Final project by Lorraine Bailey

For my final project, I decided to create a series of posters to promote traveling to Paris. With the title "Paris Adventure" I wanted to bring out the fun side of Paris, and with the sentence "fall in love," I wanted to invite people to both fall in love with the city and its uniqueness as well as find love in Paris: The romantic city. I used a light and soft pink to match the idea of romance. I decided to use a smaller font for "fall in love" and making it less visible so it would come as a second idea: first come explore Paris then fall in love. For the background I used pictures I took while I was in Paris last summer. I chose places that are famous and easily recognizable. I wanted to keep the overall design simple because there was already a lot going on in the picture itself with the architecture of the buildings and different colors, angles, and elements. In the composition, I played with balance, rule of third and angles. For the colors, I decided to use soft faded colors to convey a feeling of a "soft romantic dream ". I applied a filter called "cinemascope" which gives that unreal, pale color. I then added the silhouette in Photoshop. I reshaped them and made them more contrasted. I wanted the silhouette to stay as simple as possible so they could be seen as anonymous couples and give the viewer the opportunity to picture themselves as one of the silhouettes.