Poster process booklet

Lyric Poster YuTing Wu 16 Feb. 2018

LYRICS

BACKGROUND

SONG FACTS

Shawn Song (November 6, 1978 -- August 9, 2002) is a Taiwanese rap witer, composer and singer. He died of cancer and was only 23 years old.

He was known as the “Spokesman for the bottom of society”. with the lyrics of the dark and sad society. After his death, won the 15th Golden Melody Award for best writer of pop music category award.

The song’s melody, lyrics all created by Shawn Song. He is a great rapper.

This song is a real experience from his life. he uses music to criticize society, life and express dissatisfaction, also use music to vent his anguish and helplessness, more with music to express his desire and voice.

The “Life’s A Struggle” was wrote in jail by Shawn, he was betrayed by his friends. After he got out of the jail, Shawn look back on his life course, a lot of things to let him understand the reality and his dialy face of his daily face of the people the real look, he slowly brewed life ‘ s A struggle this song, each word is his real experience. In prison for three months, he saw the dark side of human nature, but also reflect on their own, sincere to others but for the betrayal of friends, he began to believe that friends, all kinds of things he came to life under a conclusion, that is: “The lives of a struggle.” However, he found himself in the position of life, because he knows his position, he can be free to himself, life has a lot of questions, but everyone must seriously to live, to find the answer to the question.

EARLY LIFE Shawn born in Taipei on November 6, 1978, he was interviewed as a gifted child at the age of 9 in 1987. Shawn has a passion for comics, dancing, sports, the essence of dance, in the eyes of friends he is the king of dance.

He can constantly invent new dance steps, let others secretly imitate his steps and movements. He has unlimited creativity, no formal music training, imporvisation with his real emotions.

Song Yueting allergic symptoms is serious on his teenager, the mother then sent him to study abroad when he 14 years old, Song Yueting study alone in the United States, has changed several places, in 1995 the summer vacation moved to California with his brother live together, mutual support. At the age of 19, because a friend was bullied, the battle righteousness of Song Yueting pretend Huaqing gang to intimidate others. After the incident, Song Yueting was jailed for three months and suspended for three years.

In may 2001, Song Yueting found three stages of bone cancer, fight the disease for more than a year, died on August 9, 2002 .

In 2003, Song Yueting’s mother and brother, while sorting through his belongings, found music recorded by Song Yueting on a tape recorder and released it as a record, life’ s a struggle. A large number of double rhymes are used in the song, which is the first of Chinese rap songs.

In 2004, Song Yueting won the 15th golden melody award for “ best composer of pop music” for “ life’ s a struggle”, and his mother and brother accepted the award on his behalf.

In 2005, Song Yueting’s “ feathers of Song Yueting” was released.

His creation has a profound impact on Chinese music, his works should become the future Chinese rap classic. Many rappers paid tribute to him.

VISUAL INFLUENCE

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COLOR

FONTS Helvetica Bold

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Chalkduster

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DIN Condensed Bold

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WHITE

The song’s tone is darkness, but with a little hope. So, I choose green grey as main tone color, the white and black mix up to balance it for make concept looks more harmony.

GREEN GREY

DESIGN ELEMENTS Material

Ziploc Bag and Print Font

Water

PROCESS WORK

DESIGN OPTIONS

According to the lyric, I focus According to the lyrics, I focus on the word of “Struggle”. I want to make the feeling like struggle, helplessness, so I distorted the font in order to express his theme of life, because of his life experiences, so that he lamented that life’s a struggle.

FINAL

This song is from Shawn’s life experience. From the lyrics, he wrote a story about he was betrayed by his friend and went to jail. Three months in the jail was the darkest hours in his life, so I make this concept to show that he struggled like a drowning man during that time and wanted to be reborn. For the final concept, I change the light, but there has a little light which is for symbol Shawn wanted to reborn in that time.