Project 1 Process

Overall, this project was very interesting to work on. The first hurdle I needed to get past was coming up with my stories. Admittedly, I was having trouble doing so. I ended up taking a line of lyrics from two songs by the Talking Heads for each story. Once I played around with said lyrics and got them to my liking, my mind couldn’t stop coming up with ideas for the concept. I was able to process my thoughts into word maps pretty fast after that.

Story one was a little tricky, but I thought that I could achieve what I wanted with a picture of someone looking past the camera. I set it up against a club scene as well. Bright neon lights contrast with the monotone girl. The only portion of her that isn’t monotone is her eyes, which I changed to a bright cyan to help integrate her with the scene while also “lighting them up”, so to say. I didn’t have a super clear message to convey, I just wanted to show what I thought up concerning the lyrics I edited.

Story two was very simple, it needed to be about someone’s experience with water. A bathtub would be perfect, as it is represented perfectly by the lyrics. Adding in a beach as the background adds a personalized layer to it, as I grew up right off of Sullivan’s Island, and the waters of the ocean soothes me just as a warm bath would anyone else.