Final Project

This is my final project. The hardest part for me in this project was that I love things to be simple. Being that this is a collage and there is a lot going on, I tried to make it as organized and readable as possible, but with still some uniqueness and creativity involved.  Part of the requirement was to use 4 different types of material. I went outside in my yard and gathered a bunch of different sticks, cut them, and hot glued them along the base of the foam board giving it an "earthy" type feel which I was going for. I then took a white foam board and traced the outline of africa and took an exacto knife and carved it out and colored it in with colored pencils and hot glued it to the top. I then took 2 water bottles and hot glued them to the right side of the board showing that these people are in need for water. I then took a blown up version of the picture of sticks I took in my front yard and used it as a back drop for some of my main pictures I got off AP images. I added my other images I took showing the "donate' aspect. I then typed up a short paragraph about what is going on in Africa and how people can help and I put a wooden frame around it to draw peoples attention. I then added images I found the most powerful. As you can see in the top right corner there is a picture of someone in the military with a gun and I made the picture black and white and the just made him colored showing that they are the ones taking over and leaving the other people in the "dark." I went to Michaels and got these really cool white foam letters and I used those to demonstrate what exactly this collage is about and to get the message across. Last, I hot glued my foam board on top of a wooden donation station I created and wrote "Donate" on so people can easily just drop money and coins in it securely.

I found this project actually very fun to do and I'm VERY pleased with how it turned out. Although it took a lot of time, it really paid off. I'm excited to see what my other classmates came up with.