Font Poem

I choose this saying because for one, it is from a musical...surprise! I am a musical theater freak and this lyric comes from a song from the musical Hair. I recently worked on that show backstage and this song not only was super powerful and moving, but it was filled with words that i felt were great for a font poem because they were able to let you play around. The poem has words like thunder, neon, wind-song, city, gutter, glitter, etc. and i felt those words i could really show in different fonts and it just gave me a lot of room do experiment and do new things.

I chose the fonts I did because i felt that they captured the words' connotation. just a few for example. Truth was gaudy text which gave it a very honest and colonial feel and i felt that that kind of script delivered the message the best. Wind-song was shell Roundhand to give the word a wind-swept feeling. Thunder was Shuriken Boy to give the word the gracked, rounded feeling that thunder has. Neon was Serpintine with a multicolored glow to give it the reel of neon. Gutter was Strumpt with open words to make it feel tubey and dirty, especially with the brownish color. All my fonts were chosen sort of at random since i played around...alot to get a feeling of how the fonts and colors and such reflected the words and meanings of the poem.

I arranged the words the way I did so that they added to the feeling of the poem and were also legible. all of the follor phrases i had following each other on different layers to express that feeling. with lovers eyes, again, the in younr went almost through lovers to show in and i felt the juxtaposition of the words in that phrase added a lover feeling and passion. with down to the gutter and up to the glitter is is pretty self explanitory, i had to words going down and up to follor the path of the words. I had into the going into the city which was blazing broght, and lies was on the bottom of the page, flat with truth above it to express where truth lies. all the placement was established to make a flowing font poem while delivering a message, and to be creative aswell. I really wanted the viewer to be intrigued and wowed.

I didn't really encounter a lot of problems with this project as I did with the contact sheet. This was really eslf-explanatory and just dealt with trying out different fonts. the hardest part of the whole project thoughw as probably dealing with layers. instead of being able to grab something and move it, i had to go to that particular layer and tediously move letter by letter and word by word into place to form what the font poem looks like now. it was very slow work but resulted in something I am really happy with.

I am most proud of just accomplishing this and making something that i think is unique and beautiful. I did a lot of pressing buttons and hoping that it worked for most of the words and looked nice. and it all worked out. I loved being able to find fonts that reflected words in my poem and just creating what i did. If i had more time, I would take alook over everything I did to the poem so I oculd use these tools for next time this kind of thing turns up. I am very pleased with how my poem ended up.