taking this into Media Tools class to do some digital editing on it.

I'm not too much a fan of the abstract anymore, but the creative process involved in this is soothing.

Somehow.

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