I created an Aerial Dance poster. Aerial dance is a large part of my life right now, and so I wanted to show an aspect of it. Aerial dance has three popular categories to it: lyra, pole dancing, and silks. The poster features outlines of myself doing Lyra, also known as aerial hoop. I created the poster by taking three photos of myself doing lyra. For each picture, I used the magic lasso tool and outlined my body and the hoop. I then took the paint bucket tool and filled in the finished result with black after using the magic lasso tool. The next step was to make sure all of the blacks matched, so I used the tool that looks like an eye dropper to get the exact shade of black and adjust the color of each outline. I created the text box for “Arial Dance”, later corrected to “Aerial Dance” for proper spelling, and aligned it with one of the dancer outlines. Then I moved the other two dancer outlines to fit underneath the text, as though they were hanging from the letters. I struggled to find a background that I liked, but eventually settled on a picture of an audience that I found on Pixabay. The link for this picture on the website is listed below.
My peers suggested that I move the lettering to a lighter area in the photo and choose another lettering style altogether because the one I initially picked was hard to read. Another suggestion they mentioned was to move the bottom left dancer out of the crowd so that it could stand out a bit more. They also suggested just readjusting the dancers altogether so that they looked more evenly placed on the poster. The final suggestion given said to add more text and clear up the lines around the dancer outlines because they were a little blurry and imperfect.
In order to revise the poster after receiving feedback, I separated out the layers and redrew the dancer outlines using the brush tool and eraser tool to cleam up the lines of the dancers. I then changed the text for “Aerial Dance” to one that was more fluid and easy to read, and respelled Aerial to be correct. Next, I moved the text higher on the poster and readjusted the dancers to fit around it. For two of the dancer outlines, I used the brush tool to add in the “chain” portion at the top of the hoop that I had initially cut out. I placed the dancer outlines underneath the letter as though it was hanging from the text. Finally I added in text at the bottom right-hand side of the poster, as suggested, to let the viewers know that they could “Join ADS”, known as the Aerial Dance Society. “Meetings are Saturdays, 12-2 pm in Chinook 30”. This club really does meet at that day, time, and location. I am an instructor for ADS.
Pixabay, (2006). Web. September 14, 2018.
Sloane Coe C210 
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