Ethan Sayers
When starting a project of any form there are always “obstacles” you must conquer to get the job done. First things first, you need to decide the biggest question, “What is it that interests me?” and from there is where project begins. That’s only the beginning you then have to decide the following; who do I want to reach out to, how will I reach them and why do I want to reach those people with my project? Now that I have the wheels turning let us begin.
This project of ours began with our class going on a tour of the Ohio University campus and finding something that interested us. The Ridges caught my eye. Some may ask, “Why?” Well, Athens is my hometown, and I have heard so many tall tales and stories about the Ridges that I decided that the Ridges is where my project lay.
I decided to make five flyers about the Ridges. One being an “intro” flyer and the other four were for treatments that the Ridges used to try to heal the human mind. I tried to envision how the Ridges worked back in the glory years and contemplated what exactly they would use to try to promote to people. Then it hit me. The reason places like the Ridges were built was for people with a sickness in the brain to be kept. What would people like to see more than for those people to be healed? With any possibility for someone to be healed, or even a cure for the sick mind to be found, people would line up for miles. The purpose of my flyers over treatments was to reach an audience that was sympathetic for the sick or for people curious to see how the Ridges tried to heal the human mind. Granted, my preferred audience did fall through when the Ridges was closed down, so I just used my imagination in the way I pretended the Ridges was still up and running.
I made my flyers look older so that they would resemble the times of the Ridges. I changed the font to a somewhat cursive type because, in my mind, I picture cursive as a more of an older type of writing, and I thought it would fit. I added a small brief of what each treatment was, and then a picture of what the treatment would look like in a spectator’s perspective.
I decided to make my flyers with very little information on them. Granted, that may not look good if you’re grading it, but if you want to attract someone to something, you never give them the whole story. You bait them with something and get their curiosity aroused to bring them, or make them ask for more. Truthfully, if you read a poster saying come see a doctor perform four treatments on mentally sick people to try and help them, the thought of going would definitely cross your mind. In my peer review I was told my flyer was basic. In a way, that’s exactly what I was aiming for. I tried to add information to hook you, not make you read it and get bored and move on. In my mind, the lack of information is what will attract people; all they need is the right bait.
Now with everything you do or try to do, something will always go wrong. That’s just life. So of course, the night before its due, my printer decides not to work. The flyer I turned in looked nothing like the one I had originally designed on my laptop. The one I had was a lot more, now that I see the “new” one I guess we could say, modern, and strayed from the purpose of my original project. I included a picture that covered the whole page, and made it transparent, then wrote everything on it. It didn’t look like a historic flyer at all. I guess I could say that I lost my focus and just tried to make it “pop” with all the excessive pictures and what not. The one I turned in today went through a lot to get there. My laptop is synced to my printer, not to my mom’s. So I had to transfer my flyers to her laptop, which isn’t as new as mine, so of course it doesn’t have the programs mine had to have to be able to do what I did. Urg, technologies… don’t even get me started on that!
Anyway, on her laptop it’s just the typing and the pictures. None of my things from my laptop made it to hers except the skeleton of it all. I like the one I turned in more. However, the font on my laptop was a really cool cursive and I thought that definitely made the flyers “pop”. So, I guess all I would change about my flyers now is just the font. Everything else is how I had it going in my mind, and to me, that’s a success.
All in all, when it comes to any project, remember the basic “obstacles” you must conquer in order to made your project the way you want it. In my case, the older form of a flyer was the way I wanted to portray my project because it was over the Ridges, and that place is from a different era. However, if I were to do a project over, let’s say, Baker Center, then I would use a new colorful flyer because it’s new. So I guess with every project there are different ways to portray what you’re thinking. I hope you like my flyers and the way I went about doing my project. Thank you.
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