This final project was to take a choice song, and create four images that delt with the content and lyrics of the song.The song I chose was 'Oh Gypsy' by a band called Frenchy and the Punk, formerly known as The Gypsy Nomads. The song is done with an acoustic guitar, and hand drums. The lyrics talk of a young, Christian girl, who is waiting and wanting for a lover. She has waited so long, and can't stand it any more, so she goes to a Gypsy to see if she can user her powers of foresight to tell when when she will meet her forever lover. The Gypsy looks into her crystal ball, and sees only the girl, so she moves on to tarot cards, and the cards that are revealed to her, speak that the male lover the girl was seeking will never arrive, because her future lover, is the Gypsy herself.
I created the first image, knowing that a main part of the song is about the Gypsy, as the chorus is the girl pleading with the Gypsy to reveal the hidden secrets about her lover. The words 'Oh Gypsy' are the most repeated in the song, so I chose those words because of their importance. For the picture, I wanted to keep up the theme of lots of bright colours, as those are what follow Gypsys, so I took the colorful painting, and then messed with the hue/saturation, and burned and dodged a little. The black background was used to accent the bright colours.The second image I created knowing that a crystal ball would be a pretty obvious image for any viewer to recognize of an item that belonged to a Gypsy if I created it with type. I used the colors from the picture for the base, to make brassy/gold looking feet, and put the outer glow on the text that makes up the crystal ball to help it look more mystical and a little more solid without just making a massive amount of text (granted, I do have quite a bit as it is). I was also hoping to make it look a little... mesmorizing.
The first three images were created in Adobe Photoshop. For the first one, the background was created using a large, soft brush with bright colors. The text was simply typed up, and then warped. The faded layer was warped differently, and then the opacity lowered.For the second graphic, I put the Gypsy painting on a layer above the black background layer, and then put the text between them. While holding alt, I clicked between the two layers in the layer panel to create a Clipping Mask. Then on the painting layer, I went into Image > Adjustments > Hue/Saturation and used the burn and dodge tools.For the third image, I had a picture of a crystal ball on a stand. Using the ellipse tool, and clicking the 'path' option, I created a circular path around the main shape of the crystal ball. Using the text tool, I typed the line I wanted to make up the crystal ball, and copy-pasted until the circle was complete. I copyed that circle of text and shrunk it, and rotated it a little bit for every new layer of text creating the ball. Using the pen tool, I created the paths for the base, and then copy-pasted the text from the crystal ball.Finally, for the fourth image, this one created in Adobe Illustrator, I started with the white/purple circular gradient. Purple to me has always been a colour of Gypsys, since Hunchback of Notre Dame's character Esmeralda, so that's why I chose purple. Using the ellipse tool, and a one point stroke, I created the black circle outline, as if it was another crystal ball. Using a charcole brush tool, I created the whispy looking blue smoke lines. Chosing the important part of the repeated chorus, I used the Arc effect to make them follow the curve of the crystal ball, as if they were a part of the ball itself, and to create some dimention. The change of font was to link the word 'Gypsy' back to the first image (as it is the same font) and to accent the word 'love'. (Also, if you look in the middle of the ball, in the smoke, there are two abstract heart shapes in the smoke; that happened totally by accident.)
Five: Created in photoshop. I wanted to show a scene from the eyes of the girl walking up to the Gypsy for her fortune. I those three images; the background and caravan, the Gypsy, and the table with the ball and tarot cards. I saturated each image, and for the table, I warped and used the perspective tools so that it looked more in place. Image links from Google!TableGypsyCaravan
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