Thursday, December 4, 2014

I Am Legend Monologue Book Critique.

For our individual critiques of our typography books, I took a look at Erica's I Am Legend monologue. Overall, I believe that Erica had a great sense of space in her pages and every page worked well with each other. However, I do wish that I had the final copy because it is in grayscale since it is the in-progress copy. I had asked her what color/colors she had chosen and Erica told me that it had black and a rich, darker red. I think this works well because of the monologue from I Am Legend. Black and red are very intense colors and I feel like that fit the overall theme of it. I think that the strongest page in this is "literally cure it by injecting music and love into people's lives", the third spread. It looks like she did a great job of hierarchy on this spread, enlarging the "cure it" as its' main point and emphasizing "music" and "love" to make it slightly bigger than the normal text. It does, however, have a little bit of awkward spacing between "into people's lives" but it works in a sense. Another spread that works well is her fourth one. By making "peace rally", "gunman", and "down" bigger and bolder, it gives it an amazing movement through the spread. It makes your eyes move from right, left and to the bottom right. Erica's eighth spread really good but the only problem I can see with it is having the "he said" slanted and in the middle. I'm not exactly sure why it would need to be slanted and I feel like it may work better up in the top left corner. I found her ninth spread to be a little awkward because of the left side of the page. The way I read it was "are a not day taking off". I talked to her about it and she said that Professor Mata mentioned that most people read the bolder words first and the smaller ones second. I can understand the reasoning behind this because this is true but I saw it a little differently. I read straight down. It makes sense on why she did this and it works that way but I saw it straight down and it didn't make sense. Overall, I think Erica's book is aesthetically pleasing to the eye though I do wish I saw the final product in time for the final critique.

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