Completed booklet

ruf book

Dummy book

I changed my book concept...rather than doing tango drama, I have decided to do a profile on some of the tango dance instructors in Ashland.  At this point, here's what it looks like.

Book Proposal

Tango Drama

I dance the tango, and have found a number of romantic dramas ensuing within the Ashland "tango scene."  After-all, what would be tango without fully developed dramatic appeal.   I have decided to take it upon myself the duty of documenting some of the most and enticing drama relations within this beloved community.

To start, I have considered creating a few cartoon characters, and accentuating some of the characters most prominent features.  Here is a rather bland example of perhaps one of my characters that I have created using photoshop and illustrator.  I may opt to make create this book in a comic book style.

poster

Based on the photographs and ideas I had in my head, I chose to do a mock band poster and a propaganda poster. 

Layers became a very critical part of this project for me, mainly because I needed to be able to view various images against one another to see if they would work well enough together for the composition.  I also used the posterise adjustment layer on both posters to limit the colors on the photographs I used.

One technique I attempted to employ to catch peoples eye was the use of red and yellow (bright colors) in contrast to dark colors.   Just to make it interesting, I decided to write my band poster in Russian, although I know nothing of the language and culture.