1) I think my stance is pretty clear. I think by having money falling out of a piggy bank with the words "Tax Payers" makes it very clear where the money is coming from. Also since the money is falling into a prison that is blown up, it makes it clear that tax payers money is going into a over populated prison.
2) My poster isn't ideally what I had in mind when creating my thumbnail sketch but I am still feel it was successful. After changing certain aspects of the poster such as where the money is coming from and where the money is going, I created a better visual outcome.
3) My original thumbnail sketch had someone holding a wallet with money falling out into a normal looking prison full of many people. But after attempting to recreate that sketch I realized it didn't look as good as I imagined. So I changed the wallet to a piggy bank to display that the money is coming from tax payers banks. I also changed the original prison to a blown up prison with bars over it to emphasize the over population.
4) After reviewing the rubric, I believe that my project is the strongest in the design category. My combination of dark colors and meaningful text create a dark mood and effectively displays information about tax payers and over population of prisons. I think by writing tax payers in orange emphasizes the idea that tax payers are spending a lot of money on prisons. However I feel that I fall short in the skills and technique category. Although I used many tools that show my skills in illustrator, I feel that the image of the piggy bank is pixelated which means its not high quality. I struggled to find images of piggy banks that weren't pixelated and that that this image was the best one
5) I think the hardest aspect of this project was making sure my concept was clear and understandable. I had to change and edit many things in my poster to make sure my idea was as clear as possibly, but also creative and unique.
6) Technically, I struggled the most with making the prison look like it was expanding. I had to use many different tools to expand it and create many layers to make it look the way I envisioned it.
