After my search, I ended up having two concepts. One concept I had was to take two different images and mesh them in order to have one really interesting blend.
My first attempt was this:
The doll I thought was interesting and gave a good reference to "Little Women". The country scene I cropped and filtered on Photoshop with a brush stroke filter.
The only problem with this particular poster idea was that the background took attention away from the doll and everything looked similarly toned. I played around again with another image:
This image to me was amazing. It showed the great Victorian style of the dresses of that period along with a semi-love story (like the one Jo and Laurie shared). It used brilliant color and just spoke "Little Women" all around. I took it to photoshop. First I used the marquee tool to wrap the entire image. Then I moved the image so that you could only see half of the girl's face and the guy's arm (adding some mystery). Then I copied and pasted parts of the wood, warped it, and made it longer. The result was this:
This is the sample that Nathan will be giving the Quincy Musical Theatre so they can give him the go-ahead and we'll be able to add more.
Nathan also let me grab of choices of fonts that I thought would be great for the poster. Out of a list of 12 that I compiled, we both really like the Riesling font that appears on the poster. It was classy and really fit the flow of the poster.
Nathan and I worked on manipulating the font on illustrator, adding the squiggle on to the "n" and changing the size of the capital "L" and "W" so as to add interest. Now all we would have to do - once we get the ok - is to add the dates and information onto the poster.
As always it was a pleasure working with Nathan and I'm glad he allowed me to have so much control over the poster.
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