Wk #2 DYNAMICS OF DESIGN
For this weekās exercise I have chosen the movie Pride & Prejudice with Kiera Knightley. Ā Thereās no telling how many times I watched the movie and enjoyed it so much that I later read the book. As much as I love the story and the book, itās important to note that I donāt like any other movie version ā just this one. Ā My strong attraction is the time period, coupled with fantastic dialogue and the story creates a great tension between two foolish characters that come together in the end. Ā The title exactly conveys what this story is about- pride and prejudice, something we can all relate to. Ā
For this exercise I drew inspiration from Kiddās section on color theory. Ā I donāt think the original cover needed fixing, I love it as is as it has great type, colors and photos, both in focus and out of focus. Ā The serif type shows the words āpride āand āprejudiceā the same size and color, perhaps conveying theyāre the same with a larger ampersand in a romantic rose hue in the middle touching both words to make a connection. Ā The photo has Lizzie looking back at Mr. Darcy ready to break out in smile and blurred Mr. Darcy is shown waiting to learn Lizzieās reaction. Ā The colors are soft, natural warm and have a historic feel. So I didnāt think I could do anything to improve the image and instead tried a variation to undo the whole feel to show how important all the elements used were.
I took the photos from the internet and used the website Pixlr to make the photos black and white and then to recolor the lips red. Ā Kidd in his book took an image and made it black and white and then used color in the letters of the type to make the composition work. Ā I choose not to recreate that, but instead to use dramatic colors like found in my Slack post with The Godfather book cover. Ā I chose two photos that didnāt necessarily convey a story. Theyāre both the same size, focus, looking the same way and their emotions are not clear. Ā Using Word I assembled the images with the text, choosing a bland sans serif type all the same size and making it black and the ampersand red to stand out. Ā The red ampersand was in line with the red lips, which I did like. Ā The choice to make the lips red was to evoke the notion that this could be a story about love or dialogue. Ā Omitted in my version is the bottom photo, I think it was in the original mainly to balance the design and enhance the colors used.
I think using color in a different way is a good effect and would work for other genres of stories (like horror) but is not a good element for this story.















