Font Poem

For me, picking out the quote to put in the font poem was a tough decision. I chose two other quotes before settling on a line from a song called ‘We Belong Together’ by Irving Caesar. The line, “ we belong together, like birds on a feather, together we fly” was stuck in my head after watching the Movie Grey Gardens where the song was sang several times. I was trying to illustrate, through different fonts and different effects I discovered in photoshop, the emotional aspect of the words in the quote. The words that jumped out at me, I tried to make them jump out on the page by using bolder fonts and effects. The words that really stuck out to me were "together," "Birds," "feather," and "fly".

The major thing I struggled with during this project was figuring out how to lay out the page in an artistic way to create a fitting design for the lyrics that would stand out. I played around with the fonts and changed the word, "together," to make the letters actually closer together with a bold and sharp edge to it. I had trouble picking out which kinds of fonts to pick for the specific words because at first I made every single word a different style and it took away from the quote and looked to chaotic. I decided to stick with a balance of similar styles that would compliment each other.

Since I am not familiar with photoshop, every part of this assignment was new for me. I learned a lot about photoshop during this project, such as how to warp text, change background colors, and merge layers. I had a lot of fun being creative, I even accidently discovered how to paint butterflies on the background of my poem. This added a lot to the poem because the song is about flying away. This was by far the most enjoyable part of the project for me.

If I had more time I would have definitely tried to add more effects to my font poem. I would have inverted the colors to make it black on white to give the poem more depth and possibly even made it more colorful. Although I came into this project with no clue of the possibilities of photoshop, I am most proud that I was able to figure it out for myself and create a creative piece of art.