Week 4

Assignment: Final Draft of Mash-Up: I selected a picture from the lincoln era and a picture that I took from the modern era to mash together to convey a message.

Craft:

First i selected a picture i took outside of Saint Xavier. Then i copied in Lincoln and two of his friends. After adjusting the

 contrast and cleaning up around t

he edges i realized that nothing really in the picture lead my audience to believe it was in the modern era. So i copied a Saint Xavier sign in and made it read " Lincoln comes to SXU". This allows my audience to fully understand that he is in the modern era and is coming to a college to speak. This was only half of the picture since i did it on tabloid paper and wanted to portray the other side of lincoln. On the other side i used a picture i took in Hawaii as the background. Then i copied Lincoln and his two sons and wife, each seperatly, into the picture. I had to resize each person and adjust there colors and contrast to make it look like they were all the same. Again i didn'd get the feel of modern day so, i copied in a modern day sail boat to put in the ocean behind there family vaction picture. This all took alot of detailed erasing and alot of focus on contrast because in both sides of the picture i wanted to make sure that lincoln was the focus and not the extra things that i copied in the picture.

Compositon:

This time before selecting the two pictures i wanted to mash-up, I thought of a concept i wanted to convey and then wo

uld search for the perfect pictures to help me convey the message. I wanted to portray Lincoln's personality in todays era. I selected a picture i took of Saint xavier and mashed it with a picture of Lincoln and two of his friends and then selected a picture of Hawaii and four seperate pictures of Lincoln, two sons, and his wife.

Concept:

Unlike my first draft this final draft had a strong concept that i believe when people look at my photo can deffinatly understand what i'm trying to say. My overall concept is that if Lincoln was present today, he'd be the same man. He 

would be going to colleges and doing political speeches and expressing his beliefs across the world. On the other hand, he'd still be the family man, who would take his family to Hawaii for a vacation. The only thing i want to improve on my work if that the two pictures actually blend together so it can have the effect that these two pictures are one, just like the two sides of Lincoln (buisness/ political vs. family man) come together to make Lincoln such a great figure in history.