Pessimism Helps (Post No. 1)

Even though i wish that i was an optimistic person, by nature I'm a pessimistic individual. I always look at the worst case scenario to the outcomes of anything i plan to do. This characteristic is something that pushed me to work harder in school as well as draw my attention to photography and how important images are in our society.

I recently took a desktop publishing class and learned the history and development of printing. one thing that truly stood out is how important fonts are in posters and fliers. For example, 90% of all fonts in movie posters come from the Helvetica font. So with that piece of information we were assigned to make a movie poster which had to look somewhat real. Below is a picture of the poster I made. Everything is my work except the idea of attaching wings to the elephant, which was taken from a tutorial i saw. However, the reason i was pleased with the outcome is because how crucial the fonts are to the poster.

So who do I think I am regarding the Media? Of course I consider myself a consumer but learning the in and outs of media helps me to separate things based on their ability to benefit me. I can never say I can avoid the media because that's almost impossible, but I can at least become a smart consumer.