Food Photo Project

Our last class project was to photograph food for an advertisement, menu or article in a food magazine. The class members printed their versions and they were hanging in the hallway. The instructor took them down and he made 11 large prints. But there are 19 students in the class. My picture was not printed. Another student made several trips to an Italian sandwich shop to photograph a meatball sub. Each week the instructor had various  things he wanted changed. I think he had to eat 4 meatball subs. Bottom line. His meatball sub is no longer on the wall. The wall is for the entire class. It is not a juried competition.

Horizontal Format Posters for TV Monitor Rejected

I made a few minor adjustments before summating the electronic versions I talked about in the previous post. They were rejected.

He wasn't happy about the way I made the posters look like a spread from a textbook outlining the course.

He didn't want the theatrical posters around part of the design.

Here is the layout that  has been accepted.

I was sorry to see the theatrical posers omitted. I thought it was important to demonstrate the large number of classic films in each genre.

Film Class Posters for the Fall Semester

I've designed some posters for Rob Hahn's film studies class on the the 1960's. The original posters were designed in portrait format and are in several places on campus. 

The library wants to put a digital version of the posters on the monitor screen  by the main desk. The posters were reconfigured for a 16:9 format. Since each image will only be on the monitor 25 seconds, the descriptive paragraph was removed. The theme was chapters of a textbook. The brief description of the chapter helps get out the message that there is more to film studies than watching movies. 

There is no prerequisite for the film study classes at Saint Louis Community College and they are taken as GenEd classes by most of those enrolled in the class. Only a few are in film production, script writing, or have taken the basic film appreciation class and know about formal analysis. Some students, especially the older non traditional students think the instructor is going to be like Robert Osborne and give an introduction, and then after the movie all they have to say is how they liked the film and the acting performance and he will give them an A. 

To see the entire series of posters and digital images in a larger format click here to scroll through the Design set on my Flickr site.

Route 66 Revisited

I have taken so many photos of the tourist attractions on Route 66. They tend to have a similarity of the past being glorified and trying to be revived, while a few miles away on the Interstate is the modern America. I took this photo in Tucamcari, New Mexico, that shows what has happened to a significant part of 66.