MiniProject 2

While I was working on this project, I thought of another organization I might have done, if it was local enough. It's called Edun Live, and the only reason I know about it is because the bookstore keeps getting shipments of t-shirts from them that do not sell. At all. So I thought it would be interesting to promote Edun Live in hopes that that would encourage students to go buy t-shirts. (I definitely have worked there too long ^__^.) But it's way too late to change now, so I shall stick with Susan G. Komen For the Cure.
Anyways, this project gave me two ideas that I might be able to use for the big unit project. My mini project was prettty simple: a photo of a race event, with the middle group of people all in pink, and faded out over that was a decorated pink ribbon. It wasn't the exact ribbon logo - it was all one shade of pink and had some swirls on either side. I blurred the people on the outside of the first photo and sharpened the ones wearing pink in the middle. Then I used Burn, I think, to darken the right side of the photo. It was kind of supposed to show three stages or types: first is the average person, not really involved (blurred, left side), then there's the aware ones who are trying to make a difference (sharpened, middle, pink), and then there's the ones who either don't care or who have been hurt by the carelessness/uncaring/whatever of the people on the left (blurred, darkened, right side). I hope it came close to portraying something like that, even if it came across as simply healthy vs. unheathly.
Back to the ideas: I liked how the ribbon looked, faded over the whole image. I know we can't use an actual logo, but what about someone else's similar creation? I shall ask tomorrow. If that won't work, then maybe just a pale pink tinge would work, or maybe a bow or something like that.
Second, I remember talking to several people about their ideas, and something they had in common was use of color vs blacks and whites. I don't think I want my images to be B&W completely, but I think the result I got using Burn for the mini project was pretty cool. I think it could send a pretty strong signal about the seriousness of breast cancer.
So those are two things I want to try and incorporate into my unit project.