Since I'm a football fan, I decided to take this route in creating my lampooning project. The main idea here is to satirize as many football related themes as possible coinciding with the NFL Playoffs Wild Card Round.
Using high tech cameras, I was able to shoot really pleasing pictures of a football and my own foot respectively to incorporate into the design. The challenge here was to make these two separate shots look the part, since I wasn't able to take a picture of own my foot with high socks and cleats at school with uniform on. Taking the picture of my own foot was especially difficult, since I had to get my mother to take the picture at home with a fairly old camera and an obviously difficult angle. I thought the results ended up very well however. Using photoshop, I was also able to incorporate a suitable background for this particular design, which I will explain shortly. I used the background of field goal posts, and another image found online of NFL linemen to bring the design into "action." I really liked the fonts used by the actual magazine "Pro Football Weekly," so I decided against creating my own font for the magazine title and used theirs instead. FYI, "Pro Football Weekly" is not actually a satire read. So the idea: The overarching and most prominent design here is obviously the purple outstanding font of "Vikings Devastated." Basically what happened was: the Minnesota Vikings kicker had the game on the line, and an easy chip shot field goal to make that is usually converted over 99% of the time, in order to win the game, and he missed. The phrase, "Lace' em up, lace' em in," refers to the fact that the laces on the football were facing the kicker, which might have potentially affected the direction of the kick. I actually wasn't sure what I was gonna do with the shot of the football at first, until this event came to fruition; so really, it was coincidental and perfect timing that completed this design. The other parts of this design satirize events which had occurred in the other 3 games of the NFL Wild Card Round, announce the upcoming playoffs schedule, along with a shot at comedian Steve Harvey (no explanation needed there). I think I've spent more time on this design than I have on any other design yet, so to see how it turned out overall, I am fairly pleased. This project has also opened me up to many photoshop functions that I've never used before, which was eye opening. My favourite part of making this design was staying up until two A.M.. to finish it off. Originally in class, I used chalk to draw up a pretty nice ampersand from what I remember. However, I've unfortunately lost the picture and I have yet to retrieve it. So here is Ampersand 2.0.
I thought I would be a little creative with the ampersand here, so I ended up drawing an ampersand that does not resemble an ampersand too much; This could be a good thing or bad thing, but I think the design turned out fairly well. I was running low on creativity outside of the ampersand so I decided to write the first part of the word ampersand "AMPERS" within the large gap in the design (in order to complete the word 'ampers&.') |
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