Movie Posters Response

Most of my recent movies have become my all time favorites, so I'm just going to make a list of ten movies (or movie series), instead of dividing them into recent and all time favorite.

- The Harry Potters
- Lord of the Rings Trilogy
- Avengers
- Pitch Perfect
- The Chronicles of Narnia
- Letters to Juliet
- Ice Age
- Soul Surfer
- The Hobbit
- Open Season

Ideas:
- Avengers: the tesseract
- Pitch Perfect: microphone or pitch pipe
- Ice Age: the acorn
- Open Season: the teddy bear
- The Hobbit: a pipe

I change my mind a lot, so by the end, I might have completely different ones! But this is a start.

Sculptural Typeface

Handwritten Typeface

Digital Typeface

Typefaces Writing Prompt

I realized that I never did this before I started this project, so I'll write it at the end :)
For my digital typeface I utilized negative space. I took a standard font, made it white, and highlighted it with paint splatters of all different colors. This creates a playful feel, and also makes for a clear, concise, easy to read font. For my handwritten font, I pictured a strip of paper that I would fold to make the letters, and then drew it out. It is colored like the sides of the paper were different colors, to give it more clarity. It is clear, and playful at the same time. It has a calm beauty to it. For my sculptural, I'm going for something that's crazy, something that no one has done before. I'm not quite positive yet, but I might cut the letters out of paper, and leave them half attached so they stick up, or I might carve them out of pumpkins, I'm not sure. All of my fonts are easy to read, yet they look good and are pleasing to the eye.

A Composition

K Composition

Helvetica Letters

Helvetica

I actually enjoyed this movie. I have always liked fonts, typefaces, and letters, so this was right up my alley. I like they way that the letters work together and flow seamlessly into something that doesn't even stand out. Mostly, we just read what the letters say, not focus on the letters themselves, so it was cool to learn in depth about a typeface that we see everywhere. I didn't realize how much Helvetica is in the world, how popular it is. I know that it is one of my favorites, and it's so simple, yet so beautiful. It can make things come alive, mostly because of it's simpleness. What I also thought was interesting and something that I hadn't thought about before was the spacing in between the letters. I just thought that, well, they just sat next to each other. But there is a science as to how far apart they are, and how well they fit together. It must be quite something to adjust the spacing of every single letter combination possible, so that everything works together. It was also interesting how some people devote their whole lives to letters, and to typefaces, and they get super excited about their work. I also liked the guy at the end who was talking about how the fonts can be just as expressive as the words that they're spelling, like the word "sunshine" wasn't sunny, and so on. Overall, I found this movie very interesting, and full of stuff that I've never really thought about before. It's a science, but it's an overlooked science.