--> Historical relevance:
My first faux document was an article based on the war on women’s rights. I took that saying and made it a bit more literal. I wanted to show that it’s a very serious topic that society hasn’t seemed to be focusing on. It’s been going on for decades and I think it is incredibly important that people of not only the United States of America, but also people of the world, pay more attention. I took the tanks from the very recognizable photo at Tiananmen Square and superimposed them into a photo of women marching together during the women’s suffrage movement. I wanted to emphasize that women do have the means to make this into something more extreme than it already is. We don’t’ have literal tanks by any means, nor would I hope we would have to ever succumb to an actual war, but we have the power to fight for what is rightfully ours. Past generations fought for me to be able to go to school, vote, and even have a job. However there still hasn’t been a lift on the glass ceiling that keeps women from getting paid as much as men, and women of color get paid even less. We also have a bunch of men breathing down our necks about how we should treat our bodies and what we should do with them. Many expect us to stay home and be mothers to their children and take care of them. While society is growing to be more liberal and willing to help change these issues, it is safe to say that we are a long way from getting the rights we deserve at the rate it is going. That doesn’t mean we will stop fighting. We haven’t yet and we never will.
Successful elements:
Blending in the outside elements onto the photo worked nicely when adding some grain to them. The rat one needed just a little less grain than the one for the war on women. The tanks were more grainy than the photo of the women marching in the first place so I had to touch it up quite a bit. I had to mess around with hues and saturation a lot as well. For the rat photo I added some color overlay filters to make the lighting look more even, as well as to tint the newspaper page. I think my concept works really well in the war on women piece. I tried very hard to make it more literal to bring more attention to it. For the rat in NYC I flattened the image and used the auto features for tone, color, and contrast. That also helped out a lot with evening the colors.
Unsuccessful elements:
The thing I had the hardest time with was making the fonts on the fake newspapers look convincing. It was difficult to match the size and style to the ones that were already on the papers, mostly in the headings and subheadings. I couldn't figure out the spacing for the photo with the font on the rat in NYC to make it as convincing as I could so it doesn't have the best layout in my opinion. I also think I could have blended the rat into the buildings a little better. It wasn’t easy placing him behind so many tiny buildings in New York City. Trying to match the contrast and brightness and hues was also a struggle, specifically in the war on women. It also applies to the rat but that one wasn’t quite as difficult. Taking two older photos with slightly different hues even though they were black and white caused some issues because when you drop down the saturation it messes with the contrast in each one. It took a lot of tinkering around but I finally got it to look mostly convincing.
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